The Christian Science Monitor

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Pablo Picasso may well have been the greatest artist of the 20th century. Creative and ferociously productive over a long career, he reshaped the way artists see the world and their role in it. Every adjective associated with artistic greatness – bri

Literary Hub

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Shortly after Life with Picasso first appeared on shelves in 1964, the painter in question sued the author of the book to prevent its continued publication. Forty-four other artists signed a letter offering their support to the man who gazed at women

Creative Artist

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This dossier exhibition centres on pairing and juxtaposing related works by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). A loan of four major works from the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland includes ‘The Rescue’ (1932), ‘Seated Woman’ (Dora) (1938),’Woman in Gr

Art & Antiques

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ALEXANDER CALDER and Pablo Picasso barely knew each other, and only met four times in their lives. Their works are, at least superficially, very different. Nonetheless, an exhibition now at the de Young Museum in San Francisco makes the case for comm

Art Guide Australia

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Many artists are charged with changing the course of art—for Pablo Picasso, it’s almost an understatement. Born in 1881, the Spanish painter (and sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer) was at the forefront of Cubism, creating famous w

Literary Hub

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It’s a typical conversation-starter for authors: “What are you writing about these days?” My answering, “the Anglo-Boer War,” triggered a typical response. The interrogators would tilt their head and nod, buying time to find a way to say they had no

Guernica Magazine

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The painter on frottage, a decorative rebellion, and the destruction of the traditional family unit.

Pro Photo

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Picasso’s painting Guernica is confronting. In addition to the subject matter, there’s also its size, energy and passion to come to terms with. When standing in front of this 3.49 metres by 7.77 metres apocalyptic vision in grey, black and white, the

GQ India

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The year 1920 was a turning point in the life of artist Pablo Picasso. He’d just relocated to Paris, no longer a starving painter from Barcelona. In the wake of WWI, Picasso relaxed into and developed the styles that would become the hallmarks of his

Artists Magazine

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This collage is one of more than 300 works included in the new exhibition “Picasso and Paper,” organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris. See the exhibition

American Craft

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TX/San Antonio McNay Art Museum The Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts mcnayart.org STAGE SETS MAY BE THE MOST eloquent co-stars in any performance to never say a word. Yet as actors, choreographers, lighting designers, and others bring a show to life,

Womankind

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Pablo Picasso had both commercial and critical success as an artist. He paid for a house in the south of France with one still life painting. He was the first living artist to exhibit in the Louvre. His name is known to most, even outside of the art

NPR

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Authorities said that Picasso's "Woman's Head" and a work by the Dutch master Piet Mondrian, "Stammer Mill with Summer House," were stolen in January 2012 from the National Gallery in Athens.

Literary Hub

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In 2018, contemporary artists Adel Abdessemed and Christophe Ono-dit-Biot were invited to spend the night at the Guernica exhibition at Paris’s Picasso Museum—paradoxically, the centerpiece painting of the show was absent, since it can no longer leav

Artists Magazine

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CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART CLEVELAND, OHIO CLEVELANDART.ORG MAY 24 THROUGH AUGUST 23, 2020 Pablo Picasso’s prolonged engagement with paper is the subject of the groundbreaking exhibition “Picasso and Paper,” organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art an

Australian Home Beautiful

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WHO LIVES HERE? Candace, a gallery owner; her husband, William, a financial director; and their children, Max, 12, Tessa, nine and Stella, four; plus, their dog, Judge, and cat, Fifi. WHAT FIRST CAUGHT YOUR EYE ABOUT THIS HOME? Candace: “The view! I

Country Life

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PICASSO loved paper and he never threw a scrap of it away, firmly believing that ‘one is what one keeps’. A visit to the massive archives of the Musée Picasso in a suburb of Paris, from which about 80% of the loans to this exhibition came, reveals ex

Scoop

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Cubism was a revolutionary new way of painting invented around 1907 by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The aim was to bring different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fr

Home & Design Trends

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What began as a mere thought, as one of the ideas that sounded promising in one of our edit meetings, has now established itself not just as one of the biggest properties in WWM, (we aren’t being shamelessly arrogant here) but as one of the biggest l

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - The downtown complex that has housed the Los Angeles Times for decades is filled with notable spaces: the pristine test kitchen, the bustling newsroom and the historic Globe Lobby with its 10-foot-high murals, busts of past publishers a

Country Life

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Rebecca Stott is a writer, professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and a broadcaster on BBC Radio 4’s Point of View. Her memoir, In the Days of Rain, won the 2017 Costa Biography Award IT is hard not to see the

Architectural Digest India

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Priyanka Sharma and Dushyant Bansal are very interested in marble—but not in the way one presumes. It’s the offcuts, which remain after the main meat of the material passes through the industrial process of creation, that have captured the attention

The Critic Magazine

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IN THE PRO-BULLFIGHTING LITERATURE, appealing to the authority of cultured aficionados from past and present (Federico García Lorca, Ernest Hemingway, Mario Vargas Llosa) is a fast track to respectability. Francis Bacon is mentioned occasionally, but

MoneyWeek

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The spring auction season has arrived. Last week saw a flurry of high-profile sales, including the debuts of three modern masterpieces. First up was Pablo Picasso’s La fenêtre ouverte at Christie’s in London. The surrealist piece portraying Picasso’s

Literary Hub

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I had always loved Braque’s work and soon came to love the man, who was the antithesis of Picasso—cool, meditative, at peace. He not only looked like a saint, he behaved like one: a saint of painting. Unlike Picasso, who desperately needed admirers t

Art & Antiques

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IN 1943, LIVING in Nazi-occupied Paris amid shortages of many different kinds of goods, Pablo Picasso made a lucky find. “By chance, I managed to get hold of a stock of Japanese paper,” he wrote to his friend Brassaï, the photographer. “It cost me an

The American Scholar

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“MY LIFE IS A TANGO, my heart a Grand Guignol,” declared Max Jacob in his poem “Romantic Allusions to Mardi-Gras.” He could have listed many other such contradictions. Born in Brittany in 1876 to a secular Jewish shopkeeping family, Jacob was a conve

Futurity

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Researchers have non-invasively analyzed a priceless group of 39 bronzes and 11 painted sheet metal sculptures by Pablo Picasso. “We now can begin to write a new chapter in the history of this prolific giant of modern art,” says Francesca Casadio, th

Belle

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Reflecting on the role of the artist as world-builder, Matilda Davis stages her very own creation myths (left), folding in idiosyncratic and subversive motifs from kabuki theatre, kids’ toys and tales by Enid Blyton and C. S. Lewis. ‘I have something

Amateur Photographer

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Canon USA has added five photographers to its Explorers of Light program. The diverse list includes British fashion photographer Lara Jade who is now based in New York. Lara started her career as a self-portrait photographer and eventually found her