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Sunday, February 15. 2015

Braque - Gris - Picasso - Leger

We jumped into a chilly and breezy NYC right after early church to catch the Lauder Cubism Show at the Met. Thanks, Leonard Lauder, for this amazing gift to the public. Tomorrow (Monday) is the last day.


In my opinion, pictures like these are best seen in a house, best lived-with, and not in a museum, but such is the world today. Regular people cannot afford them, but really nothing wrong with good prints. Fun.


81 paintings and drawings from 1904-1925 - spectacular but overwhelming. I am a Cubism fan. I consider it highly decorative - eye candy - interesting to the eye, and I imagine that my hero Cezanne would have been fascinated had he lived long enough to see it.


Below is Picasso's 1909 The Oil Mill. Cubism is as abstract as the genius Picasso ever got. His authority of line, color, and design never ceases to amaze me regardless of whatever style he was exploring or inventing. He kept moving but, for a while, he and Braque had a cool thing going with Cubist experimentation.



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I've never really understood the attraction of this type of art. I see nothing inspiring, moving, or transcendent. It looks like a murky pile of Legos. From theartstory.org: "It abandoned perspective, which artists had used to order space since the Renaissance. And it turned away from the realistic modeling of figures and towards a system of representing bodies in space that employed small, tilted planes, set in a shallow space. Over time, Picasso and Braque also moved towards open form - they pierced the bodies of their figures, let the space flow through them, and blended background into foreground."

Why? It appears to be a deliberate decision to let entropy rule. From this art devolved to spraying paint on a canvas or, worse, the scatological.

Watch at about 3.0 min in on this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNI07egoefc

All that said, glad you had a nice day out, in the city.
#1 Mark on 2015-02-16 08:52 (Reply)
Thanks for the video link. I was recently at the Reina Sofia in Madrid (I am not an artsy type, but I wanted to check out some of the famous works). Many of Miro's "art" reminded me of things I doodled when I was 10 years old; no grand statements--just idle doodling to relieve classroom boredom. Who knew I had such talent? LOL.
#1.1 dcjuggler on 2015-02-16 10:13 (Reply)

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