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The other was that the "Picasso style" rendered the defamiliarization tactics of modern painting accessible. Picasso did both naturalist representa-
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tions of his sitter real
and abstractive, schematic,
image. Even those
who
disliked
anti-figural renderings of the
deformed figures had
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Paris, Palais
to
Delegates'
Lobby
acknowledge
He had become the great go-between, easing relations between the shockingly new and established tradition. Everything he did was hailed with rapture. He was now exempt from even the smallest criticism, public comments on Picasso, paeans and panegyrics, tending to make a demi-god of him. Picasso's isolation from the art scene, and the cult that attached to his own and respect Picasso's
artistry.
person, only served to confirm traits that were already his. His
work took on 205