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Pablo Picasso's New 'Art'

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By ROBIN HUTCHEON

THE CHÍNA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1954.

He follows the party line only when it suite ho. He said re- cenily: "Pulilies in Politics, and but ort I lenow far more that the Kremlia."

HAT extraordinarily ia this latest venture A

To the versatile, unprediet. approach

monsters for which Please hag able, impish Picasso

dealted wealtres of The Chief Divetor dose it again! of

Pirka Muzey D'Art 'I' m it' Piensoism Meterne, M. Jean Cassou, as This independence of spirit

sabri Pionero | 021 with a capital "P".

Incom- ban characterised Picasso's op¬ Period, Cubism, ble maker of nesters, Siner

1923 Picasso's genitus has ever

proach to his work throughout based

He has vir atthebed to manifest itself

himself to any contemporary farreasingly unpredictable nach

school. Invariably he has creat- hermite creations,"

| by

r! foring uwli Ark Pleassu and he

No one seems to know tonal work with his own style. nother.

characterised his more conven- the answer.

From tune to time Picasso has even written plays. Sur- realist plays, of course "Destro

al Caught By The Ta WHEN pro ducet in London instast three years ago.

Astarali u and all the other Pisan" he's ever dabbled in me just child's play com- pard with the daring new ziz bo's found for his

The Fume de sculpture Teade out of childon's toys

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Sincr this son of a Catalun

at first showed a procarion talent at the age of 14, he bar down described L it "realist," sund iramnonpers senvenged sinnessionisi,

"Cubist," from the rapheaps of Seathern France.

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run. "but it gave me ik arent marce Intellectunts in the feeling." Another actor described Comunanıst Party west of the the play as a "firosso in words." livm Vilain,

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and he refused to accept party named The

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fleujar scene in the play where all the matous Junipend 201 Chege

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minute", "Oh my chilblains! Oh my chilblains

He has writen "poetry" lớn, HIN "Dreams mudd Lies General Frumro" opens with the words "Fandango of shivering

>wls.

And here is an extract from other Picasso “poem", written without purogrupl antener

hal punctuation discovers the shadows nagel wlech strete

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hundkerchief the window fight that climbs ille mice. the string of the well that is.

At 73, Plusso is reputed make as much as £300 a day. Valiautis potter he eats

*M Rartiman attacked what he called

attempts to rewrite history and "myths* · about Churchills and Roosevelt's collaboration with the Russians —

NEW YORK table,

ROOSEVELT

"SO, F. D., THEY FINALLY GET ROUND TO US

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Has Oxford Stopped

Breeding Giants?

OX FORD.

Iyer

Mr Raghavan steps into the presidency of the Oxford Union, traditionally the spring- board for a life of disfine- tion. But for some time now the record has been disappointing. Is Mr lyer destined to in b

restore the glitter?

T 8.15 p.m., 24-year-old Mr Raghavan iyer. elad in Indian evening |dress-a black cout called # sherwani, and white As a

breeches and with a white tung ungle piece of his work 12 für

tines as much as any of the carnation in his button-hole. artisans who have made the tiny mounted the dis Riviera village famous for debating hall of the union pottery since the 13th century. He pressed the bell-push o

Up uni the of

end the your the arm of his chair. artst lived

with his young called "Order, order l' "wife" and the

From children

two

as quletly and happily His term as president of

By JOHN WATERMAN

world,

university

an

es the tourists wind allow them the Oxford Union had be to live.

gun. A term in which he Quite muddenly Pleassu le achieves not only the pin- her unteciintably as in s

Bus actions.

of Now

his three nucle quarters of the family live on career, but occupies one skle of Purts's Hiver Seine office which has a formal- and the other quarter, Pleasso, able reputation as a spring lives in the other side.

board to eminence in after life.

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the most

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But

There are

most barristers) and Mr H Lloyd-Jones. Brilliant inen. It is unlikely that any will be-

Simon or Birkenhend. Writing and journalism were སན་ also populer. At least seven plumped for them. Mr Beverley Nichols, Mr Roger Fulford and Mr Douglas Wood-

of the editor

Catholic

ali paper, The Tablet. They are competent craftsmen. But writers of overwhelming stature? No.

In fact, not one man of this time shines out with the bright, hard light of these giant stars from the Oxford Union of half

century and more ago.

