Constant Joy.
"A painting is not a composition of color and line but an animal, a night, a scream, a human being or all of these things together" proclaimed CoBrA cofounder Constant (b. 1920) in his 1948 Manifesto. Painting soon palled, and by 1956 Constant the Situationist was exclusively devising visionary architecture and urban plans. By the early '60s, he'd split with his fellow Situationists in protest of their advocacy of anti-art. The Musee Picasso, Antibes Antibes (äNtēb`), resort town (1990 pop. 70,688), in Alpes-Maritimes dept., SE France, on the Riviera. It is a seaport and the center of a great flower-growing region; a school of horticulture is there. Nearby is the fashionable resort Cap d'Antibes. The town was founded as a Greek colony in the 4th cent. B.C., celebrates Constant with a first French retrospective (June 28-Oct. 22): Director Maurice Frechuret assembles more than 100 drawings, paintings, and architectural sketches from all periods of this permanent revolutionary's career.
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