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Epic Images. Oldenburg has a unique power to perceive things both organically and schematically - even his own face, as in his Symbolic Self-Portrait with Equals, 1969. "The face is a cutout, like a mask, which is past ed on the diagram of objects . . . One side shows the kindly aspect of the art ist; the other, his brutal one. The body is introduced in the image of the face via the representation of the body's juices - the tongue (bringing out the insides) - which doubles as a heart and a foot . . . The ice bag on the head signifies that...
...Personal. There was a lot of impressionism in Vuillard, for he enjoyed what the older painters liked: the panoply of color in a new-minted atmosphere. But pattern was the core of his work, most dramatically in the 1890s, when he produced a run of paintings, including some remarkable self-portrait studies, that anticipated the later Matisse in their schematization of form. But he remained stubbornly unaffiliated; even within the Symbolist group he was somewhat an outsider to the letter of their theory since, among other points of difference, he thought Gauguin's pictures "pedantic." Vuillard never allowed method...
...habits. His portraits of Olga when they were in love (32) are among the few completely insipid Picassos that exist. As the marriage disintegrated, the great figure paintings and still lifes (31, 36, 37) began alternating with a sequence of brutally distorted female heads. Woman's Head and Self-Portrait, 1929 (38) is nothing less than a pictorial act of revenge: the savage, angular profile of Olga, with its chisel teeth and spike tongue about to devour the undistorted silhouette of Picasso's own profile. Its delirium is prolonged, in a different way, in the Surrealist beach scenes...
...Jugglers-1901; 5. La Vie-1903; 6. Woman Ironing-1904; 7. At the Lapin Agile-1905; 8. The Family of Saltimbanques-1905; 9. Boy with a Pipe-1905; 10. Boy Leading a Horse-1905-06; 11. La Fillette à la Boule-1905; 12. Standing Female Nude- 1906; 13. Self-Portrait-1906; 14. Portrait of Gertrude Stein -1906; 15. Study for Demoiselles d'Avignon...
...Portrait of Olga in an Armchair-1917; 33. By the Sea-1920; 34. Three Women at the Spring-1921; 35. Sleeping Peasants-1919; 36. Three Dancers-1925; 37. Plaster Head and Limbs-1925; 38. Woman's Head and Self-Portrait-1929; 39. Bather Playing with a Ball-1932; 40. Girl Before a Mirror-1932; 41. Nude on a Black Couch-1932; 42. Weeping Woman-1937; 43. Still Life with Red Bull's Head-1938; 44. Woman with Green Hat-1939; 45. Night Fishing at Antibes-1939; 46. Cat Eating a Bird...