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Picasso mistress and subject is at the forefront to me. His art often reflected on what he was feeling about his mistress and dare I call them his royal subjects? Picasso's mistress' and subjects of art filled many a Picasso canvas. Personally I am not fond of that side of him because he did not hesitate to humiliate. It cannot be denied however that his art was genius.
Ahh the tortured genius.
I have considered the interesting facts about Picasso and realize as an artist that YES, it is OK to have different styles of work. Different periods of time, different interests, like Picasso's interest in African art influenced different explorations of expression. His "Blue Period" was another as well as cubism and his efforts in clay and pottery. So hey! If Picasso could have different styles so can I! Not that I would let that stop me. lol.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973),
Birth name Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso
Born October 25, 1881
Malaga, Spain
Died April 8, 1973 (aged 91)
Mougins, France
Nationality Spanish
Field Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Printmaking, Ceramics
Training Jose Ruíz (father), Academy of Arts, Madrid
Movement Cubism
Famous works Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
Guernica (1937) The Weeping Woman (1937)
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Picasso was relentless about doing his art. He continually tried new things. He stepped out unafraid of what people might think and did art.An Article of interest:
Pablo Picasso's Guernica
Pablo Picasso's Guernica-a powerful and shocking image of modernwarefare-depicts the chaos wrought by German bombers on a small town during the Spanish Civil War.
Guernica is considered to be one of the visual art worlds greatest anti-war works and Picasso's greatest masterpiece. Despite the enormous interest the painting generated in his lifetime, Picasso obstinately refused to explain Guernica's imagery. Guernica has been the subject of more books than any other work in modern art and it is often described as%u2026"the most important work of art of the twentieth century", yet its meanings have to this day eluded some of the most renowned scholars.
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How to Feel Sexy When Sex is the Last Thing on Your Mind and Why Older Women Should Keep Trying
by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
Ahh those Picasso women, old and young....Are there beautiful older 'sexy' women? Feeling as if we are beautiful while being older women and sexy too is hard! Sometimes it all just seems to close down, isn't it true? There is a certain dullness that sets in and we just don't feel like embracing sexuality in our daily lives. Yet, it is a part of us, ignore it or not.
How to feel sexy when things just feel flat. It's a daunting subject when you feel settled with who you 'think' you are at fifty, sixty or even seventy. Why bother we think at times, isn't it true? In the latter years we often lose touch with that side of ourselves. Wrinkles, excess pounds and cellulite that has settled in, kids long gone, and life just changes. Our personalities are oft times created by things outside ourselves and we embrace them because they are pleasurable, but also maybe because it just feels safe and next experience in line.
Many women claim that at fifty and after, they feel a certain confidence about themselves and consider themselves free...finally. I believe that is true, but I also think sexuality is put on the back shelf. It just feels easier and maybe safer somehow.
If you pay attention to the media 'too much' your confidences are often deflated and if you are like me at all, you might feel like a figurine on the shelf, dust collecting, as the world whizzes by you. Television especially tells us that if we are not in our early 20's, we are past the age of desirability. We are permeated with the concept that men 'only' look at young women and that is just the way men are.
There is no denying that men are visual, but I don't that 'all' of them are mindless. My goodness I sure hope not!
We 'are' sexual beings and our bodies are designed to feel pleasure, it is who we are and to deny that part, is to deny a part of our own identity, shutting it down and believing what the media tells us.
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So lets feel sexy (again)!!
How to is the question at hand.
I personally think it is a state of mind, yes a simple mind set. Here are a few ideas:
1) Learn to flirt again! I am not ready to be put on the shelf! No way! I embrace the idea of feeling sexy as I talk in a somewhat flirtatious manner. Remember flirting? Not to worry, I am not suggesting you start coming on to your friends husbands, don't misunderstand. I am suggesting that flirting with the idea of feeling sexual and being 'playful' and 'girly' can be fun and not all that outside of the box. Create that 'attitude' and it will become you.
2) Consider changing your hair. That is a fantastic way to reinvent yourself and get past the dullness. Maybe a little longer so the breezes can touch the ends of your locks, reminding you that the wind is as free as you can be.
3) Reconsider your wardrobe and get the heck out of Sears!
4) Exercise, diet and do it for YOU!
5) Get your toes done, even if only every six months.
