{"id":1012,"date":"2008-10-24T14:15:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T21:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/10\/pablos-muse\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T21:16:52","slug":"pablos-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/24\/pablos-muse\/","title":{"rendered":"Pablo’s Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Picasso in Lust and Ambition<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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Librado Romero\/The New York Times<\/p>\n

Picasso\u2019s \u2018Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se,\u2019 featuring work like \u201cNude on a Black Armchair\u201d (1932) and other portraits of his muse Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter, is at Acquavella Galleries.<\/span><\/p>\n

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By\u00a0HOLLAND COTTER<\/a><\/p>\n

Picasso<\/a>\u00a0was one of 20th-century art\u2019s major makers and shapers. He was also one of its most prolific purveyors of kitsch. I would place a high percentage of his output in the kitsch category. That would include some of the dozen closely related paintings in the exhibition \u201cPicasso\u2019s \u2018Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se\u2019\u00a0\u201d at Acquavella Galleries.<\/p>\n

The paintings at Acquavella, all done in or around 1932, have several narratives going for them; the first and most familiar, and the one people seem to love best, is called \u201cPicasso in Love,\u201d subtitled \u201cLove (or Lust) as the Wellspring of Art.\u201d The erotic muse in this case was Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter, a French teenager whom Picasso met and sweet-talked on a Paris street in 1927, when he was 45 and married. Soon they were lovers. He found himself rejuvenated, walking on air. He painted many pictures using her as a model. Some are in the show.<\/p>\n

The rest of the story is not so happy. In 1935 Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se had his child, but Picasso\u2019s attention wandered. He found other mistresses and new wives, though he kept in affectionate touch with Ms. Walter through the years. Four years after he died, she committed suicide.<\/p>\n

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Then there\u2019s another tale, less about love, more about art. In Paris in 1931 Picasso saw a retrospective of his rival\u00a0Henri Matisse<\/a>\u00a0and instantly decided that he, too, had to have a retrospective, a big one in Paris, within a year. And it would not freeze him in the past but project him into the present as the vital, fertile, better-than-ever artist he considered himself to be.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the New York Times Picasso in Lust and Ambition Librado Romero\/The New York Times Picasso\u2019s \u2018Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se,\u2019 featuring work like \u201cNude on a Black Armchair\u201d (1932) and other portraits of his muse Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter, is at Acquavella Galleries. By\u00a0HOLLAND COTTER Picasso\u00a0was one of 20th-century art\u2019s major makers and shapers. He was also one of its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}