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Re: Query: Surrealist painter in "Spring in Fialta" (fwd)
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From: "L.M. Delage-Toriel" <lmd24@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: Query: Surrealist painter in "Spring in Fialta"
The allusion to the bald head and the eye-and-guitar canvases make me
think of Picasso and his cubistic collages. This artist is more explicitly
referred to in *Pnin* (Victor's art teacher says he is supreme) and *Pale
Fire* (Kinbote decorates his rented house with " a beloved early Picasso:
earth boy leading rain-cloud horse") . Nabokov told Alfred Appel (in
*Strong Opinions, p167) that although Cubistic collage "has none of the
poetical appeal that I demand from all art", he admires "the graphic
aspect, the masterly technique, and the quiet colors" of Picasso's art.
Lara Delage-Toriel
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: Query: Surrealist painter in "Spring in Fialta"
The allusion to the bald head and the eye-and-guitar canvases make me
think of Picasso and his cubistic collages. This artist is more explicitly
referred to in *Pnin* (Victor's art teacher says he is supreme) and *Pale
Fire* (Kinbote decorates his rented house with " a beloved early Picasso:
earth boy leading rain-cloud horse") . Nabokov told Alfred Appel (in
*Strong Opinions, p167) that although Cubistic collage "has none of the
poetical appeal that I demand from all art", he admires "the graphic
aspect, the masterly technique, and the quiet colors" of Picasso's art.
Lara Delage-Toriel
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Donald Barton Johnson wrote: