Word: artists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...libel and a deep hurt to me, and to prove how mistaken you are, I'm enclosing a lovely, authentic portrait of me done in oils by Bill Scott, Minneapolis Times-Tribune artist...
...Museum of Modern Art one night last week spelt the name PICASSO. Outside, the traffic jam would have done credit to a prize fight. Inside, 4,000 people crowded for a preview of the most comprehensive show ever assembled of work by the world's most famed living artist...
...Picasso's work up to the present, the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective show omitted only his student output and his recent sculpture (whose casting for the show World War II halted). Perhaps no other artist could survive so big a one-man show so well. It ranged from an academic study of moonlight and roses, painted in 1898 when Picasso was 17 and had already set himself up as an independent artist in Barcelona, to 1939 portraits in which he practices artistic schizophrenia and tries to catch several views of a face at once...
...opponents admit that Picasso has influenced the art of his time more than any of his contemporaries. As an inventor and transmitter of painting techniques he is unrivaled. A believer in eclecticism if not in consecutive growth, Picasso himself knows why he is always changing. Says he: "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. That is why we must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions...
...itself is primarily indicative of a method rather than a time in the history of painting. An Impressionistic painting is simply one in which bright, practically unfused colors are placed on the canvas in such a manner that the eye of the onlooker, rather than the brush of the artist, mixes the tones and gives them coherence. Perhaps an example would serve to illustrate my point: a barber pole contains stripes of solid, unmixed color; this is the palette. When the pole begins to turn, these colors are fused and mingled for your eye, not by your eye; this...