What

its true worth?

of true

It may be. Is Mr Raghavan Iyer, sliting in his presidentin chair, the man destined to start the revival?

the explanation? well equipped with Have the standards declined by parily-used epigrams, and with which

presidents are elected? upward glance at the fs transient popularity more re- example of Mr Gladstone.

warded than promise the list of former presidents of

Mr Gladstone is at the top of worth? the union

Or is this just a

temporary who achieved the lapse?

Can This extraordinary object is the

it be that the the artisi Crane,

bighest measure of distinction in Picasso mess it. It is one Rem of 26 (with a total value

But that

union will soon produce another of £60,000) now on exhibition in London. The 13-year-old

Not far behind him Gladstone, another Birkenhead, Picas

For seven further even public life.

is that great Liberal statesman, another Asquith Picaso is shown in his most fantastic

He is Just dings Mr Iyer, a spare and Lord Asquith, Prime Minister in overvalued present reputation to 10 restora s mood

pleases. in the show. The exhibit above has a gas tap and anal for head. The pendent person--whether painter. handsome graduate and the first part of the 1914-18 war. Body incorporates a shovel; two forks make the feet. Communist, writer family- the first president from Lord Curzon ("that most

[[],

Nuffield College will sit superior purzon") At last year's Cannes Fum thus, ruling this

famous famous Viceroy f India, was Festival the Pienssis were Invil-i as July Just mart che, caused a mail secast to the seal spening.

The Oxford talking-shop, this president of the union in 1880. Then there is Lord Birken vog margt Rome ex-

int Pat

was draw anitation spalated 11

precocious wife ties most

adopted head, who, as F. E. Smith, was triumphant en frank. andmelted, from

and mall, anyway, for hot graphs and with complete a tals. Picasso turned up in child of the Mother of Par- a flamboyans wit, lawyer

difference to the "party line" shirty yellow pullover (with fiamente. Each day he will politician of the highest

slaves, of course), paint-smeared He was rebuked by Moscow. Krey slacks and sandals and a dovetail two or three hours The pielar did it represent here. Only Picasso

could--and of Soul of the great Stalin, he did-get away with that.

Hefore the family break-up a reporter Interviewed his wife,

don't worry

about him," the

“He paletes on the wall of the drawing room-it's his drawing room and he can do Before his drawing of Stall, as he likes. the Communist Party had wear old clothes and sculp with frequently accused him of the children's

decadent cosmopolitaniam." He business.

toys, that's his He buys them new) ignored the censure.

toys and everybody's happy."

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was

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told. www

tor Picasso shrugged his should-

ers, "So Day don't like it. That 14. He did not apologiae.

If he wants to

were hard to sup- Monkey With Child” much

for the derant Roman critics,

Th

an old two- hand vs. the Lnd was an old fron railing. the head was it toy mote car the beamet represent- In the snout and the headlights pervy as the mostells) and half another car was the lower jaw, The ears were benss ornaments, The ear's spare wheel sat on the back of the monkey's head like a

In April 1052, he was calleri But the mest important ques~ but, and the whole thing was before the French Communist tion has not been answered. Atted together with plaster and Cultural Committee in Paris to Picasso pulling the world's be told that his work lacked arthalle leg with his new crea- And now In Landon, at the

realism. Picardo Ignored the thins? Current Picasso exhibitim he's summons and went off to the exhibiting "The Crane," This South of France instead.

painted a vivid green.

plece of sculpture has a gas tup

a nail for the end." The body Invergorates a shovel: two forks make the feet and it has been given a liberal "war paint" finish "in white.

"Art form"

Picasso's latest

minde a sensational first ap- pearnce at the Paris abstrac- tonista May Salon

Jast year when he exhibited a bust of a bickly-smiling goat and another object which he désuibed as a "three-dimensional bottle."

corrugated

bronze.

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him,

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says

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union business in with academic work.

What then?

Then in June, Mr Iyer will quit the presidential chair, go down from Oxford, and return to India.

What then? Fame or obscurity?

In the eyes of the generat public the presidency

of the Oxford Union confers on a man the automatle right to be halled

and

rank

an

Lord Simon, another of the century, of the greatest lawyer-politicians

All these names hove imperishable place in the history books. On them is largely founded the reputation of the Oxford Unlun todny.

What presidents in more re- cent years have comu STOT Oxford to match their brilliance and

giant stature, and to sustain that reputation?