6) Reconsider your make up. Are you still wearing it the same way you did when in high school? Sounds funny but you know that many are.
7) Watch your walk... connect with that 'graceful' side and rethink your stride.
8) Rethink your stride in life... YOU are important and your sexuality is a genuine part of who you are as a woman. Be the rainbow you long to know.
Feeling sexy as an older woman is right there within your grasp...It's an attitude.
The image is of my sculpture "Bleeding Wings 5"
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Pablo Picasso: Guernica, 1937, oil on canvas, 349 × 776 cm
7 Interesting Facts About Pablo Picasso
by Brandon Fuhrmann
1. Pablo Picasso's Full Name is Extremely Long
Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuseno Maria de los remedies Ciprano de la Santasima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso! That was quite a mouthful! Pablo Picasso's name is one of the longest ever recorded for an artist or any person for that matter. His name is a combination of respect for Spanish and Christian sainthood and family heritage. There are a few names of important saints and beloved relatives, his mother and father's names, and the rest are a combination of ideas and personal characteristics, in which the Spanish believed are best included in a birth name. Inevitably, a rose by any other name is still a rose, and Pablo Picasso and his long name illustrated that saying, in the grandest of fashions.
2. Baby Pablo Almost Stillborn
When baby Pablo was born, the midwife actually thought that he was stillborn and left the newborn genius on a pediatrician table and was not given another thought! The midwife went to Pablo's mother to inform her of the sad news, and a miracle occurred during this time. Pablo's uncle was also the attending physician who delivered the baby! Dr. Don Salvador is credited with saving the life of newborn Pablo.
3. Little Picasso's First Spoken Word 'Pencil'
Picasso's early childhood developmental years were filled with education and wonder! His very first spoken-word was 'piz' or 'pencil', in English. If this was not a clue to the future-occupation and career-path of young Picasso, then nothing short of having a label on his back that said 'artist-to-be' would have been any clearer!
4. Pablo's Very First Oil Based Drawing
'Le Picador', was created in 1890, by Pablo Picasso, at the tender age of nine. The first work by Picasso depicted a man riding a horse in the blood-sport that is bull fighting. This form of spectator-event is still widely-popular in many parts of Spain.
5. Pablo Picasso's 'First Communion' First Academic Painting
Although Pablo's first foray into artistic endeavors was 'Le Picador' at nine in 1890, his very first academic all painting was not painted until six years later. The work, 'First Communion', is a portrait of his mother, father, and youngest sister, all kneeling before an altar in a church setting. Pablo Picasso was only 15 when he created this masterpiece, and this work is considered one of his most-treasured of all!
6. Pablo Picasso and His Academic Career
There is little argument that Pablo Picasso was a brilliant man, yet his academic career record does not reflect this fact. Pablo had little trouble passing the entrance exams of every artistic institution of higher learning, from Madrid to Paris, which he desired to gain entry into. It was the empirically-proven mark of a tortured artist, after time and time again of Pablo burning-out and leaving school after one or two semesters. This did not make any difference after he became successful after 'First Communion', yet was a clear sign that brilliant individuals sometimes have difficulty in a structured formal classroom setting.
7. Pablo Picasso's First Job in Paris
The first job that Pablo Picasso was to be paid upon was with his landlord/art dealer, Pere Menach. The agreed-upon sum was 150 francs per month, which in today's money, equates to about $750 USD. Not a bad sum of money back in the day and one that allowed young Pablo to exercise his creativity and to develop his personal characteristics, that would carry him through the rest of his long life.
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Facts About Pablo Picasso's "Guernica"
WHAT'S SO CONTROVERSIAL ABOUT PICASSO'S GUERNICA? by David Cohen
http://www.slate.com/id/2078242/
Earlier this week, U.N. officials hung a blue curtain over a tapestry reproduction of Picasso's Guernica at the entrance of the Security Council. The spot is where diplomats and others make statements to the press, and ostensibly officials thought it would be inappropriate for Colin Powell to speak about war in Iraq with the 20th century's most iconic protest against the inhumanity of war as his backdrop. Why is Guernica such a powerfully controversial image after all these years, and how did it come to hang in tapestry form at the United Nations?
