... deformity of the prostitutes" bodies may be read as an expression of Picasso's fear toward women, and of his association of sexual pleasure with the threat of disease and death. Cubism began as an intellectual revolt against the artistic expression of previous eras. Among the specific elements abandoned by the cubists were the sensual appeal of paint texture and color, subject ... together closely during the next few years (1909-12)--the only time Picasso ever worked with another painter in this way--and they developed what came to be known as Analytical Cubism. Critics and viewers ofte...

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... cool white rooms of the Pompidou's spaciously hung survey, I soon began to realise that he had achieved an astonishing fusion of the headlong and the sparing, the rapturous and the analytical. Derain, whose moustachioed face he painted with the aid of violent blue and green shadows, was brash compared with Matisse. At once discerning and hot-headed, he arrived during these ... of formidable discipline, and his understanding of restraint helped him to arrive at the magisterial gravitas of great wartime canvases like The Piano Lesson and The Moroccans. Lessons learnt from Cubism permit hi...

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