The Paris Papers: Part Two

Exotic, Ecstatic, Erotic

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Three Musicians, or Musicians in Masks, 1921

The movement of abstract art . . . bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

Meyer Shapiro

Musique Du Jour: Six toe-tappers by Django Reinhardt

Addendum XII

A Bloody Bicentenary

Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) - The Third of May, 1808

Edouard Manet (1832-1883) - The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, 1868–69

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Massacre in Korea, 1951

Yue Minjun (b. 1962) - Execution, 1995

Coda II

Pablo Picasso (1881-1967): Sleepers Together, Alone And Observed

La Sieste (Les Moissonneurs), 1919




Sleeping Peasants, 1919




Woman with Yellow Hair, 1931

The Dream, 1932

Minotaur Caressing a Sleeping Woman, 1933

Faun Unveiling a Sleeping Woman, 1936

'Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.'

E. M Ciroan

Six Images In Search Of An Exhibition V

The Sweet Smell Of Excess

Thomas Banks - The Falling Giant, 1786

Fernand Leger (1881-1955) - La gran Julie, 1945

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Still Life With A Glass Under Lamplight, 1962

Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) - Raw War, 1970

Roy Lichtenstein - Bananas & Grapefruit #1, 1972

Gilbert and George (b. 1943 and 1942) - Son of God, 2005


'Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.'

Mick Jagger

Render Unto Ceasar

Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) - I shop therefore I am, 1990

"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."

Mark Twain

"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."

Robert Graves

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."

Pablo Picasso

"There are people who have money and people who are rich."

Coco Chanel

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

Woody Allen

"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."

Albert Camus

"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."

Voltaire

"When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life: now that I'm old I know it is."

Oscar Wilde

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may be said to be living apart."

e. e. cummings

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."

Dorothy Parker

Inaubible As A Melody Cut In A Disc Of Flesh

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) - Mandolin and Guitar, 1924



"A painter paints their pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."

Leopold Stokowski

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

Ludwig van Beethoven

"You are the music while it lasts."

T. S. Eliot

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

Victor Hugo

"When words leave off, music begins."

Heinrich Heine

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

Leo Tolstoy

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley

"Music is the poetry of the air."

Jean Paul Richter

"Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me."

Jean Genet

"Too many pieces of music finish long after the end."

Igor Stravinsky

Signatures Of The Soul

Jenny Saville (b. 1970) - Reverse, 2003


"The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent."

Marcel Proust

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Oscar Wilde

"You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use works of art to see your soul."

George Bernard Shaw

"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"

Pablo Picasso

"I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."

Rainer Maria Rilke

The Music Of Chance

Pablo Picasso - Three Musicians (1921)


"We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth."

"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious."

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

"I do not seek. I find."

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

"Everything you can imagine is real."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

"It takes a long time to become young."

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

Pablo Picasso

Eleven Mirrors (November Special)

Hans Memling - Earthly Vanity (c. 1485)

Giovanni Bellini - Naked Young Woman in Front of the Mirror (1515)

Parmigianino - Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (c. 1524)

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Narcissus (1598-99)

Peter Paul Rubens - Venus at a Mirror (c. 1615)

Georges de la Tour - The Penitent Magdalen (1638)

Diego Velasquez - Venus at her Mirror (1649-51)

Jean- Baptiste Greuze - The Broken Mirror (1763)

Rene Magritte - Dangerous Liaison (1926)

Pablo Picasso - Girl Before a Mirror (1932)

Barbara Kruger - Who's the Fairest of them All? (date unknown)

"The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied."

Confucious

The Lascivious Eye

Pablo Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)

"Conventionally, both the act of painting and that of viewing have been described as phallic acts, acts of penetration performed on the passive receptacle, the blank field of the canvas. "I paint with my prick," Renoir supposedly boasted. "A painter has also to paint 'with [his] balls,'" bragged Picasso to his mistress, the painter Françoise Gilot. "I guess that even if a painter fucks a picture to a real climax once a year, it is quite a record," Mark Rothko later estimated. And the critic Jean Clair once pithily proclaimed, "The gaze is the erection of the eye."

From New Encounters with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: Gender, Race and the Origins of Cubism by Anna C. Chave