In his review, \u201cMaking and Looking\u201d, published in the February 6-7, 2016 weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal, Charles Ray writes about Picasso\u2019s 1934 \u201cWoman with Leaves\u201d, one of the many revelatory sculptures in the Museum of Modern Art\u2019s \u201cPicasso Sculpture\u201d 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. \u00a0As Ray details them: \u201c\u2026 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\u2026\u201d Ray, a sculptor himself, knows that aesthetics and process are linked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In his review, \u201cMaking and Looking\u201d, published in the February 6-7, 2016 weekend edition of The Wall Street Journal, Charles Ray writes about Picasso\u2019s 1934 \u201cWoman with Leaves\u201d, one of the many revelatory sculptures in the Museum of Modern Art\u2019s \u201cPicasso Sculpture\u201d exhibit. I have read many reviews and articles about the recently closed exhibit, … Continue reading “He knows it”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}