I felt I saw something of Picasso I never saw before.
One could see Picasso living with these works and in many cases I think his paintings directly deriving from the sculpture and in turn fueling new work. The way one walks around-- and the profound difference between sculpture and painting-- this idea is present as one is reminded of painting after painting.
There is a tradition in Tintoretto and Benton of working from the reality of Sculpture to make paintings. There seems a hint of this.
Everything in Picasso is related to the outer representation of figure. We have dropped that relation.
For us the canvas square or the cube is a figure's form. I guess we are headed back around in this relation to form.
Picasso has a raw power from the older relation-- Matisse's cut outs become that more formal figure.
The change from modeling to plane-- as mediums change that the work is so attached to.
Again thinking of the Stella show and the lineage I feel so important is realizing these as Art.
Really Great show in the line of the Picasso and Matisse shows before.
Interesting also to think of Matisse's paper cut outs, last years show at the MOMA.
This brings to mind the juxtaposition of the de Kooning retrospective to the Stella, the E Murray to the Marden.
This is what the Modern is so good at.
