Word: picassos
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Barcelona was the place where Picasso studied, where Salvador Dali grew up, and out of whose deeply conservative traditions of family and rural life Joan Miro, Catalunya's greatest painter since the 14th century, was able to fashion an art of the most radical poetry. And the best buildings constructed anywhere in Spain between 1860 and the outbreak of World War I were all in Catalunya, and mostly in Barcelona. The combined talents of its turn-of-the-century architects made it La Ciudad de los Prodigios, or the City of Marvels, as the Catalan writer Eduardo Mendoza titled...
...Fogg has a well-respected collection of European and North American works, including an impressive Impressionist gallery with a number of Monets. The Fogg also features Jackson Pollack, Picasso, Rembrandt and Renoir, as well as Rodin sculptures and twentieth-century photographs...
...could compress a remarkable charge of emotion into these little studies: in one of them, the curve of the long neck of Antigone weeping over her dead brothers has much the same shape and, in miniature, some of the same tragic force as the woman's head in Picasso's Guernica...
...Picasso's pre-cubist phase where he concentrated on destroying a priori space is evident here, as it was in the Matisses. A Priori space is the conventional three-dimensional, perspectively accurate depiction of depth that originated with Giotto and Pierro Della Francesca in the Renaissance...
...Matisse "Odalisque" uses the floral designs on Odalisque's jewelry and scarf and the designs on the wallpaper behind her to blend the foreground with the background. Picasso, in his "Femme au Fauteuil" also blurs these lines and presents a surface-tense, vibrant and mesmerizing painting that alone is worth the trip to Newbury Street...