Guernica is a mural, 11 feet 6 inches high and 25 feet 8 inches wide, which commemorates the aerial bombardment-and obliteration-of the ancient Basque town of 5,000 inhabitants by German and Italian squadrons on April 26, 1937. It has justifiably been held to be one of the masterpieces of modern art. A modern history painting, Guernica self-consciously draws on archetypal forms the artist was exploring at the time: bulls, horses, melancholy women-particularly Spanish themes that were nonetheless classical and universal. Picasso used a distinctive pictorial language to convey meaning in a broadly accessible way without compromising the hermetic originality of the artist's style; the chopped-up, fragmentary treatment of form makes the image more startling and conveys violence. Most notable, though, is the painting's audaciously stark absence of color-Guernica is painted solely in black and white and gray tones. Black-and-white images carry symbolic as well as graphic punch, of course, and, to a contemporary audience used to black-and-white newspapers and film, the added connotation of objectivity.
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Art critic David Cohen is editor of the online journal artcritical.com and gallery director at the New York Studio School.
Photo of Guernica tapestry by Mark Lennihan/AP/Wide World Photos.
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Picasso's Weeping Woman
An Interesting Article:Hitler's resolve to castrate modern artists only strengthened Picasso's obsession with the bullish minotaur, writes Robert Nelson.
PICASSO'S PICTURE-making during World War II was a powerful form of resistance. I heard this claim at the launch of the current Picasso blockbuster, made by the curator of the exhibition, Anna Baldassari.
Something about this imputed heroism - and about Picasso himself - filled me with sceptical thoughts.
Picasso did paint one direct commentary on war, his mural-sized Guernica from 1936; but this famous picture is the exception that proves the rule.
For the rest, Picasso's pictorial agonies seem to lack a moral or political frame and, instead, you get a great sense of an artist proud of his masculinity.
I've always felt that the image of the weeping woman in Picasso proceeds straight from the artist's ego. The spectacle of female pain and vulnerability flatters the artist's power and boastful privileges - at the expense of female gratification - of exercising an imaginary superhuman potency.
For years, Picasso identifies with the image of the minotaur and once went so far as to describe the bull-man archetype as analogous to himself. This mythical creature is conveniently revived from ancient Greece as a grandiose pretext for showing off; for it allows Picasso to hang upon the human frame the formidable head and testicles of a bull.
What kind of courage did it really take Picasso to advertise his randy instincts? How can his manifest indulgence - supported by an establishment of collectors and museums - be construed as an act of resistance?
Never was ancient myth so prostituted in the service of an artist's delusion, and never were such fantasies turned so successfully to the marketing of conceit and the pomposity of genius. How can we celebrate all that big-headedness, especially when transacted in an age of mass extermination?
The Picasso exhibition at the NGV has made me rethink some of those claims to which previously I'd given no credence. It is a serious study of the relationship between Picasso and his volatile lover and model of the war years, Dora Maar, an interesting artist in her own right.
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Weeping Woman
Picasso's Weeping Woman pt 2
Anna Baldassari is more than the curator of the current exhibition; she's also the author of a learned monograph accompanying it. Among many fascinating historical explorations, this eloquent book introduces some chilling facts concerning the culture of the German occupation in which Picasso was domiciled.In Picasso's library, Baldassari found a volume of a magazine (Lit tout) summarising Hitler's policy on art. It described a strategy so unsettling that I decided to check to see if the report on Hitler's plans was really true. So I hunted down the 'Urtext' to find a loathsome document that is predictably painful to read. This awful exercise proves the truth of the account that Picasso would have read in Lit tout.
In 1937, Hitler gave the inaugural address at the opening of the "Haus der deutschen Kunst". This was a defining moment in Nazi cultural history, launching not only the severe neo-classical building by the architect Paul Ludwig Troost, but announcing what kind of art should go into it. The only profession for which Hitler had any training was art; he had a special interest in controlling it and approached it with a vengeance.
Hitler's philosophy of art is much as you would expect. He hates modern fads and fashions; he wants to see eternal greatness and absolute beauty, as of the Greeks, beyond time and transcending the happenstance and contingencies of the epoch. Art should aspire to universal virtues and beauty.
These tenets, structurally speaking, are the same kind of essentialist aesthetic still pursued by some writers today who denounce the relativism of critical theory in contemporary art. But Hitler's diatribe against modern art isn't just an expression of scorn and contempt, such as conservatives rehearse still today.
