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  • He wanders for miles along the famous boulevards, through the Marais, arriving after many wrong turns at the Picasso Museum.†   (source)
  • You know what Picasso says.†   (source)
  • But for the handwritten captions on the backs, they could have been photos in one of those WHAT IS THIS PICTURE? features in puzzle magazines, where maxiphotography makes the straight-arm of a paper-clip took like a pylon and the pop-top of a beer-can like a Picasso sculpture.†   (source)
  • By this criterion General Motors produced pure art, whereas Picasso did not.†   (source)
  • I think about the mornings waking up in my room at the top of the Black Barn to the voices of students outside in the field, arguing about poetry or philosophy; or the long winters, the breakfasts in steamed-up kitchens, meandering discussions around the table about Kafka or Picasso.†   (source)
  • "It's attributed to Pablo Picasso, and as most of you probably realize, he's the only non-American artist whose work will be featured in today's auction.†   (source)
  • Mr. Daimler's mouth, eyes, nose—his whole face seems to be rearranging itself into unfamiliar patterns, like a Picasso painting.†   (source)
  • Then they were everywhere at once again, looped about each other, everything new for the second time, and she closed her eyes to see them together, which she could almost do, which she could do for the sheerest time, bodies turned and edged and sidled, one way and the other, this and that concurrent, here but also there, like back-fronted Picasso lovers.†   (source)
  • It was one of the first things my mother hung up, before even our school pictures or her favorite Picasso print in the living room.†   (source)
  • There were always people about talking of artists I had never heard of, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró, and books I had no time to read, T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and Mrs. Dalloway, by someone called Virginia Woolf, who came once to Frieda's.†   (source)
  • One day, he showed her some Picasso reproductions and made fun of them.†   (source)
  • I stare at the card, which has a face by Picasso on the front.†   (source)
  • Seeing his face—sliced into segments by those metal bars, like he was some kind of Picasso portrait that couldn't be put together again—brought it all back.†   (source)
  • I flew out to Los Angeles and met nice people who thought I would fit in, who complimented my work and took me to lunch in the "Picasso Room."†   (source)
  • "I like this Picasso," said Max.†   (source)
  • Rubens painted women, Renoir painted women, Picasso painted women.†   (source)
  • Some esthetic student had discovered an article on Pablo Picasso in Life magazine.†   (source)
  • The elder Kleppmann's system was this: he sold paintings in groups, each group including one work--a blue Picasso, for instance--worth plenty.†   (source)
  • Anyway," she said, "the only real geniuses are artists: Yeats, Picasso, Garcia Marquez: geniuses.†   (source)
  • Since when did Picasso make a career out of drawing SHOES?†   (source)
  • "Time to earn your keep, Picasso," he mutters.†   (source)
  • Like Picasso, I've gone through different phases.†   (source)
  • My face becomes a Picasso sketch, my body slicing into dissecting cubes.†   (source)
  • Picasso sure had a thing for naked women.†   (source)
  • I'd never been to an art gallery, though I'd read an article on Picasso, in Life magazine.†   (source)
  • Though a student at the Academy of Fine Arts, she was not allowed to paint like Picasso.†   (source)
  • And yet, Picasso is also saying that it's a lie.†   (source)
  • Max particularly liked a Picasso in which a weathered old man cradled a guitar.†   (source)
  • I've got a print of my missing favorite and we'll see if Rembrandt can trump Picasso!†   (source)
  • Years ago, Picasso was quoted as saying, 'We all know that art is not truth.†   (source)
  • While being interviewed by an American art magazine, Saunière had expressed his distaste for the modernist Cubist movement by noting that Picasso's masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was a perfect anagram of vile meaningless doodles.†   (source)
  • Picasso's Poverty and Gauguin's Tahitian Landscape, water-damaged after being hidden by some numbskull in a public toilet.†   (source)
  • Davis darted up a flight of floating marble stairs, leaving me alone with Noah—or so I thought—until a woman I hadn't seen called out, "That's a real Picasso."†   (source)
  • I only knew who Picasso was.†   (source)
  • I wonder who this Picasso is.†   (source)
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  • Maybe Picasso couldn't do trees either.†   (source)
