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...knows "there are vitamins even in garbage," Picasso has parlayed inventiveness into a sizable garbage can. Art always contains elements of invention, but invention is not necessarily art. The final caricature by this apocryphal "genius" is the comparison of himself with Raphael...
Skeletons on the. Beach. In room after room, the current exhibition breathtakingly displays the energy with which Picasso investigated one direction after another. He briefly turned back to classicism ("They say I draw better than Raphael, and probably they are right," he once remarked), then in what amounted to a burlesque of classicism created such monumental figures as Mother and Child, which only superb talent saves from becoming ludicrous. In his Three Dancers he not only bade farewell to his period of stage designing with the Ballet Russe (where he met and married his one legal wife, Olga Koklova, mother...
...RAPHAEL: And I, Raphael, shall be present when he dies, and I shall stand at his grave...
...contemporary of Raphael's, had a Renaissance man's gusto and love of high living. His checkered career, which began with a scandal over his civil-service exam (he came out first, then was disgraced when it was discovered that a friend had bribed the examiner), was spent between wild roistering and intense painting periods. His Gentleman and Attendants borrows T'ang Dynasty props, slims down the earlier plump models to suit Ming tastes, and comes off as a triumph in space and contrasts. But T'ang Yin could not resist slyly mocking the mood...
...sufficient funds for art restoration, Italian Fine Arts superintendents have twice gone out on strike. Last week the government finally promised some emergency help: $32 million as a first move toward "the safeguarding of our artistic heritage." But with 1,270 churches and chapels 720 palazzos and villas (including Raphael's Roman villa), 200 fortresses and 120 masterpieces (including those by Titian and Tintoretto) in need of immediate attention, at least $100 million was needed to cover only the most urgent requests...