By 1937, Hitler was not merely venting his frustration but redesigning the world to his plan. Just as he was determined to eliminate Jewry and homosexuality from Aryan dominion, so he was prepared to stamp out, by whatever means, the congenital sickness that expressed itself in modern art.
Towards the end of his somewhat reasoned speech, Hitler comes to the crunch. In regard to the distortions and perversions of modern art, he declares:
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Picasso's Weeping Woman pt 3
"There are only two possibilities: either these so-called 'artists' really see things in that way and believe in the (appearance of) things that they represent, in which case it would only remain to investigate whether their ocular failure has arisen in a mechanical way or through inheritance ('Vererbung')."In the one case, it is deeply sad for these unfortunate ones, in the second, important for the Ministry for the Interior, which would then have to concern itself with the question of how, at the very least, to prevent ('unterbinden') further inheritance of such a ghastly disturbance of vision."
by Robert Nelson
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/balls-to-picassos-masculinity/2006/09/08/1157222309194.html?page=3
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Bitterness and Betrayal Forgiven Beyond the Wounded Sky
by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
Ohhh that Picasso, such a ladies man...Oh bitterness
what a torment
falling on dreams
blocking them out
so easily.
What a terrible sting
and pathetic song
that seems to penetrate everything
colors drowned
Pain that never seems to end
no matter
how far away
one travels
or what one does
to try to get through
those memorized heartaches.
Reasons to feel angry
always on ones mind
twists of fate
even hurricanes of unkindness
words
deeds
unleashed
never to be taken back?
Never to be forgotten?
Selfish maybe?
Embracing the idea of betrayal
magnifying its hurtful deeds
trampled flowers
unfaithful arms of love
forever dying.
Flaws pointed to
and put to question
that have no pure answers.
Rivers without water
in a true loves eye
blinded
and so sadly denied
within the bitter strokes
of condemnation.
Accounts kept
measuring worth
deciding which excuses
will be heard
and the ones to remember
forever
despite the bleeding
costs.
Coping with the surprise
that memories
when tainted
become painted
with whatever vengeance
the heart leans to.
Cruel quotes
or forgiveness
move forward
depending
on their prompted direction.
Choices
looking away
ready to settle arguments
or never overlooking those sins.
Charm bracelets of trinkets
building on what could have been
held together by disappointments
or letting them be golden
seems so simple
but no
not with bitterness
on ones shoulder.
Loneliness
for the one right next to you
breathing on their pillow
dark nights
set to words that feel empty.
Run or stay
there is no magic
when caution is the only
sound
around.
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Men Approaching Women and the Women Who Tease Them - What Are the Rules?
by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
Speaking of Picasso's love life ....OK, you are walking down the street and some guy starts calling out, "Hey Baby". You don't look up, nor sideways and don't even entertain his odd way of 'complimenting' (?) you. Logical, it's all logical, and surely men know that.
Online there are men seeking women and vice versa of course but for this article I am addressing us women. Men online can be just as bold on the internet, even more so, often approaching women with very little finesse and just like the "Hey Baby" guy.
And yet.. there are a lot of lonely people out there and it is sometimes difficult to sift through the boldness of some mens behavior. Is it a compliment or not? Do you reply after gentle compliments? My heart yes, why would you not acknowledge a compliment? Also, for me and a lot of people I was raised to have good manners and to be kind to everyone. At times it becomes confusing!
Where do you draw the line though and how do you know when that line should be drawn, because so often, yes indeed a line must be drawn.
There will forever be such a thing as teasing. There is nothing wrong with enjoying and accepting a compliment, who does not appreciate a compliment? But, women must be aware, especially if they are married or in a committed relationship, that lines must be drawn and they must be made clear early on. Anything else might be misconstrued and considered teasing. Not nice. I think I have personally been guilty of said teasing but as I write this, I get it. I confess to being confused because I also admit at times to being vulnerable to a compliment.
Decide ladies 'why' you are online. What are you doing? Do you know? If not and if you are in a committed relationship, first things first, decide what you want out of your efforts online. Is it business or is it pleasure? If it is pleasure, where is that line drawn and how far do you plan on going with it needs to be understood by YOU? Are you teasing?
The image is of one of my sculptures from my Bleeding Wings series.
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Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier. - Review - book reviewArt in America, June, 2001 by Michele C. Cone
Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier, with a foreword by Marilyn McCully and an epilogue by John Richardson, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001;296 pages, $35.
