Tag Archives: Pablo Picasso

fracturing the bow

In spite of distortion, objects in an expressionistic painting are still recognizable. However, in abstraction, objects tend to lose their identity as objects and take on an existence as pure form. An example is George Braque’s “Musical Forms” which is … Continue reading

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meeting of kings

Unlike most of the sculptors of his era, William King rejoiced in the human figure as a subject. The witty caricatures with the long and lean results were departures from the “form divine” but their exaggerations emphatically illustrate la comedie … Continue reading

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which picasso?

What made Picasso unique in the history of art is the degree to which he became what may be described as an orchestrator of the public attitude toward his work, expertly creating sympathetic responses to his various successive styles. These … Continue reading

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picasso: life as phases

Picasso was always, like a playwright, constantly “in dialogue” with his audience, ever needing the audience, sensing it and feeling it out like a lover pursuing the object of his affections. He was, in many ways, a metteur en scene, … Continue reading

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eureka process

How does a scientist make his discoveries? How does a poet find his metaphors? And for that matter, how does a chimpanzee get at a banana? Arthur Koestler said it is done through the Eureka process. The act of creation, … Continue reading

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art for the sake of creative destruction

Consciousness of the all-mighty dollar is pretty pervasive, even overwhelming. In the modern art world it informs aesthetic and spiritual content like everything else in society, conquering art such that art itself is a pure commodity, a sub-species of money … Continue reading

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darwin: throwing the dice at blind chance

…To some, the implications of Darwin’s theory were negative and desolating. The whole earth no longer proclaimed the glory of the Lord. Paradoxically, in revealing the closeness of man’s links with the rest of creation, Darwin seemed to have cutt … Continue reading

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what is that “enigmatic power?”

Andre Malraux sought the key to man’s fate by a philosophical study of all the world’s art… …All of these people are touched by “that enigmatic power which unites for us in a common presence the statues of the most … Continue reading

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the breathless historical present

Andre Malraux sought the key to man’s fate by a philosophical study of all the world’s art in his Metamorphosis of the Gods… …Writing almost continuously in the breathless, historical present, Malraux began by reporting a fact: the discovery during … Continue reading

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cliffhangers: ledge walkers

Between a rock and a hard place. In free-fall without a net. On one hand, the consumer is exhorted to spend; to glue themselves to mass popular culture where every inch of space, every second of time is induced to … Continue reading

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