"Chaos and Classicism" at the Guggenheim

Ile-de-France, Aristide Maillol, 1925
Sculpture — the art form most closely associated with antiquity — took on a new importance after the war, perhaps in part as a counterweight to the maimed and amputated bodies produced by the war. Maillol turned away from the convulsive figuration of Rodin in favor of firmly modeled figures borrowed from Greece and Rome.

• Picasso at the Metropolitan Museum of Art