Would we be interested in Dora Maar and Fernande Olivier, had they never entered the Picasso vortex? Until recently, the answer was no, despite the fact that, prior to meeting Picasso, Maar and Olivier had both achieved unusual independence, the former as a professional photographer and the latter as a popular artists' model. Mary Ann Caws's biography, profusely illustrated with examples of Maar's photographic and painted works, is intended to redress the view of Maar as "just the weeping woman" in Picasso's oeuvre. The private journal of Olivier, with a foreword by Marilyn McCully and an epilogue by John Richardson, is also intended to evidence its author's special talent, in her case as a memorialist.
In her biography of Maar, Caws, best known as a feminist literary scholar and translator of Surrealist texts, is most interested in her subject's brief association with the Surrealists in 1935 and 1936. Caws glosses over Maar's early years in Argentina, where she lived from the age of three to the age of 19, and briefly evokes the young woman's student work in photography done in Parts in the late '20s. Soon she draws our eyes to Maar's first "professional" photographs (coauthored with the man who shared her studio in the early '30s, Pierre Kefer). There is no question that Maar displayed precocious signs of an unconventional, possibly "surreal" turn of mind, as in a double-profile photomontage from the early '30s, a plunging view from the late '20s of a Paris street in the manner of Atget, and a circa 1927 study of a rock formation that calls to mind the wrinkled folds of aged skin. (All of these photographs and more are beautifully reproduced in Picasso's Weeping Woman.)
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Pablo Picasso Quotes
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
If there is something to steal, I steal it!.
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding.
When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering Cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
People want to find a "meaning" in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
~Pablo Picasso
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Picasso And 10 Things You May Not Have Known
by Paul Sympnds
Picasso was more than just a great painter and there is much about his life that still remains unknown to most of the world even today! Here is a list of 10 things that you may have not known about the Picasso.
1. In addition to being a talented painter, Picasso was also one of the world's most versatile stage designers, ceramic artists, printmakers and sculptors and writers. He could have made a name for himself in any of these areas but chose to focus on painting.
2. Although famous today, Picasso had a tough start and suffered under conditions of great poverty. When he was a young painter, Picasso burned his own paintings in order to keep warm at night.
3. Picasso also produced 100,000 engravings and 34,000 illustrations for books. His ceramic and sculpture designs account for 300 pieces.
4. Some of Picasso's paintings are today considered to be very valuable and almost priceless. In 2004, his original 'Garcon a la Pipe' was bought by a collector for $104 million USD. The beautiful 'Les Noces de Pierrette' or the 'Marriage of Pierrette' brought in $51.6 million US.
5. In 1944 Picasso began a torrid love affair with Francoise Gilot, one of his art students, but it ended nine years later because he cheated on her.
6. At age 72, Picasso suffered a deep depression and to calm himself and find peace, he began another affair, which turned out to be his shortest. He got engaged to a young girl by the name of Genevieve Laporte, but ended it after just 6 weeks.
7. Picasso's first exhibition was at the tender age of 13, which he planned himself in the backroom of an umbrella store.
8. In 1936, when Guernica in Spain fell to the ravages of the Spanish Civil War, Picasso became livid with rage and sought refuge in art. He quickly set to work to document the brutality at Guernica in a painting that took a mere three weeks to produce and was named in honour of the city.
9. Bull's head, one of Picasso's well known sculptures, is actually made out of two parts from an old bicycle. Picasso experimented with various materials in his art and even toyed with junk.
10. When he was young and just starting out as a painter, Picasso lived in a garret and painted by the light of a single candle in an old bottle.
