Word: picassos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Born in a small town in southern Spain, Picasso became the single most influential, the best known, and the most versatile figure of modern art. A constant self-overcoming from his earliest period to his latest bore witness to a mind of astonishingly original genius. In the years between the beginning of the century and World War I, he led modernism through the initial innovations of cubism, and carved out a territory which the painting of today continues to inhabit...
...most justly famous photographer in America: a patriarch in reputation and appearance, with his grizzled pepper-and-salt beard, his short way with bores and fools and his boundless kindness to younger photographers in whom he recognized signs of talent. His was an enormous life, comparable in range to Picasso's; his portrait subjects spanned modern history, from the actress Eleanora Duse and Auguste Rodin to Eleanor Roosevelt. The projects ran from a laxative advertisement (done before 1900) to what is still the most popular photography show in history, The Family of Man, which he selected for New York...
...pink of the chair back and table legs and vase glows with preternatural intensity. Color for Matisse was not a property of objects. It was the stuff of which they were made. And space itself was less a describable structure-which it was for Picasso or Braque-than a color-filled void in which the eye immersed itself. Years later, Matisse summed up the difference in one mild and cryptic phrase...
...swapped two more De Groot paintings, a Modigliani and a Juan Gris, for Becca, a sculpture by David Smith and a painting by California Artist Richard Diebenkorn. Later the Met disclosed that the swap had cost the Met not two but six works - another Gris, a Bonnard, a Picasso and a Renoir...