Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Paris and Barcelona, Picasso painted the sombre, introspective canvases of his "Blue Period." By 1904 he returned to live in Paris, permanently, and in swift succession followed the "Harlequin," "Rose" and "Negro" periods. By 1908 he was pioneering in cubism, with a side foray into pasted paper compositions. Picasso's seven years' designing for the Russian Ballet, beginning in 1917, led him into a neo-classical realism, culminating in the sculptural Three Graces (see cut) of 1924. Year later his classicism came to a violent end with his painting, The Three Dancers (see cut), which left...
...proud of being a Spaniard now that the Spanish people are fighting to save their own culture." Luis Mira, former professor at the University of Barcelona and inspector of psychiatry in the Spanish Republican Army, said at a meeting sponsored by the Teachers' Union in behalf of the Spanish Refugee Campaign...
...About one-sixth of Barcelona's population had safe shelters and more than 50% had much better protection than anything that now exists in Britain...
...feels that the "cynicism and treachery" of the British and French Governments reached their highest points there. Of the four-month battle of the Ebro: "We fought the last part of that battle with our fists and the fascists fought it with heavy artillery." Franco's advance on Barcelona: "An unarmed man is killed, and then the fascists step on his body to advance." Her pages on the evacuation of Barcelona, on the treatment the refugees received at the hands of the French Government, are dreadful reading. In February 1939 she came to the U. S. to raise money...