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Whatever else he was Pablo Picasso was the most potent single force in the art of the 20th century. Matisse and Kandinsky might rival him as second leaders in the most violent revolution since the Renaissance. But neither of their revolutions was quite as drastic, as far reaching, as varied in manner of assault and foray against tradition as Picasso's. And yet as soon as the word "tradition" is mentioned, Picasso must be thought of as a colleague of the masters of the past as well as the artist who seemed most to reject them. It has always been typical of Picasso that he could not be captured within a single net. He was this, he was that, he was the other - at one moment a poet, at the next an inspired buffoon; tender and romantic to the point of sentimentality, intellectual to the point of frigidity; now a cynic, now a compassionate man; ebullient in one painting, despairing in another; exquisitely refined, and deliberately brutal.
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The Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was the son of a drawing master and had been something of an infant prodigy in the Barcelona art school. At the age of nineteen he had come to Paris where he painted subjects that would have pleased the expressionists: Beggars, outcasts, strollers and circus people. He learned how it is possible to build up an image of a face or an object out of a few very simple elements.
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A year ago, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter had two of her grandfather's paintings stolen from her home in Paris. This week thieves struck again at a Picasso exhibit with a name that sounds like someone fell on their keyboard: The paintings were stolen Wednesday evening after closing time at the Seedamm-Kulturzentrum in the small town of Pfaeffikon, near Zurich.
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Pablo Picasso is te gast in de Albertina in Wenen vanaf 22 september. Tot 7 januari 2007 kun je er liefst 200 werken van de beroemde Spaanse kunstenaar bewonderen. Het zijn werken die hij maakte in de laatste twaalf jaar van zijn leven. Hij realiseerde ze in zijn villa in Zuid-Frankrijk en schilderde er tegen een waanzinnig tempo. Hij bracht er de zelfdiscipline op elke dag een aantal uren te schilderen, mede uit angst dat hij zijn scherpzinnigheid van geest zou verliezen mocht hij niet actief bezig blijven. Zijn liefste motieven komen hierbij aan bod zoals liefdesscènes, mantel- en degentaferelen, zelfportretten.
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Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France, while he and his wife Jacqueline entertained friends for dinner. His final words were "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink any more."[6] He was interred at Castle Vauvenargues' park, in Vauvenargues, Bouches-du-Rhône. Jacqueline Roque prevented his children Claude and Paloma from attending the funeral.[7]
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Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881. He was the son of Jose Ruiz Blasco, an art teacher. At the age of 14 he completed the Barcelona Academy of Fine Arts qualifying examination. Later he studied in Madrid, returning to Barcelona in 1900.
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