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...finds his life magically transformed by the purchase of a white suit. In the hilarious Anthem Sprinters, some rollicking Irishmen make a contest out of their penchant for bolting out of a movie theater before the playing of the national anthem at the end of a show. The Picasso Summer acutely satirizes the dilemma of an art lover. Strolling one evening, he stumbles upon the Master doodling a huge mural in the French sand. Caught without a camera, the tourist moves slowly up and down the beach, trying to make a mental photograph of the masterpiece before a rising tide...
...garde art - mainly Fauvism, cubism and futurism -were able to digest and develop them with tremendous speed and urgency, leaping beyond their prototypes like pole vaulters. To see this at work, one need only look at the development of Vladimir Tallin's sculpture after his first contact with Picasso's tin cubist Guitar, 1912, in Paris, or at the conviction with which Kasimir Malevich moved from cubism to a purely abstract painting...
Stieglitz arranged to send Hartley abroad in 1912. With such sponsorship, Hartley found himself welcomed into the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein and its animated talk of abstraction, of analytical cubism, of form vs, content. Soon Hartley was painting variants of Picasso, Braque, Delaunay, Cezanne and most of all of Kandinsky. He called his new style "subliminal or cosmic cubism...
Later that week I saw Alice B. Toklas, also bedridden. She told me she had been in love with Picasso. When I told her I had seen Fernande, she said testily, "Oh, yes. Fernande. So pretty-and so dumb." The old ladies remained in character, didn't they? And when I saw Picasso that winter he seemed half the age of either...
...room studio apartment is filled with contrasts, much like the man himself. The charcoal walls are covered neatly with contemporary art, lithographs by Rouault and Picasso, several Warhols. An unmade bed, the black velour cover twisted on top, sits low in the corner of the room. The modern glass tables are stacked with art books. There is a small balcony off the eleventh-floor studio, but Jordan is afraid to step out. He fears heights. When one of his girlfriends wants to sit outside, Jordan will sometimes edge onto the balcony, pressing against the wall, and sit nervously with...