In the fateful year of 1913, events in New York and Paris launched a great public rivalry between the two most consequential artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. The New York Armory Show art exhibition unveiled Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, a “sensation of sensations” that prompted Americans to declare Duchamp the leader of cubism, the voice of modern art.
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.W
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Picasso Lessons - The Sixth Woman of Les Demoiselles D'Avignon; 2nd Edition
2007 marked the 100th anniversary of Pablo Picasso's painting Les Demoiselles d Avignon. The Demoiselles triggered the invention of Cubism--and ignited an artistic revolution. Form broke free. Abstraction erupted. In this short essay, architect/painter JEF7REY HILDNER revisits Picasso's landmark canvas, x-rays its organizing principles, and discovers new ... Picasso Lessons.
Francoise Gilot met Picasso during the German occupation of Paris, she was twenty-one, he was sixty-two. For nearly a decade, Gilot shared her life with this giant of the art world, giving birth to two of his children, working as his model, and sharing his world. This uniquely candid and vivid memoir takes readers behind the Piccasso legend to meet the man.
