The artist and his art …

… Keeping an Eye Open — The Barnes & Noble Review. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In general, Barnes dislikes artists who turn themselves into celebrities by behaving badly–Picasso, Courbet, Lucian Freud–and prefers the rather aloof dedication of a Braque or a Delacroix. This preference helps to mark Barnes, for all his love of French art, as a very English kind of critic.

Well, I share his preference, and I'm not at all English. In fact, Braque is a better artist than Picasso. Check out the late lithographs of birds.