Word: coruna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wave or tree-at will. He is the tutelary saint of virtuosos, and Picasso's virtuosity is the one fact of modern art that everybody knows something about. Stories about it begin in his early childhood. It is said that his father, a provincial art teacher in La Coruna, Spain, turned over his own brushes and paints to this alarming offspring, confessing that little Pablo had already surpassed him as a painter and that he thus could work no longer. This Oedipal story (the child castrating the father) crops up often in the legends of genius...