Word: picasso
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...produced any number of competent sculptors, even a few first-rate ones, but perhaps only two that brought authentic greatness to their own genres: David Smith and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Smith's work was the climax of a tradition of open, sheet-metal sculpture that began in 1912 with Picasso's tin guitar; Saint-Gaudens, at the end of the 19th century, epitomized the academic tradition of public speech through bronze casting, whose roots wound back to Donatello and Verrocchio...
...dollars for a single concert and never less than $100,000. "The Soviets can't afford me," he jokes, but Horowitz will receive about $2.5 million dollars for TV and recording rights to his five-concert series. His extensive art collection--which included works by Rouault, Degas, Manet and Picasso--was sold off when the insurance became prohibititive, and replaced with a Japanese silk-screen painting and a Chinese mirror painting. The big Steinway commands the living room, when it is not on the road with him. Near by on the wall are four autographed photographs: Paderewski, Rachmaninoff, Puccini...
...despite all the talk of organic spaces, Wynn can't completely keep the old showman in check. His original plan for the hotel called for a small, intimate, all-suites establishment. That didn't last long. It was also supposed to be named Le Rêve, after the Picasso painting, instead of Wynn, after himself. He was certain for years that he wanted all the signs in the hotel to be sleek and minimal. Then he saw the giant Louis Vuitton sign in his retail space a few weeks before the opening. "Now that's a sign!" he told...
...Italian steamer to Europe, where for about three years he painted in flophouses in Florence, Madrid and Paris. Desperate to learn about art, Botero and a friend traveled by motorcycle to the south of France, where they hoped to pick up some tips from the master himself, Picasso. The two knocked on Picasso's door, asking to meet the artist. "They told us to get lost," Botero laughs. Botero's plump, comical characters appear even when the subject matter is grim. Central to the exhibition in Rome are some of the darkest images Botero has ever created: 45 paintings...
...family life. Colombians call their most famous artist El Maestro, and he returns their affection. He's donated hundreds of his paintings and sculptures to museums in Bogotá and Medellín, as well as his entire personal collection of modern art, including works by Chagall, Matisse, Picasso and others he has purchased over the years. "As soon as [the donations] were made official, my father would walk through the streets and people would throw themselves at him," says his son, Juan Carlos Botero Zea, 44, a novelist who moved to Miami five years ago. But the artist...