Rose Art Museum display justifies the passions Nov 5, 2009
se Walter, in ecstatic slumber; an elongated still life by Georges Braque in tremblingly autumnal colors; and a young male bather by C. zanne. (Boston Globe)
Painting the Moon Oct 19, 2009
Laurencin was born in 1883 and spent a Bohemian youth in Paris, befriending Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and becoming the lover of writer and poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Laurencin s Artemis was done circa 1908, seemingly during her relationship with the intense Apollinaire. (Suite101.com)
Read Indepth Article Aug 20, 2009
Picasso and the Allure of Language comprises some 60 works in all media by Picasso, as well as select examples by fellow artist Georges Braque, and photographs, letters, manuscripts and book projects by a diverse group of artists and writers. Together, these works illuminate Picasso's deep and multidimensional interest in writing and language, which gives new meaning to highlights of his lifetime of work. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Picasso and the Allure of Language Aug 20, 2009
The Nasher Museum presents a groundbreaking exhibition examining Pablo Picasso's lifelong relationship with writers and the many ways in which language affected his work. Together, these works illuminate Picasso's deep and multidimensional interest in writing and language, which gives new meaning to highlights of his lifetime of work. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Gordon Bensley, 84; advanced the teaching of visual arts Jul 24, 2009
However, while in Paris awaiting his return home following World War II, he attended L Ecole des Beaux Arts and worked in the studio of cubist painter Georges Braque. That exposure to cubism, with its emphasis on seeing multiple perspectives simultaneously, triggered his interest in modern art. (Boston Globe)
Exhibit is a fun way to take in the trash Jul 9, 2009
The idea came into vogue in the early 20th century, when such artists as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque started recycling newspapers and the like in collages and Marcel Duchamp dubbed a urinal Fountain and called it readymade art. It has never really gone out of style, and in recent years heightened focus on the environment has given it a particular cachet. (Boston Globe)
An Inspired Career Apr 12, 2009
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were mid-course in the collaboration that produced so-called analytic cubism, a manner of fracturing pictorial architecture that would echo a half century into the future. Before he left Paris in 1914, Chagall had seen the infamous first staging by Serge Diaghilev of Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Philadelphia exhibit shows Cezanne's lasting power Feb 26, 2009
Cezanne's influence is clear in the juxtapositions, whether in the still-life watercolors of Stieglitz circle modernists Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley, the portraits of Matisse and Picasso, or the landscapes of Georges Braque and Arshile Gorky. In addition to the visual correlations, visitors also will get a sense of Cezanne's pre-eminence through the artists' own words placed next to some of the artwork. (Yahoo News)
