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...plenty of money to go with all this: the prices that museums pay Wyeth regularly break records, and what he gets from the 60-odd private collectors who have his temperas has occasionally topped the museum prices. He may be the world's best-paid painter after Picasso-and part of the reason is Betsy. Once, 20 years ago, when he did a cover for the Saturday Evening Post for $1,000 and seemed tempted to take a contract with the magazine, she threatened to leave him. "It'll be the end of your painting," she said. Recently...
...hand will signal to the world that you’ve been up all night pouring over the new [insert favorite author] novel. Coffee should be obtained from a small café. Starbucks drinkers are to be scorned. 1. Moleskine (or other pocket) notebook Employed by Van Gogh, Picasso and Hemingway, the strategic use of this item will situate you within the great Western Tradition. Notebook is especially effective in displaying your creativity when used for jotting down abstract thoughts or elaborate doodles in the presence of others. 0. Appear non-conformist. —Ama R. Francis...
...After he’d been located and brought back out, he locked himself away for five days. Nobody knew what had gone on. But starting from then, he began to paint quite differently.” And soon enough, he is brushing shoulders with the likes of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, exhibiting his work in the Musée d’Orsay and the Museum of Modern Art. When Zollner meets him, all Kaminski lacks is a biography that will solidify his reputation as an artist with lasting significance, hopefully disproving Kaminski’s own fatalistic...
...True to Okamoto's trademark expression - "Art is an explosion!" - Myth of Tomorrow depicts the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, drawing comparisons from some critics to Picasso's Guernica, which illustrates the 1937 firebombings of that Spanish city. (In fact, the two were contemporaries, and Okamoto is often compared with Picasso.) The white-tiled station wall has thus transformed into a burning landscape, swirling with hues of red, yellow and black...
...Museo Picasso, Plaza de Picasso, 1 (34-91-868-0056; madrid.org/museo_picasso) I love this collection. It's just 62 pieces that Picasso gave to his barber over their 26-year friendship...