Blog #9– International Art English

Here is an excerpt from one of the art critic Max Kozloff's reviews from 1972 on "Cubism’s Ugly Figures":

"It is, therefore, a pessimistic tradition that Picasso inherited, anti-erotic even to the extent of chastening the pictorial means themselves into a glowering or bilious vision of the flesh. Behind it, though, lies a current or sceptic realism whose purpose was to strip away the enshrined shams and the genteel lies that in most public media sentimentalized the relations of the sexes."


I think the main point of what he is trying to say is diluted by a lot of words I've never seen or heard before which makes me feel like I need a dictionary by my side to read it.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/archives-max-kozloff-cubisms-ugly-figures-1972-11656/