Word: picasso
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...more than ever, we need art to express our hopes and fears. In the months and years ahead, can we expect a Guernica, the masterpiece Picasso painted after an air attack killed 1,600 people during the Spanish Civil War? Will a movement rise from these horrors, as Modernism arose after World War I? With artists like the ones on the following pages, anything is possible...
...Conflict may make some entertainment superfluous, but it also helps make some great art possible, from Bob Marley?s anthemic song ?War? to Kurt Vonnegut?s novel ?Slaughterhouse Five? to Picasso?s masterpiece ?Guernica.? Many mere entertainers - the teen pop idols, the nihilistic gangsta rappers, the amoral hard rockers - will no doubt have to (at least temporarily) rethink their relevance in the light of recent events. Do we need to hear DMX?s violent boasts when there?s so much violence on TV? Is there any point in enduring Slipknot?s horror metal assault when real life is already dealing...
...unbearably repetitious and banal Fernando Botero, 69, who has made millions, millions and millions of dollars painting and sculpting mountainously fat people over and over and over again. These sleek, bloated lumps of cellulite have the same appeal to the international nouveau riche that the semi-skeletal poor of Picasso's Blue Period used...
...entirety. I would have to content myself with concentrating in detail on sections of it, a method that, as an English major, I have learned works quite well with verbose 19th-century novels. I scanned the table of contents and noted the page numbers and tape volumes of the Picasso section. I pressed play, closed my eyes, and began listening to the introduction...
...Alan Price Set, founded by the former Animals keyboardist. DIED. FANNY BRENNAN, 80, French-born American surrealist painter whose childhood was spent among the international artistic circles of 1920s Paris; in New York City. As a young artist she had her portrait drawn by Alberto Giacometti and taught Pablo Picasso how to play Chinese checkers. Her specialty was miniature still lifes, usually just a few inches wide. DIED. LEON WILKESON, 49, bassist and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the 1970s U.S. rock band that sold 35 million albums and is best known for its songs Freebird and Sweet Home Alabama...