TR 1.3 - "NIght Fishing at Antibes"

[Richard Ryan]

Right - it's a dream painting.

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 3:20 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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....)
>>
>> --
>> Richard Ryan
>> New York and the World
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