Word: picasso
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...putsch, Htein Lin, along with many other student activists, fled into the jungle. While living in a rebel camp, he happened to meet an older artist, who offered him drawing lessons using recycled newspaper or sticks in the sand and described the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso. "I had some images of them in my mind," Htein Lin says, laughing. "Of course, it was nothing like the reality." After murderous factional violence broke out among the rebels, he returned to Rangoon, where he continued performing and drawing. In 1998, a fellow former dissident happened to mention his name...
...nature, and in his uncanny ability not only to capture the horrors of his own age but to foreshadow the atrocities to come. If earlier generations have found in the Spanish painter's work clues to their own iconography of despair (The Third of May as a precursor of Picasso's Guernica, the Black Paintings as preparation for images of Auschwitz), the Prado's "Goya in Times of War" is an exhibition for us, the Abu Ghraib generation...
...Harvard has a Picasso?” This is the sort of epiphany that Lynne A. Stanton wants Harvard undergraduates to have. As coordinator of public education with the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), Stanton is charged with getting more students to explore the University’s enormous collections—an objective that will be increasingly difficult given the fact that the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums will close this summer for four years of renovations.The looming closures notwithstanding, Stanton says that undergraduate interest in the art collections has increased in recent years, in large part...
...establishments in this part of the city are Old World in style, the oldest thing you'll find at the Pulitzer is the white-and-gold Baroque reception desk, salvaged from a Sicilian church. The rest is straight out of a Modernist design book, but with added heart. The Picasso-like sketches and giant Miró-esque canvases create a very Spanish backdrop to a ground floor dedicated to the Catalunyan art of chilling. Spend the afternoon sinking into one of the white leather couches, sipping cocktails at the red Chinese-lacquer bar, or flipping through the collection of books...
...What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had. My romance for artists is more about their work than their lifestyle. It's interesting when people are beautiful or have romantic lives, but any of these people, whether it's Jim Morrison or Coltrane or Mozart or whoever I like, I don't like them because they had a self-destructive aspect or died young, I like them because they did great work...