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Here is Picasso at the height of his powers in Rome and Naples, producing the sets and costumes with Cocteau for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and visiting Pompei where the antique statuary fuel his obsession with classicism; in Paris, creating some of his most important sculpture and painting as part of a group that included Braque, Apollinaire, Miró, and Breton; spending summers in the South of France in...0 points
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Picasso (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) by Gertrude Stein
Intimate, revealing memoir of Picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure. Highly readable amalgam of biographical fact, artistic and aesthetic comments: Picasso as founder of Cubism, associate of Apollinaire, Braque, Derain, other notables; titanic, creative spirit. One of Stein's most accessible works. 61 black-and-white illustrations. Index.0 points
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Surviving Picasso
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A Picasso Portfolio: Prints from The Museum of Modern Art by Deborah Wye, Pablo Picasso
Printmaking was fundamental to Pablo Picasso's artistic vision. Over his long career, he made well over 2,000 printed images, focusing on the intaglio techniques of etching, engraving, drypoint and aquatint, as well as on lithography and linoleum cut. This publication, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, explores Picasso's creative process in printmaking starting in the early years of the twentieth century with his Blue and Rose periods, and extending up to the last...0 points
Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition by Susan Grace Galassi, Marilyn McCully
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is acknowledged as one of the greatest draftsmen of the 20th century. Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921 follows the dazzling development of his drawing practice from the precocious academic exercises of his youth to his renewal of classicism in his virtuoso output of the early 1920s. A selection of more than seventy works on paper, with extended entries, highlights his stylistic experiments and techniques during this roughly thirty-year period, which begins and ends in a classical...
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Who Was Pablo Picasso? by True Kelley
Over a long, turbulent life, Picasso continually discovered new ways of seeing the world and translating it into art. A restless genius, he went through a blue period, a rose period, and a Cubist phase. He made collages, sculptures out of everyday objects, and beautiful ceramic plates. True Kelley?s engaging biography is a wonderful introduction to modern art.
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Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
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Matisse / Picasso - Twin Giants of Modern Art
You have to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at the time. No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he. Picasso
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) are the acknowledged twin giants of modern art, between them having originated many of the most significant innovations of twentieth-century painting and sculpture. This film is an encounter with the two pioneers, two adventurers...
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Shout Out For Picasso ~ Tell me YOU WERE HERE.. like him or not ~
Share your stories, sightings, thoughts, rants, raves...
Thanks for stopping by,
Kathy
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poldepc May 21, 2012 @ 3:03 am | delete
- Great Lens; next to one of my biggest passions to travel, I would like to paint aquarels; most of all I would like to be a hobbyist painter with the Picasso style
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Atreyusmommy May 7, 2012 @ 2:59 pm | delete
- Thanks for creating such an informative and interesting lens on Picasso. I featured your lens on my "My fiance's theories" lens. Thank you for sharing!
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Donnette
May 2, 2012 @ 1:35 am | delete
- Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
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Tipi
Apr 7, 2012 @ 10:25 pm | delete
- Pablo Picasso seems to be a person beyond understanding but you sure have done the leg work to help us along that path a bit further...I really like some of his work and some of his just isn't my taste at all....we'll never know if the burned paintings were the really good ones. Brilliantly done Kathy, I was hoping he'd be more likable but...!...blessed!...*
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YayasHome
Mar 30, 2012 @ 5:07 am | delete
- So many creative people like Pablo Picasso seem to have extreme mental difficulties. I feel so sad for them when it seems that they are trying to run away from their pain by burying themselves in their talent.
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Irenemaria
Mar 21, 2012 @ 7:07 pm | delete
- He was an unusual person and artist indeed.
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CruiseReady Feb 22, 2012 @ 11:22 am | delete
- I remember 'discovering' Picasso as a kid in art history class, and how impressed I was... he's STILL impressive so many years later!
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Mujjen
Feb 22, 2012 @ 2:34 am | delete
- Imagine that he had to burn his paintings to keep warm, what a shame!
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VKumar
Feb 8, 2012 @ 1:18 pm | delete
- Great Lens about a great genius.
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Richard3331
Feb 8, 2012 @ 3:03 am | delete
- I love bumping into you on my travels Hi
This is a great lens
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flipflopju
Feb 8, 2012 @ 2:04 am | delete
- I just saw a Picasso to Warhol exhibit in Atlanta and yet I learned more from your lens than the exhibit.
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Claude
Feb 7, 2012 @ 1:55 pm | delete
- Picasso's Confession
The people no longer seek consolation on inspiration in art,
but the refined people, the rich, the idlers, seek the new, the extraordinary, the original, the extravagant, the scandalous. And myself since epic of cubism, I have contented these people with all the many bizare things that have come into
my head and the less they understood the more they admired. Today, you know,
I am very famous and very rich, but when i am alone with myself, I have not the courage to concider myself as an artist, I am only a public entertainer who has understood his times.
(Published in the Living Musem) Rorran
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goo2eyes
Feb 6, 2012 @ 5:39 pm | delete
- winging back to share some squidangel *blessings*.
