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...LIFE OF PICASSO, VOL. I by John Richardson...
Probably the last serious biography of the artist by someone who knew him intimately, this first volume brings Picasso from childhood through the Blue and Rose periods, just as the 25-year-old was preparing to radically alter the course of 20th century painting with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. With the help of art historian Marilyn McCully, Richardson explores areas untouched by earlier biographers. He is a born storyteller and writes in a classic style that employs the full palette of ideas and personalities that ushered in the era of Modernism...
...wonder connoisseurs call it the museum lover's museum. The Madrid structure has works by virtually every consequential artist, from the medieval masters to the Italian, Flemish and Dutch schools to Spain's most prominent painter, Picasso, whose monumental Guernica has come home after nearly 50 years of exile...
...Picasso on acid--as impressionistic as toilet paper could ever get," said resident Francisco A. Rivera...
...Metropolis," which has been packing the public into the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through the summer and will continue until Nov. 10. How do you put a zeitgeist in a box, albeit a box the size of a museum? Led by Jean Clair, the director of the Musee Picasso in Paris, six curators have set out to raise and question the ghosts of the queen cities of Modernism: Paris, Berlin and New York -- with detours to London, Weimar (for the Bauhaus), Cologne (for Dada) and Moscow (for Constructivism) -- in the decade between the end of World...