If you call it a picnic, it’s a picnic. Who is to argue with Rosalie Gascoigne when she explained her sculpture is based on an actual picnic organized by James Mollison. It was held on a mountain on a windy day. So, the wire netting captures air; the birds represent kangaroos, and the glass jars […] read more

Among Picasso’s many unappealing variations of Manet’s Le dejeuner sur l’herbe is a large sculpture of disunited figures. Great blobs of concrete, ironically, sitting on the grass. But there is no lunch, no food, no picnic. Featured Image: Carl Nesjar Pablo Picasso’s After Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass (1964-1966), sandblasted concrete. Stockholm Museum of […] read more

George Segal’s The Asian Picnic (1996) is a group of picnickers on the grass or a beach. Segal’s métier is to make plaster casts of life-size human figures and then assemble them in various settings. The Asian Picnic has three picnickers who have spread a picnic cloth and unpacked their food and drinks—and there it […] read more