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Tag Archives: pablo picasso
Picasso: The Sculptor at Work
Picasso is perhaps the best-known artist of the twentieth century. But throughout his career he also remained, in spirit, a genius of a little boy whose next prank was forever unexpected. This fall, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) devoted its … Continue reading
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Tagged absinthe glass, art, art exhibits, art museums, cubism, exhibits, fine art, modern art, modernism, moma, museum of modern art, new york, new york city, nyc art exhibits, nyc exhibits, nyc museums, pablo picasso, picasso, sculpture, spain, spanish art
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Leonard Lauder’s Cubist Art Collection at the Met
The eighty-one paintings by Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso that are on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art illustrate the birth of Cubism in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. They are the … Continue reading
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Tagged art, art museums, cubism, fernand leger, georges braque, juan gris, leonard lauder, metropolitan museum of art, modern art, new york, new york city, pablo picasso, picasso
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Inventing Abstraction: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art
Fittingly, New York’s Museum of Modern Art opened the centennial exhibition of Inventing Abstraction before the end of 2012. It is a very handsome show, full of varied and vigorous pictures celebrating a new medium that since has swept the … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract art, art collecting, art collection, collection, das kreisen, family story, inventing abstraction, kestnergesellschaft, kurt schwitters, masked ball, merzbild, modern art, moma, museum of modern art, new york, pablo picasso, picasso, schwitters, sonia delaunay, sonia delaunay-terk, the cherry picture, the revolving
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Branching: Thoughts of an Ever-Curious Author 