Picasso was more completely himself in three dimensions: a magician, a magpie genius, a comedic entertainer and a tinkerer with superb reflexes. His many gifts — versatility, voraciousness, a need for constant reinvention — are more sharply apparent in real space and tangible materials. We can’t miss his consummate grasp of tactility and form or of the potential for found objects and materials to lead double lives.Speaking of "staggering," I love photos of people stumbling and bumbling through art galleries, so don't miss the slide show at the link. And let me highlight this one with — amid the Picassos — a choice "living sculpture" I'll call "Man In Shorts."
And, yes, of course, I know Picasso himself wore shorts and posed for pictures in shorts. Here's a selfie he pulled off circa 1915:
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I'm currently watching a lecture series on DVD called "Understanding the World’s Greatest Structures." It's structural engineering.
That NYT review might be fairly described as raving, but it might also be fairly described as ditzy.
It's a form of entertainment about another form of entertainment, irrespective.
"clarity, lyricism and accumulative wisdom"
Associating those words with Picasso confirms, as if evidence were needed, that art criticism has gone mad.
unavoidably, dizzyingly peripatetic
I had no idea Picasso was so devoted to Aristotelian aesthetics!
"Ancient art" was the phrase that popped into my mind, artifacts from a vanished civilization. I wonder how they will look in another hundred years?
I wonder if you got to see Frederick Wiseman's National Gallery, which was released last year. Lots of great shots of patrons looking at the paintings. And everyone in long pants, from what I remember.
I agree with Picasso that unless you are working with nothing, it is better to show a little bulge when wearing shorts. Suddenly objections disappear ;)
'Men in Shorts'- LOL!
Thomas Struth gets credit for similar photographs of museum goers. I can't recall his contemporary who photographed museum crowds in an Italian gallery, but those were brilliant.
Peripatetic?
Is the sculpture motorized? Or is the MoMA? The Guggenheim looks like it might have wheels, but the MoMA's a bauhaus brick, so it's not likely to travel anywhere except up after a large bomb detonates under it. Does the NYT own a dictionary? And if so, isn't time they quit using it for a doorstop?
Well, I suppose I shouldn't fret too much about peripatetic. People who write about art have been misusing adjectives, verbs, and just about every part of speech for a long time - from about the time art stopped making sense. Funny coincidence, that.
Peripatetic described the way Aristotle moved while he lectured
Peripatetic described the way Aristotle moved while he lectured
There's nothing Aristotelian about a Picasso sculpture.
mccullough said...
Peripatetic described the way Aristotle moved while he lectured.
I thought the Peripatetics got the name from the fact that they met outside on a field used for exercise.
One prof of mine - none other than Tom Regan, patron saint of the "animal rights" movement - said the term applied to Aristotle's habit of pacing round rather than sitting serenely in the midst of his listeners. He compared Aristotle to Groucho Marx.
Never mind, we all know what it means. My point is the NYT evidently doesn't.
like you understand why Lowells have to be Lowells
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Might be a once-in-a-lifetime event but I am posting twice because due grade A inadvertently cross-posting without premeditation/consideration/aeropastictation.
You get it?
in ADVERT ently
I compenstate for what they lack above at the NYT.
I remain unimpressed and uncaring.
Who poses like that? Legs spread. Arms downthrust, hands clenched. Unsmiling. White shorts. Waist sucked in. Lousy hair cut. The "selfie" shows no more artistic sensibility than any modern selfie. Picasso was a jumped-up Basque sheep herder.
TIL: Picasso dressed left.
thanks, Althouse!
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