Word: steins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What are these paintings when placed in the Stein context and what is the Stein context...
...director of the show, Margaret Potter, associate curator of Painting and Sculpture, has realized her contextual statement in the belief that the Stein context defines itself; she has not emphasized the intellectual milieu of the Steins by clarifying their ideas about these works, but instead has arranged the show primarily by chronology, evoking a historical document with an assumption of intellectual history in the visual and literary arts of the Stein era. The catalogue clarifies some of the literary trends and ideas, but the visual thinking is limited. Still, there are a few excellent examples of visual clarification...
GERTRUDE'S interest in Cubism is one of the strongest points illustrated by an effective use of context. We can see fascinating studies of early Cubism in the Picassos from 1907 to 1914. And a Cezanne apple contrasted with the Picasso apple next to it evokes Gertrude Stein's imagery: the apple turns round and round, unlimited in space. Studies for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and for Nude with Drapery show how Picasso was beginning to juxtapose dark and light without shadowing or shading-the result, a differentiation in spatial positions: a new technique, a new space...
Someone in the Stein family obviously liked Picasso and Matisse; this is made clear by over 100 Picassos in the show, and Matisse seems a close second with about 70 works. But is it significant only to know that the Steins liked these artists? What is it that the Steins liked about them? And did each of the members of the family like the same artists...
...fascinating historical piece of evidence is Picasso's Still Life with Calling Card (1914) showing a calling card imprinted with the two names: Miss Gertrude Stein and Miss Alice B. Toklas, living at 27 rue de Fleurus...