Dennis Hollingsworth

Looks Like a Good Read

A quick perusal of Arts and Letters Daily yields what looks like an interesting read (at least the review itself is interesting). Clipped here, the last paragraph of a book review of "Alex Danchev's frisky biography":

The book ends, fortunately, closer to the ground, as Danchev lists the pigments on Braque's last palette, which he asked for on his deathbed. They include raw umber, burnt sienna, yellow ochre and bone black. For Braque, mixing paint was like 'taking soil samples' and here, in the rudiments of a picture he never painted, he reduced man to his elements - the ultimate Cubist decomposition.