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...Picasso's art and modernism generally: Les Demoiselles d'A vignon. His eclecticism -another of the virtuoso's traits-produced incessant raids on other styles, from Pompeian murals, 17th century Dutch etchings and Ingres drawings to Dogon masks and Mogul miniatures. Few great artists since Rembrandt had amassed, and used, such a hybrid pile of objects from art or nature as Picasso; variety was his sauna. He had a mysterious capacity, now documented through an almost limitless range of motifs and graphic flourishes, to become whatever caught his attention...
...painting, he knew what he was doing. There are no waste strokes. In A City on a Rock everything just falls apart." As a result, Fahy concluded that the picture was not by Goya but by Eugenic Lucas, a 19th century imitator. Or in the case of Rembrandt's long-admired Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, says John Walsh, a curator in the European painting department...
...childhood. But the old corn is true to life and the reason for the "moral" with which Aesop ended all his fables. There is a great deal more satisfaction in actually doing something than there is in just admiring something someone else has done. Everyone has heard of Rembrandt, but who knows or cares about John Jones, who spends crates of crud to cross the ocean and gaze uncomprehendingly at his pictures...
...novel: I write short stories to see where a novel may lie. All together that adds up to four or five years of work." Many of the places, people and situations he studied for The Tenants also provided material for his next volume of short stories. Rembrandt's Hat, which will come out this spring. Many cities consider him a better short story writer than a novelist. "I prefer short stories, because it's up to me to determine where I'm at," he comments...
...primarily research that turned Rupert's fledgling business into an empire. While puttering in his factory laboratory in 1952, he devised what he claims was the world's first king-sized filter-tip cigarette, Rembrandt, which was an immediate success. Since then, Rupert claims his company was first to come out with menthol-filtered and multifiltered cigarettes...