He knows it

In his review, “Making and Looking”, published in the February 6-7, 2016 weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal, Charles Ray writes about Picasso’s 1934 “Woman with Leaves”, one of the many revelatory sculptures in the Museum of Modern Art’s “Picasso Sculpture” exhibit. I have read many reviews and articles about the recently closed exhibit, but this one stands out for its focus on the physical processes involved in making a work of art.  As Ray details them: “… making small impromptu molds from cardboard, filling them with wet plaster, stacking the resulting forms, and imprinting garden textures and shapes of leaves in the plaster…” Ray, a sculptor himself, knows that aesthetics and process are linked.