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...many who have seen photographs of it. The gift is a large (about 71 ft. by 12 ft.) portrait of His Holiness, painted in a semi-abstract mode, in which the Pope's emaciated, suffering face and folded hands are the focus of splintering shafts of light. German Painter Ernst Guenter Hansing, 42, sketched his subject during twelve protracted stays at the Vatican over a period of 21 years. Though he never had a private sitting, he was given a front-row seat at papal ceremonies in which to work. "I wanted more than just a picture...
...borne the punishing weight of answering and filtering Picasso's mail, keeping his clippings up to date, dealing with the telephone, the cataloguing, the buying of food, supplies, canvas, paint and, on top of it all, calming the nerves of a high-strung and tetchy nonagenarian painter. They have produced no children. Jacqueline has a 22-year-old daughter from her previous marriage, who often visits them. But Picasso's isolation from his own offspring is nearly absolute. His first son, Paul, is now 50 and lives in Paris; his daughter by Marie...
...Modern? But whether Picasso's reputation will survive in its present form is an open question. Sir Anthony Blunt, one of England's leading art historians, flatly declares that "Picasso is no longer a modern painter," and that "after 1945, he ceased to hold the leading position in modern painting." Says Manhattan Dealer Leo Castelli: "Picasso is not an important force in modern painting now. But he is still an incredibly important figure because of what he's been. He's not just a great painter. He's one of the towering figures of this...
Inflated Blues. Picasso's immature work has benefited greatly from hindsight and feedback. The slides flick, the familiar images succeed one another-the young painter chewing his way through Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Gauguin, Munch, Steinlen and a host of other influences that crowded upon him in Barcelona and, after 1900, in Paris. There is no consolidated style in Picasso's career until, aged 21, he starts moving into the Blue and Pink periods...
...Greek pediment and the Roman battle sarcophagus than to that of the Kondor Division, whose bombs demolished Guernica. But it remains a passionate and epic work, and it was Picasso's sole politically effective gesture. The best comment on Picasso's later (and continuing) role as a painter laureate to the French Communist Party, which he joined in 1944, was made by Salvador Dali: "Picasso is a Spaniard-so am I! Picasso is a genius-so am I! Picasso is a Communist-nor am I!" For Picasso's political naiveté is extreme, and his role...