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Tuesday, November 10. 2015

Interesting objects to look at


We finally made it to the Picasso sculpture show at MOMA this weekend with old friends. As I expected, it was a visual feast. Furthermore, it was more fun and less tiring than spending an hour and a half looking a paintings.


He experimented with sculpture intermittently during his life, beginning with realism and moving through all of his stylistic phases: cubism, surrealism, etc., and just plain whimsical but all with what I term the Picasso Perfect Eye because I have never found the right words for his transformative genius, making the ordinary into something entirely new and startling with great discipline and economy of line.


See it. A show like this will not happen again in your lifetime. A review: Picasso, Completely Himself in 3 Dimensions


Old New York City remains the art museum capital of the world, and the liveliest.



Pics below from his work from 1905 to the 1960s, below the fold -












Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 04:36 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Looks like asparagus.
#1 fjord on 2015-11-10 07:17 (Reply)
If one of the objects of art is to make us feel better I'll need an aspirin to look at this stuff. I wonder how many of Picasso's works would sell or be displayed if they didn't have his name on them?
#2 FRP on 2015-11-10 08:20 (Reply)
Two, maybe three!?

Even Picasso himself understood that what he was doing was furthering his brand by marketing himself and his work; rather than producing "ART". Look at his early work; he was as mediocre an artist as Hitler was an architect!

You could have put the whole collection in the movie "Beetlejuice". Or better yet, take all those sculptures from Beetlejuice and put them as part of this collection..... and no one would be the wiser
#2.1 Earl T on 2015-11-10 09:06 (Reply)
If this is art then I am the queen of Atlantis. Wait... maybe I was.
Surry I bothered you.
#3 oolioo on 2015-11-10 08:57 (Reply)
I say "phooey" to you naysayers!
#4 bd on 2015-11-10 09:55 (Reply)

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