TR 1.3 - "NIght Fishing at Antibes"

[David Morris]

Yes. Dreaming in an archetypal way.

On Saturday, April 30, 2011, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
> Right - it's a dream painting.
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> 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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