  • "See Picasso," he commands.†   (source)
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  • PICASSO.†   (source)
  • Suddenly she felt pangs of conscience: Was it really so terrible that her father had painted vases filled with roses and hated Picasso?†   (source)
  • Her longing to betray her rather remained unsatisfied: Communism was merely another rather, a father equally strict and limited, a father who forbade her love (the times were puritanical) and Picasso, too.†   (source)
  • Max listened as his father rattled off the names from a slip of paper: Picasso, Matisse, and van Gogh came handily enough, but he paused when he came to the last.†   (source)
  • There were works by Picasso and Warhol, Johns and Pollock, Rauschenberg and de Kooning, exhibited side by side.†   (source)
  • Upon reflection, however, I began to wonder whether Picasso was speaking simply about art, or whether he wanted us to view our own lives through that prism as well.†   (source)
  • What was Picasso suggesting?†   (source)
  • The Picasso?†   (source)
  • Or even Picasso.†   (source)
  • He gave away the Picasso for a song but jacked up the prices of the works by unknowns--and thus jacked up the value of other works by those painters, including, of course, the paintings in his own collection.†   (source)
  • This is Picasso, Mrs. Brown.†   (source)
  • There is no longer any question of Picasso or icons.†   (source)
  • The alternative to Picasso is not Michelangelo, but kitsch.†   (source)
  • (4) Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect.†   (source)
  • Picasso and the icons are so austere and barren in comparison.†   (source)
  • We will even suppose that he faintly surmises some of the great art values the cultivated find in Picasso.†   (source)
  • Picasso, Braque, Mondrian, Miro, Kandinsky, Brancusi, even Klee, Matisse and Cézanne derive their chief inspiration from the medium they work in.†   (source)
  • But the ultimate values which the cultivated spectator derives from Picasso are derived at a second remove, as the result of reflection upon the immediate impression left by the plastic values.†   (source)
  • They are not immediately or externally present in Picasso's painting, but must be projected into it by the spectator sensitive enough to react sufficiently to plastic qualities.†   (source)
  • Superior culture is one of the most artificial of all human creations, and the peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties.†   (source)
  • Picasso's shows still draw crowds, and T. S. Eliot is taught in the universities; the dealers in modernist art are still in business, and the publishers still publish some "difficult" poetry.†   (source)
  • Returning to our Russian peasant for the moment, let us suppose that after he has chosen Repin in preference to Picasso, the state's educational apparatus comes along and tells him that he is wrong, that he should have chosen Picasso -- and shows him why.†   (source)
  • But things being as they are in Russia -- and everywhere else -- the peasant soon finds the necessity of working hard all day for his living and the rude, uncomfortable circumstances in which he lives do not allow him enough leisure, energy and comfort to train for the enjoyment of Picasso.†   (source)
  • Macdonald goes on to say: "Why after all should ignorant peasants prefer Repin (a leading exponent of Russian academic kitsch in painting) to Picasso, whose abstract technique is at least as relevant to their own primitive folk art as is the former's realistic style?†   (source)
  • Left: Repin, Cossacks; Right: Piacsso,Woman with a Fan Let us see, for example, what happens when an ignorant Russian peasant such as Macdonald mentions stands with hypothetical freedom of choice before two paintings, one by Picasso, the other by Repin.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, it can be said that the cultivated spectator derives the same values from Picasso that the peasant gets from Repin, since what the latter enjoys in Repin is somehow art too, on however low a scale, and he is sent to look at pictures by the same instincts that send the cultivated spectator.†   (source)
  • There are some French people here—Mistinguet last week, surprised to find the hotel open, and Picasso and the man who wrote Pas sur la Bouche….†   (source)
  • On the far wall, across from the sofa, hung an ornately framed reproduction of Picasso's "Mother and Child," and directly opposite, above the sofa, was a painting of a dashing Renaissance courtier, masked, sword in hand, protecting a frightened, pink-cheeked maiden.†   (source)
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