Tag - picasso

 
 

PICASSO

Many art critics rank Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d’Avignon," which hangs in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, as one of his greatest. But other critics describe the masterpiece as racist or exploitative.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2023
What should be done with art that is seen as racist?
So what exactly should we do when people consider extant art racist?
CULTURE / Art
Mar 14, 2017
'Picasso and Chagall: Imaginary Dialogues'
March 18-Sept. 24
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 29, 2016
Cubism in Japan: Picasso's Impact
Until Jan. 29
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 30, 2016
'Modern Genre Painting'
Sept. 3-Oct. 23
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 31, 2016
'Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou: Timeline 1906-1977'
June 11-Sept. 22
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 19, 2016
'Artists in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: From Picasso to Warhol'
April 23-June 5
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 7, 2015
Art's 20th-century identity crisis
The 20th century is rather like the teenager who never grew up — a century that saw itself as perpetually young, as the "modernist" culmination of history rather than part of the historical process. In short, an age guilty of "chronocentricism." But, like all the other centuries, culled and packaged by the relentless march of time, it, too, is receding into the past, becoming covered with the same rust and dust as the rest.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 7, 2015
'Cezanne'
April 4-Sept. 27
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 18, 2014
'The Human Image: Picasso, Matisse, Warhol'
Pablo Picasso's "Rape of the Sabine Women" is being brought to Japan for the first time. This work, inspired by Nicolas Poussin's "The Abduction of the Sabine Women" and Jacques-Louis David's "The Intervention of the Sabine Women," depicts a tale of Ancient Rome, when the city's men forcibly took a neighboring tribe's women to be their wives. Though the theme can often be found in paintings and sculpture, Picasso uses it to express his personal reaction to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 11, 2014
'Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume'
Russian ballet group Ballets Russes, founded by renown impresario and art critic Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929) was not an ordinary troupe. It collaborated with many young individuals from various disciplines, including artists Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Georges Braque, composer Igor Stravinsky and designer Coco Chanel. The modern and innovative performances were a huge inspiration in the worlds of art, fashion and music.

Longform

High-end tourism is becoming more about the kinds of experiences that Japan's lesser-known places can provide.
Can Japan lure the jet-set class off the beaten path?