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Article: Painted women.(Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning; C&M Arts, New York, New York)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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There is nothing like similarity of subject and pose--a shared motif--to bring out the underlying differences between major masters. Such was the case in the exhibition "Picasso's Dora Maar/de Kooning's Women," a visually stimulating and intellectually provocative show on view recently at C&M Arts in New York.
Picasso unquestionably played a major role in the evolution of de Kooning's style.(1) De Kooning made no bones about the importance of the relationship. It was less a case of "the anxiety of influence," to borrow Harold Bloom's ever-useful phrase, than of outright competition: "Picasso is the guy to beat," the younger artist is said to have asserted.(2) ...