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MANOLO-Schoelkopf, 825 Madison Ave. at 68th. During their youth in Barcelona, Manolo buddied with Picasso, later followed him to Paris. But while cubism whirled around him, Manolo turned to classicism, recalled his native Catalonia with slim-limbed toreros and squat, chunky senoritas. On display are 23 stone and bronze sculptures, plus drawings and watercolors. Through...
...68th. During their youth in Barcelona, Manolo buddied with Picasso, later followed him to Paris. But while cubism whirled around him. Manolo turned to classicism, recalled his native Catalonia with slim-limbed toreros and squat, chunky senoritas. On display are 23 stone and bronze sculptures, plus drawings and watercolors. Through...
...that he painted oftenest (see following pages). Her presence borrowed color from the walls of her bath. While fauvism, cubism, even dadaism and surrealism bypassed Bonnard, he kept his eye on nature and his wife's place in it. To many, through the 1930s and 1940s, Bonnard was oldfashioned, a man preoccupied with outer nature rather than inner psychology. His art seemed wishy-washy, facile, banal in its apparent sentimentality...
Lilies-Water, Tiger, Calla. The style had its origins in pre-Raphaelite painting, flourished in Toulouse-Lautrec's famous posters of Jane Avril, and was murdered by the cold cubism of Weimar's Bauhaus. Now it seems oldfashioned, yet it marked a rebellion against the fussy, historically eclectic aspects of Victorian art. It found its forms in nature: the lily (water, tiger and calla), clinging vines, leaves of all kinds, jellyfish, polyps-a whole botanical garden of gentle, curving shapes...
...world looks back to the other styles of art nouveau's time-Fauvism, cubism, futurism, expressionism-with an interest that is chiefly academic. But art nouveau was at heart a designer's style; to look back at it is to arouse a warmly human desire to exploit once again, in modern design, its oddly disturbing colors, its writhing forms, its almost erotic character...