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...Died. Pablo Picasso, 91, protean genius of 20th century...
...this century, critics have been writing about Pablo Picasso in the present indicative. He was 91 years, six months and 17 days old when the tense changed and "is" finally became "was." It seems like a malfunction of language itself. But by now the doors of the pantheon are sealed, the first wave of reminiscences has rolled by, the wreaths are laid. The dealers have gone down to their storage racks to rewrite the price tickets. The last Picassos have been painted, drawn, etched, cast, welded, thrown or glazed, and the most generous display of creative exuberance in several hundred...
...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, but it is possibly true of Picasso; he was almost as remarkable a child prodigy as Mozart. The precocity...
...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...
...minds of Vienna's modernists, and Ludwig Wittgenstein was born and raised at the crossroads of this culture. His father was a multimillionaire iron and steel man who also ran one of the finest music salons in Vienna. Mahler, Bruno Walter and a young Spanish cellist named Pablo Casals were frequent guests...