Pablo Picasso

75 years of Picasso's Guernica: An Inconvenient Masterpiece

Alejandro Escalona | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Pablo Picasso, Hispanic Heritage, Guernica, Guernica Anniversary, Picasso, Latino Voices News
Alejandro Escalona

Guernica is to painting what Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is to music: a cultural icon that speaks to mankind not only against war but also of hope and peace. It is a reference when speaking about genocide from El Salvador to Bosnia.

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Happy Birthday Salvador Dali!

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Video, Arts News, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, The Persistence of Memory, Surrealism, Joan Miro, Art Birthday, Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Arts News

Today is the birthday of everyone's favorite mustachioed surrealist painter, Salvador Dali. The eccentric Spaniard, who was a lover of all things gild...

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Man Gets Lucky, Finds Picasso Print Worth Thousands

AP | BARBARA RODRIGUEZ | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Video, Pablo Picasso, Thrift Shopping, Thrift Shop Find, Zach Bodish, Art Sales, Picasso, Money News

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An unemployed Ohio man was browsing at his local thrift store for items he could restore and resell when he spotted a Picasso poster...

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Sir Damien Hirst: Artist or Entrepreneur?

David Galenson | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Tate Modern, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Michael Skapinker, Damien Hirst, Slidepollajax, Arts News
David Galenson

Hirst's enormous financial success, and the conspicuous delight he takes in it, have produced anguish, envy and outright hostility among many in England's staid and priggish art world, who cling to the ancient ideal that artists should be secular priests, who take vows of poverty and regard money as a source of corruption.

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What Artists Do While Waiting for the Next Inspiration

Daniel Grant | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Ben Shahn, Pablo Picasso, Will Barnet, Janet Fish, Sandy Skoglund, Edward Hopper, Business of Art, Mental Blocks, Rossini, Arts News
Daniel Grant

No artist is free from dry periods or mental blocks, when the old ideas seem to lead nowhere and new ones are hard to find. Different artists have approached the problem in various ways.

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The Ugly Ideals Of Beauty

Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Video, Body Image, Janet Werner, Female Image, Slidepollajax, Pablo Picasso, Adolescents, Self-Esteem, Weegee, Female Artists, Parisian Laundry, Arts News

Sometimes after flipping through a magazine full of Photoshopped models and airbrushed celebs, confronting the mirror as a (gasp!) regular person can ...

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Picasso And The 'The Eternal Feminine'

Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Guernica, Madrid, Fundación Canal, Guernica Magazine, Jaqueline Roque, Pablo Picasso, Lucy McKeon, Picasso, Pablo Picasso Prints, Female Nudes, Arts News

Madrid, March 2012: Entering the exhibit at the Fundación Canal, the prostitutes were still on my mind. I'd reached for my camera to take a pictur...

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Lucky Shopper Finds Picasso In Thrift Store

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: US Economy, Thrift-Store-Finds, Luck, Video, Art, Picasso-Prints, Laid-Off-Workers, Exhibition Poster, US Economy Recession, Pablo Picasso, Picasso Thrift Store, Contemporary Art, Picasso, Linocut Print, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Zach Bodish had been up and down the aisles of the Volunteers of America thrift store many times before, but wasn't finding anything of interest... un...

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Happy Birthday, Juan Gris!

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Juan Gris, Parisian-Artists, Video, Cubism, Art, Impressionism, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Contemporary Art, 20th Century Art, Paris, French Arts, John Russell, Henri Matisse, Arts News

Happy Birthday to Juan Gris! Known affectionately as the "third musketeer of cubism," Gris had the reputation of being a pupil to Picasso's master, bu...

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Jonas Wood's Unstable Interiors

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: David Kordansky Gallery, Video, Abstract Painting, David Hockney, Slidepollajax, Pablo Picasso, Los Angeles Art Galleries, Jonas Wood David Kordansky, Painting, Jonas Wood, Henri Matisse, Roberta Smith, Arts News

Jonas Wood's works, in theory, are fairly straightforward. They are representational paintings of the spaces he inhabits, from his artist studio to hi...

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4 Out-Of-The-Box Art Projects To Try With Your Kids

Rhiana Maidenberg | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Pablo Picasso, Toddlers, Toddler Art, Art, Toddler Activities, Parenting, Parenting Tips, Parents-Toddlers, Slidepollajax, Parents News
Rhiana Maidenberg

As mothers, we can nurture our children's artistic impulses and, as they grow up, offer them opportunities for their creativity to blossom.

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Short Takes: Animated Masterpieces

Jane Chafin | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Art, Salvador Dali, Offramp Gallery, Bosch, Pablo Picasso, m.c.escher, Masterpieces, Animation, Video, Arts News
Jane Chafin

2012-03-08-Screenshot20120308at3.46.55PM.png What happens when heavy metal meets Hieronymus Bosch?

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Picasso Visits Downton Abbey

Carole Mallory | Posted 05.01.2012

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Carole Mallory

In 1971, on our first date, Claude Picasso, Pablo's son, moved into my apartment in New York City. As a model, I was on the covers of Cosmopolitan, ...

