Tag Archives: Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

picasso comet

The effect of the rise of esteem in the earlier periods of Picasso automatically put a grip on the reception of the later ones as they came off the easel. Since the end of WWII every freshly painted Picasso was … Continue reading

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man of those wild harsh forms and black humor

The so called “negroid” works of Picasso, Demoiselles D’Avignon, were the first Picassos to meet with acclaim in their time from avant-garde critics in both Europe and America. It was the historic Armory Show in 1913, which really brought Picasso … Continue reading

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“museums are just a lot of lies”

There had been nothing like it. A visual world formed literally in the image of Picasso. From fashion and department store advertising, to political caricature, the public was subsumed by these modernist forms of expression; the speed with which newlt … Continue reading

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period productions

The shock of the new. A trauma involving a break in the continuity of existence… Which Picasso? As great an impresario as he was a painter, Picasso in his lifetime had produced a whole repertory of artists bearing the same … Continue reading

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