Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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He once decided to paint Kiki, Queen of the Paris models, favorite of Artists Pascin, Kisling, Soutine. After meticulously arranging her pose and drapes, sitting at his easel, squinting at her, measuring her with his thumb, dabbing at his canvas so laboriously and long that Kiki was sure he had...
Cubism was an invention of the same mind nind that put roller skates on the Máagan tortoise. In 1909, in the village of Horta, near Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, Picasso painted a series of pictures of jumbled roofs and houses which suggested to him a whole new method...
In the hands of Georges Braque, who took it up almost simultaneously, of Juan Gris, a young Spaniard who took it in 1911 and made it charming, and of Picasso, cubism made cunning use of all that painters know about form and color in themselves-from such elementary facts that...
After lunching on noodles or spaghetti at a little Italian restaurant in the Rue Bonaparte near St. Sulpice, Picasso starts the real day's work at about 2 p. m. in an enormous, factory-like studio at 7 Rue des Grands-Augustins. He no longer selects or sizes (prepares...
Dating from the first half of the thirteenth century, this grotesque griffin originally formed part of a row of ghastly figures that decorated the walls of the Sals Capitula, or chapter house, in the ancient monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza near Burgos in north-central Spain. The hall was...