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...very idea of avant-garde activity was of something "special," open to small coteries of people who needed to know a lot of other art in order to appreciate the subtleties of the New. Modern art looked esoteric because it was. To see how a cubist Braque or Picasso from 1911 connected to the realities of modern Life, with its quick shuttle of multiple viewpoints, its play between solids and transparency, its odd tensions between signs, letters and numbers on the one hand and extreme painterly ambiguity on the other, demanded the kind of sympathetic attention that very few people...
...still there, but they no longer connect or function as a live whole. The modernist achievement will continue to affect culture for another century at least, because it was large, so imposing and so irrefutably convincing. But its dynamic is gone, and our relationship to it is becoming archaeological. Picasso is no longer a contemporary, or a father figure; he is a remote ancestor, who can inspire admiration but not opposition. The age of the New, like that of Pericles, has entered history. - By Robert Hughes Drawn from his newly published book The Shock of the New (Knopf...
Françoise Gilot, 59, painter who was once Pablo Picasso's mistress, on the difference between Picasso and Henri Matisse: "Matisse was as great as his art. That was not the case with Picasso. If you had to be around him much, you suffered...
...addition to the display, various Picasso specialists will speak at a symposium on February 21, William Robin, director of the department of paintings and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts in New York, Robert Rosenblum, professor of modern European art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, Jean Sutherland Boggs, director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Theodore Reff, professor of art history at Columbia University, and Leo Steinberg, professor of art at the University of Pennsylvania, will each discuss his original research on Picasso...
...They are all recognized Picasso experts, and they will all present information that has never been presented before," Upright said...