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...Remele used to bring his sketch pad to restaurants with his parents. When he tired of adult conversations, he drew dresses. "I named them things like ‘the Samantha’ and ‘the Elizabeth,’" he says. Remele had an only-child-like upbringing since his brothers and sister were much older—"I was raised by my sister, her mom, and female babysitters. I’ve always been around women, surrounded by women. I’m more comfortable interacting with women." (Whitman, perched on an adjoining couch, adds pointedly...
...fascinated with mechanization and also repelled by it, often used geometric shapes in their art. Another photograph shows Francis Picabia at the wheel of an open-topped sports car. Picabia used the same image in an assemblage also on view. He pasted the photograph on canvas, drew a similar sketch of himself at the wheel and titled the work The Merry Widow. It was not meant to make sense. After all, the world, bloodied by the first modern war, hardly seemed a rational place. The Dada movement rejected history, literature, bourgeois values and, of course, artistic conventions...
...collection in three parts of photographs amassed and until now collecting dust like most of the university’s gathering in a Harvard depository. Hidden from tourists and casual museum-goers only interested in the celebrity of Van Gogh’s self-portrait and the Bernini sketch collection, the photography is surprisingly compelling, with emotionally raw prints that compose a time capsule of social changes and events of the 20th century. Portraits of children cringing at their first haircut, tuxedo-clad men diving head first into a fountain, an elderly couple standing by their piano and women gathered...
...bound; they're examined and haggled over; they proceed across the canvas to be flogged onboard the boat that will carry them to the slave ship offshore. Eyre Crowe's Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond Virginia (1861), is less overt in its condemnation of the trade. Composed from a sketch of a real slave market, it shows neatly dressed women and children sitting on a bench. The normality of the scene - one of the women is even smiling - packs a punch. A contemporary critic claimed "the appalling guilt of that accursed system was never more successfully depicted." However progressive that...
...choose art? Why did he abruptly leave Milan for Rome in 1592, in what would be the first episode of a long series of abrupt departures? Little is known of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, for he did not like to write; he did not even draw, or sketch. Or, if he did, he destroyed all traces, as if he had been afraid of someone following him, trying to figure...