Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DOUBTFUL whether any other painter in history produced so much in such a long lifetime as Pablo Picasso. Titian lived to be 99, but only an artist of such diverse styles, such daring experimentation, such natural feeling for his media as Picasso could show such rich variety and consistent excellence in an oeuvre spanning almost 80 years. Always, this production was at the forefront of art in the twentieth century. Picasso was the last, and possibly the greatest of the modernist giants...
...breadth of his influence on the way we see. He was the maker of masterpieces like Guernica or Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, but also of posters, prints, and sketches familiar around the world -- the Don Quixote, the doves. For many of us he was probably the first great artist we ever heard...
...constant for all the arts, but the leading figures of what now appears as the classical period of modernism are gone: two years ago Stravinsky; after the bitter silence of his last years, Pound; and now Picasso. Not for a long time, and perhaps never again, will any single artist create a revolution as fundamental as Picasso...
...skivvies and sat in the sun. There were plenty of diversions: a swimming pool, a movie and an Alpha Club that featured the Dreamers' show band. But most G.I.s just waited, playing chess or pool or saying one final goodbye to girl friends. For $2, a harried Vietnamese artist would personalize Samsonite luggage by painting the owner's name and a Vietnamese dragon on the side...
Overtures. Francis I had reason to be infatuated with Italy. He had conquered some of it in 1515, when he was only 21; and the first Italian artist to come under his barely fledged wing was Leonardo da Vinci, who went to France and died in the royal chateau at Amboise in 1519. But when the King turned to the remodeling of Fontainebleau, his chances of getting another such hero of the High Renaissance were gone. Raphael was dead. Michelangelo rebuffed Francis' overtures. That left younger men, notably Rosso, who had been cut adrift by the sack of Rome...