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collettehrock
Feb 1, 2012 @ 7:26 am | delete
- I really enjoyed this lens and I found out a lot about him that I didn't know, and with being given the name of a lot of saints, he sure had a lot to live up to. I tend to separate the bad things about him, from the work that he did, as an artist he was brilliant, as a person well did treating people like he did end up making him happy, as you said he ended up suffering from a deep depression.
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DessertLover
Jan 12, 2012 @ 1:34 pm | delete
- Wow, this lens is awesome! I feel like I learned so much! I never knew that he had such a long name - and truly it is a LONG name!! lol thank you for sharing this!
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Upon-Request Jan 12, 2012 @ 11:03 am | delete
- What a great lens - I'm an admirer of Picasso's works but learned so much more about him today. Hard to believe he once burned his own paintings to keep warm!
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karmicchristian
Dec 7, 2011 @ 1:29 am | delete
- Very interesting read. Most geniuses have their darker and more eccentric side and figure that Pablo is no different!
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WaynesWorld
Dec 6, 2011 @ 8:19 pm | delete
- There is a book called, "How to Become an Alpha Male" I found a link if you're interested: http://www.sosuave.com/dating/how-to-become-an-alpha-male.pdf
Anyway the guy talks about how there is a need factor with relationships and for whatever reason the more you need someone the less they need you. So if you treat your significant other with a bit of disdain they actually try to please you more? I don't know if this is where Picasso was coming from in regards to women but it would make sense. I asked a friend of mine what his dad had told him about women, "Get them young and treat em' rough."
I've been married for 21 years and never tried any of that crap, there was a time in my drinking days that my wife got PO'd with me and gave me the silent treatment. It lasted 3 days before she made the first move to reconcile, that really is the only time I ever used any sort of manipulation (and I wasn't even aware of it.)
My niece married a guy and stuck with him for 3 years even though he treated her badly before they got married, in her words, "I thought I could change him."
I've seen guys that were really successful in different areas and they all seemed to float on their own clouds of BS.
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kathysart
Dec 7, 2011 @ 2:20 pm | delete
- Humm.. well I think Picasso was a great artist but an immature ass. Marriage is a relationship of the heart, if one is manipulating the other then the heart is diminished and the love between as well. I've never respected brow beating men. I might respect some of their attributes, as with Picasso, but not the man.
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Tolovaj
Dec 5, 2011 @ 5:30 pm | delete
- About his treatment of his ladies... I believe it always take two to tango!
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RenaissanceWoman2010
Dec 4, 2011 @ 11:39 am | delete
- I gained a great deal of information and insight here. Love your sculpture (Bleeding Wings 5). Wow! Very impressive. Picasso is still an enigma, as perhaps are all artists. Stimulating collection of art and perspectives here. Thanks!
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Helenee
Dec 4, 2011 @ 3:02 am | delete
- I might have missed sthg, but I can't seem to find the link between Picasso and Bowie, except that they were/are both extremely talented and ingenuous, and created things according to their own fantasy, not caring about conventions.
One of my favourite quotes ever is "Imagination exists, but it has to find you working." It was said by Pablo.
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kathysart
Dec 4, 2011 @ 10:19 am | delete
- Picasso and Bowie? Only that Bowie honored Picasso with a song.. written about him.
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aesta1
Nov 29, 2011 @ 8:24 pm | delete
- Enjoyed reading your lens. Thanks for sharing much more.
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gypsyman27
Nov 26, 2011 @ 8:25 pm | delete
- Once again, he was a great artist. I can only hope to get close to his life's achievements when my time is over here. See you around the galaxy...
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spartakct
Nov 1, 2011 @ 6:19 pm | delete
- wonderful lens!
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Lifeboost
Oct 30, 2011 @ 5:21 pm | delete
- What a fascinating treasure trove of interesting information! I knew very little about Picasso until now, and had no idea how fascinating his background and art are! Thanks for the introduction! :)
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QuinnWolf
May 30, 2011 @ 11:31 am | delete
- Great lens. What I don't understand is why painters like Picasso and Pollock were misogynists. I think most of the time misogyny is alcholol influenced and a lot of creative people tend to have substance abuse issues..
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SereneSea May 25, 2011 @ 9:22 pm | delete
- Not being aware of his personal life, it is interesting to know the other side of Picasso. Still, his art is very powerful and leaves a strong print in the layers of mind.