The recent record Ja 18. appointing. A look at it shows that the unlon's standing sull rests heavily on its great namen of the 19th century."

Take a dance at the careers of the presidents who held as the latest man of tomorrow. office between the wars, 1919- And thus he is launched on the 39. There are 36 men still alive who were presidents in that time.

KREMLIN

TABLE

By Bernard Ronald

Milan. Russia will also be

Not surprising

Who's Who does not list 24 or them. That is not as surprising

There will as it may seem. always be, and always have been, men who fall to live up to their curly promise.

But the significant fact in that showing proportion of the goods wa of the 32 who are included in

* RUSSIAN food delicacies Loozig, Vienna, Greece and quiries for other exhibits are to have achieved, or be likely

the

The hend

Here

to

do

Caeliitates

who

achieve lasting fome in

tho

Mr

☆ * The goat's head was made of enjoyed by Malenkov, Indonesia later this year.

being followed up."

to ac bristled with rusty four-inch Molotov and other Soviet

"Our aim is to develop trade Showpieces sold bv the grand manner. nails, and the eyes were two notabilities should be rp with all countries interested in Russians included carpets, food. Into politics have gone 20, roughly painted iron bolts, The pearing on the menus

of the Soviet market. As for Bel stuffs, shotguns, and champagne Only one has attained Cabinet

Lord

Hore horns were

tain, the in particular has much at the equivalent of gloven rank; the present handlebars of a housewives in the Free child's haleycle smeared

red with

Industrial equipment, which the World Inter this year.

shillings and ferpetice a bottle, Belisha. One-Mr Alan Lennox- Soviet Union would like to buy. They also sold a Zim six-acator Boyd has binck and white paint

become a fully British Firstly, the USSR is to take When Picasso arrived to make

limousine, texllies, furs and edged Minister. Nine, includ

Mr his first public

Boyd-Carpenter. oppearance in part in a food show in London visit Moscow will find the So- mink coats. I am abla to reveal | 29g Paris for years, the effect was this summer in a bid to build up viet trade representatives are

that the minic coats sold at the Hugh Molton and Mr Christo. n market In Great Britain. quile starting. He was dressed

everything to prepared

pher Mayhew, are or have been In Italy at the Milan posible

equivalent of £680 apiece. tom-

Ministers. The like a tramp, but

junior "Me Suscov insisted that

best crowds mobbed

He was hugged Fair I mot Viadimir Suscov, morce be went ວກ..

So known of the rest are the Foot and kissed by many admirers. Secretary-General of the Soviet Mr Buscov pointed out to me visit deserved some vodka,

brothers, Mr Dingle Foot, the One cestatic woman said to Chambers of Commerce. Ho that his duties in Moscow in- here is a word of warning Do Liberal: Mr Michbel Foot, the clude the reception of business not rulp it down, as the Russians Bevanile; Mr Christopher Holi!), Intro: "It is simply ravishing. told me:

"We shall be showing a very visitors Now I do no really so what

and invite you to from abroad,

to do, unless you have

Mr J. P. W. Maltallgu and Mr. you mean."

wide range of food products in added that he had met members a pilot's Leened.

For Other people asked: "What a Britain, including caviore, hams, of a British trade mission which

They are all good, sound men. A central heating But how many could pack the off." At meant to be?"

pork sausages,

ne sulmon received Sovial orders in Moss "take really are liable to Anthony Greenwood.

system, seems to take charge of Albert Hall, how many could and fruit preserves. The. Lon- cow some months $80,

could your

our "innards. Your throat gets stump the country on a Mid- don show will be under the Why has he been developing patronage of Her Majesty the tell me what wore his Im as hot as tossing patat, And lothian Lour. Not ond. No

""" along there his

Queen. I understand that it pressions of the Milan Fair, as you wonder just how it is that Cladstones here. lines?

Soviet participation was so watery-looking a liquid con After all, his better known will be held in August or Sop The B paintings have roomily wold tember of this year." Me devery he produce mulh a solid

Mr. Susooy, loader of the Irnely in London and on the

declare dove thinks vorite will ever Continent for fjety/wões 23,500, Soviet trade

BORITI HỪ the Ink Minina, mát, treće mififon peoplę ma me place on the ang £8,500 dach.

ternational. Fale....in, Milan, muscl way

But Pionero said nothing. He Just chilbet.

I dales Mr Suséov

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