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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Picasso: Reordering of Reality

Curator Michael Taylor discusses Juan Gris' Still Life Before an Open Window, Place Ravignan. It's the first Cubist painting to blend the interior and the exterior worlds together. Sadly, a computer screen doesn't do the colors justice -- the palette is strange and mystical, and definitely worth seeing in person (find this work in the Synthetic Cubism gallery). What do you think of it?