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How the UK Went Cubist: 5 Key Works From the Tate's "Picasso and Modern British Art" Show, Explained

ARTINFO | Posted 04.30.2012

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ARTINFO

Without the influence of Pablo Picasso, there would be no Francis Bacon, no Henry Moore, no David Hockney. The great Spanish modernist's influence can...

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The Steins' Avant-Garde Collection Shows At The Met

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Juan Gris, Maurice Denis, Cubism, Tender Buttons, Jacques Lipchitz, Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henri Manguin, Elie Nadelman, Francis Picabia, André Masson, Metropolitan Museum of Art Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, UK Arts, Stein Salon, Matisse, Henri Matisse, Steins Collect, New York Art Exhibitions, Midnight in Paris, Met Steins Collect, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Marie Laurencin, Female Artists, Arts News

Anyone who has seen "Midnight In Paris" knows that the Stein house was the place to be if you were an aspiring artist, writer, musician or socialite. ...

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'Guernica' Is Getting A Full Medical Check

AP | CIARAN GILES | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Guernica, Guernica Medical Check, Reina Sofia Guernica, Video, Guernica Health Check, Guernica Pablo Picasso, Art News, Pablo Picasso, Guernica 75th Anniversary, Guernica Health, Reina Sofia Museum, Culture News

MADRID — Pablo Picasso's "Guernica," one of the world's most iconic paintings, is getting a full health check as it marks its 75th anniversary. ...

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'The Scream' And Other Shockingly Expensive Works Of Art

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Nude Green Leaves and Bust, The Card Players, Expressionism, The Scream, Art, Norway, Pablo Picasso, Art Market, Edvard Munch, Christie's, Paul Cezanne, Qatar, Sotheby's, Business News

With an estimated price tag of more than $80 million, some may gawk right back at Edvard Munch's "The Scream," the iconic painting to be auctioned in ...

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This Is How You Harvest Oprah

Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Slideadbigshot, Natural Art, Woven Canvasses, Oprah Winfrey, Mick Jagger, Organic Art, Torres Woven Canvass, Alexi Torres Artist, Pablo Picasso, Abraham Lincoln, Alexi Torres Art, Alexi Torres, Cuban Art, Arts News

Cuban-born artist Alexi Torres wanted to create works that captured the creative powers of the universe as well as the problems facing it. He grap...

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New York Art Dealer Charged In $4M Fraud

AP | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Robert Scott Cook, Auguste Renoir, Art Heist, Fine Art, Art Crimes, Picasso, Matisse, Art Dealer Charged, Henri Matisse, Fraud, Video, Art Fraud, Art Controversy, Pablo Picasso, Llc., Renoir, Arts News

NEW YORK — A New York art dealer has been charged in a $4 million fraud for selling works by Picasso, Matisse and others without informing the o...

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Move Over Picasso: New Top Auction Earner

Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Video, Zhang Daqian, Art Auctions, Chinese Artists, Pablo Picasso, Picasso Auctions, Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Chinese Art, Chinese Art Auctions, Picasso, Auctions, Arts News

Chinese artist Zhang Daqian has knocked Picasso from a very high pedestal. The artist generated $506.7 million from auctions in 2011 alone. Close ...

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How Thieves Stole Priceless Paintings And Got Away With It

Posted 01.09.2012

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Thieves broke into Greece's National gallery early Monday morning and stole three works of art, including a Picasso and a Mondrian. Picasso's 1939 ...

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PHOTOS: Picasso's Drawings Travel The US

Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: National Gallery, Cubism, Picasso's Drawings, Modernism, Pablo Picasso Drawing, Art in America, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Collage, The Frick Collection, Arts News

Picasso's iconic works are embedded permanently in our collective art memories, yet there are so many pieces just as mesmerizing and innovative which ...

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The Brain From Spain

George Heymont | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Culinary Foam, El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, Center Rep, Anthony Bourdain, Ferran Adria, Film, El Bulli, Culture Clash, Salvador Dali, A Weekend With Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso, Gereon Wetzel, Hebert Siguenza, Video, Arts News
George Heymont

Two recent productions examined how art is created through diametrically opposed techniques. In each case, the artist being showcased is of Spanish birth and international renown.

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In These Gods We Trust

Edward Goldman | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Pablo Picasso, Giorgio De Chirico, Getty Villa, Francis Picabia, Fernand Leger, Arts News
Edward Goldman

Whether you like them or not, there is simply no way to ignore the Gods and Muses that we inherited from the ancient world. Splendid in their nakedness, aware of their beauty and power, they can befriend, seduce or even destroy us, mere human mortals, in the blink of an eye.

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PHOTOS: Outrageous Art: A Primer

Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Britart, Video, Art, David Cerny, Cubism, Controversy, Tracey Emin, Art Controversy, Modern Art, Modern Artists, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Artists, Damien Hirst, UK Arts, Controversial Art, Arts News

With so much argument over Marni Kotak the woman who gave birth in an art gallery last week, it seemed only right to put things in perspective with so...

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