TR 1.3 - "NIght Fishing at Antibes"

[David Morris]

For Wyatt to be so taken by this Picasso tells us that the realism is
not his ideal.  That is a big deal.

As for this painting, I'd not seen it before.  Critics have chosen to
not comment, it seems.  It's subject, Night Fishing, is LADEN with
psycho-analytic content.  Night has always been about the unknown, and
a large body of water no less.  Here they are combined.  Fishing the
depths of the soul, in other words.

David Morris

On Saturday, April 30, 2011, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
> When I learned that the Picasso which so transfixes Wyatt is owned by
> the MOMA I was eager to go and have a look at it myself...and was
> disappointed to discover that (at least according to the museum's
> online catalogue) it's not currently on display.  The page doesn't
> indicate if the canvas is on loan or in storage.
>
> I've likely looked it over, or overlooked it, in the huge Picasso
> retrospective back in 1980 or simply on the walls of the museum in
> early years, but I have no memory of it....and given its uneven
> critical reception, it would seem the painting doesn't have the same
> impact on many people as it does on our hero.  Part of Wyatt's point
> about "really seeing" perhaps.
>
> http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=78433
>
> (By the way, the acoustiguide "gloss" on the painting linked on the
> MOMA catalog page is apparently intended for children or very slow
> adults - it's EXTREMELY annoying....)
>
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> Richard Ryan
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