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Miximports
May 4, 2011 @ 11:00 pm | delete
- Very nice lens and loved to learn few more curiosities about Picasso and his life. It is funny as I thought I had an extremely long name 5 in total, but I think he breaks the record!
Thanks you for stopping by my paper quilling cards lens and for your sweet comment:)
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mattseefood
May 4, 2011 @ 8:38 pm | delete
- Really interesting. You know a LOT! :)
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chrispell017
May 2, 2011 @ 3:06 pm | delete
- nice lens very interesting. love the weeping woman!
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GeoffSteen May 2, 2011 @ 5:31 am | delete
- I love the Weeping Woman; I first saw it at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool (assuming it's the same version).
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NYThroughTheLens
Apr 23, 2011 @ 10:47 am | delete
- Great lens!
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PeterStreep
Apr 9, 2011 @ 12:29 pm | delete
- Good to see a personal opinion lens, instead of facts from wiki. Yes the personal side of an artist and his work are often two different things. Picasso was a genius and influenced thousands of other artists. But still, his relationships with women was notorious.
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Margo_Arrowsmith
Apr 5, 2011 @ 5:52 pm | delete
- Lots of information
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Christene
Nov 15, 2010 @ 5:51 pm | delete
- Blessed by a SquidAngel :)
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Christene
Nov 15, 2010 @ 5:51 pm | delete
- Blessed by a SquidAngel :)
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artyfax Nov 8, 2010 @ 12:44 pm | delete
- Interesting, although I have never really taken to cubism or Picasso. I admire his academic works but never quite took to paintings after his blue period. I do like a lot of abstract work however, just not his style
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bakerwoman Sep 26, 2010 @ 3:26 pm | delete
- I think Picasso's art is overrated. And he is famous and a household name in the art world. There are a lot of artists out there that deserve recognition. Thanks for sharing his side as a mysogynist.
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BuckHawk
Sep 25, 2010 @ 3:37 pm | delete
- Clearly a talented artist, but a tortured man to say the least. Hopefully, he fulfilled something in his life rather than just his art.
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hlkljgk Sep 25, 2010 @ 12:54 pm | delete
- certainly an intriguing artist :)
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blurba
Oct 30, 2008 @ 3:12 pm | in reply to heyada | delete
- heyada,
you have a weird name 1st off. 2nd i think picasso is dumb that i have to learn about him. he cheats on his wives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3rd off... HES DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!! nobody cares about a dead person. (unless its me of course)
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heyada
Oct 29, 2008 @ 4:39 pm | delete
- i'm doing an art project on picasso and this really helped me!!!! picasso rules!!!
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cari
Sep 8, 2008 @ 11:11 am | delete
- i am a student at caister high school and i chose picasso for my art project i thought i knew it all but this has taught me alot thank you any way great lens.
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Irenemaria
Jun 18, 2008 @ 10:28 am | delete
- Senor Picasso was really one of a kind! Nice lens!
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RichLeigh Jun 15, 2008 @ 10:35 pm | delete
- Great lens there Kathy, a definite 5 stars from me!
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funwithtrains
May 15, 2008 @ 9:57 am | delete
- Another great lens by you! 5 stars and a favorite from me! Please visit my Turbulence Training lens.
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larrybla
May 1, 2008 @ 11:31 am | delete
- No doubt Picasso was a great artist. However he did borrow heavily from African art. In his own words, "If there is something to steal, I steal it!."
Thanksys for the extensive information.
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dtbs Apr 18, 2008 @ 10:55 am | delete
- picasso was definitely an innovator! great lens! please check mine out here------------> squidoo.com/dtbs
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Evelyn_Saenz
Apr 10, 2008 @ 10:10 pm | delete
- I love Picasso's paintings and the way his technique changed over time.
Vincent VanGogh is another of my favorites.
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123tiny
Apr 8, 2008 @ 5:01 pm | delete
- I love Picasso's art even though i am still young.this is a great lens!!!!!
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EclecticWAHM Feb 12, 2008 @ 1:23 pm | delete
- I love Picasso's work. It's always interesting to learn about the artist. Another terrific lens!
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BarbosaArt
Nov 17, 2007 @ 7:44 am | delete
- I am a big fan of Picasso! 5 stars and a lensroll to The Starving Artist
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