Individual Reading. Summary 2. Ch 11-20.

In Paris, the narrator found where Mr. Strickland had stayed, and visited Charles. From their conversation, the teller knew that Charles didn’t love his wife and children anymore. And in Paris he decided to paint. The narrator was in perplexity.

When the teller returned to England, he went to Mrs. Strickland. There he began to speak with Amy, Mr. and Mrs. MacAndrew about his conversation with Mr. Strickland. They couldn’t believe the teller’s words. But in the end Mrs. Strickland started to hate him and told that they were strangers to each other now.

Then Mrs. Strickland decided to start her life anew. Soon she had a success and became a head of in Chancery Lane.

The narrator was bored with London and he made a decision to live in France. Then the teller visited his friend from Rome Dirk Stroev who was a painter. The teller knew that his friend Dirk was admired of works of Charles Strickland. And Dirk arranged meeting with Mr. Strickland. The teller concluded, the Charles had greatly changed since the last time they met.

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            The article published on the website of the newspaper “The New York Times” on February 14, 2013 is headlined “The Eye is Part of the Mind: Drawings From Life and Art by Leo Steinberg”. The article repots that now two collegial friends of Leo Steinberg, who was a hands-on artist. , David Cohen and Graham Nickson have selected nearly 60 of those drawings for a tribute show that is a posthumous Steinberg solo debut. Leo worked with skill in the versatile, revisable graphite medium.           

            It was revealed that his talent is obvious early, in a doe-eyed self-portrait from the Slade years, and in a series of carefully observed and polished drawings of a friend, Deirdre Knewstub. 

            The article informs us about that Steinberg was teaching art at Parsons School of Design and warming up to write his mold-shattering contemporary art criticism. The drawings suggest his range of interests, from Michelangelo to Picasso. They also capture his wit, as in an ink sketch of what looks like the morning-after of an orgy on Parnassus or in a downtown walk-up.

            I can say that Leo Steinberg is one of the most brilliant, influential, and controversial art historians of the last half of the 20th century..  Steinberg’s work didn’t sit well with everyone. While no one could deny his brilliance, some accused him of over-reaching in his art-historical interpretations. Acutely proud of his intellectual boldness, however, and vastly preferring going out on an imaginative intellectual limb to confining his art history to timidly tracking the trajectories of art and artists, Steinberg defended himself in a 1967 essay, “Objectivity and the Shrinking Self.”

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         The article published on the website of “The Art Newspaper” on February 20, 2013. The title of the article is Picasso and Chicago.

The author started by telling the reader that “Picasso and Chicago” included more than 250 works of the institute’s plus loans from private collections in the city and beyond.

Also the narrator mentioned that ten satellite displays explored Picasso’s inspirations, ranging from African art to Paul Cézanne. Although he never visited America, the Spanish artist had a soft spot for the city that was home to collectors who were immediately receptive to his work.

The author of this article informed that Chicagoans such as the collectors Frederic Clay and Helen Birch Bartlett ensured that the institute acquired works by Picasso from the 1920s onwards, including The Old Guitarist, 1903-04 (above).
        The city’s admiration of the artist culminated in a commission for a monumental sculpture unveiled in 1967 in front of the Richard J.

Moreover, the author told that he peg for this Picasso celebration, sponsored by BMO Harris Bank, was the centenary of the Armory Show of 1913 (left), a scaled-down version of which was hosted by the museum after its New York debut.

            I found the article interesting and useful for me. I was interested in fact when Picasso discovered the institute owned Mother and Child, 1921, he gave Hartmann who was the lead architect of the city’s Modernist civic centre a fragment of canvas featuring a man holding a fish, telling him to give it to the institute, which would know what it was.

Individual reading. Summary 1. Chapter 1-10.

The narrator was a young writer in London. One day he was invited to the hospitable houses of the literary. By the way, there the teller met with Mrs. Strickland. Then, because of the success of his first book, he was invited to Mrs. Strickland for a lunch. They began to sympathize with each other, but only as friends.

The narrator first met Charles Strickland through his wife, Mrs. Amy Strickland. After that the teller had known Mr. Strickland, he decided that Charles was good, but dull person.

When in the early autumn the narrator returned to London, he knew from Rose Waterford that Mr. Strickland had run away from his wife to Paris with a woman. The teller decided to visit Mrs. Strickland. And miserable Amy asked him to go to France and tried to persuade her husband to return to her.

Pleasure Reading

Year I Term I - Conon Doyle " The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes"

Year I Term II - Cecelia Ahern "P.S. I love you" 

Year II Term III -William Golding " Lord of the Flies"

Year II Term IV - Michael Cunningham "By Nightfall"

Year III Term V - Philip Roth "When she was good"

Year III Term VI -

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