5/27/2023 0 Comments Collageit pro mega![]() ![]() Points in time, history if you will (though this is another word I quibble with), make most inventions inevitable. Simply because someone does something for the first time does not mean that he has invented or discovered anything. Nor am I too impressed with who gets credit for discovering what. I am not interested in the concept of genius. But how do we explain the number of expensive works that Picasso was able to produce in his lifetime? Even the forgers have not been able to keep up with him. I generally cite this example to suggest that the nature of time has changed that radically between now and then. ![]() Milhaud once told me that if a professional copyist started at the age of consent to copy all the works of Bach, he could not complete the job in his lifetime. It is beyond definition, is used too loosely, and if it exists at all, applies to an excess of mental energy so far beyond the norm as to suggest that the possessor is something of a freak, like someone with two or three heads. Copley for allowing us to reproduce Copley’s piece in full here. In fact, the paintings for Copley’s 1979 exhibition at Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas were based on Picabia’s 1922 La Nuit Espagnole, which he owned and which is now on view at MoMA. In the essay below, titled “About the Hare and the Tortoise But Mostly About the Hare,” which Copley likely wrote in about 1978 and did not publish during his lifetime (he died in 1996, at the age of 77), he offers a witty and insightful consideration of Picabia’s work, and reveals just how much the erstwhile Dadaist’s free thinking influenced his own practice. Copley, the artist, collector, dealer, and quiet force of postwar vanguard art, who, as it happens, collected Picabia and channeled him in his own work. And on Thursday, January 26, Paul Kasmin Gallery will open a show devoted to paintings of women by William N. Through March 19, the Museum of Modern Art is hosting a deliriously impressive retrospective of the great provocateur and gadabout Francis Picabia, who never met an art movement he couldn’t assist and then betray. For anyone interested in the pathways and redoubts of 20th-century art history that are messy, ribald, obscure, and proudly defiant of taste and convention, now is a great time to visit New York City.
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