Pablo Picasso Biography in full Pablo Ruiz y Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ) (born October 25‚ 1881‚ Málaga‚ Spain—died April 8‚ 1973‚ Mougins‚ France) Spanish expatriate painter‚ sculptor‚ printmaker‚ ceramicist‚ and stage designer‚ one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. The enormous body of Picasso’s work remains‚ and the legend lives on—a tribute to the vitality of the “disquieting” Spaniard with the “sombre . . . piercing”
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The Videopainter Felix Gmelin Robert Stasinski Felix Gmelin‚ a veteran-boyish artist and a persistent auditor of the attitudes of the 60s‚ has recently exhibited new work at the 4th Berlin Biennial. In the piece Sound and Vision (2005) – a two channel video installation – his severe love-hate relationship with this mystified decade comes into play. The work features archive footage of the artist as a young man‚ as well as an eerie instruction video showing blind kids learning about sex‚ by
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Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santisima Trinidad. Born in the city of Malaga in Spain‚ he was the first child of Don Jose Ruiz y Blasco (1838–1913) and María Picasso y Lopez. Picasso’s family was middle-class. His father was a painter who specialized in naturalistic depictions of birds and other game. For most of his life Ruiz was a professor of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum. Picasso
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Evacuation is the removal of vulnerable people form an area that could possibly be a likely target. There were many reasons as to why children were evacuated during world war two‚ theese reasons did not only have affect on the children but it also had effect on their parents and Britain winning the war. The children were evacuated to the country simply because it would be much safer for them there‚ as no bombs were expected to hit the countryside. There were many practical reasons as to why children
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Girl with a Mandolin Pablo Picasso Cubism Painting In 1907‚ Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque founded the art movement known as Cubism. This style of painting revolutionised modern abstract art during the 20th century. Pablo Picasso was a Spanish Painter who was born in the 19th Century. His talents were recognised at an early age for his realistic technique. During his adolescence his painting style changed drastically as he experimented with different theories‚ techniques and ideas. Picasso
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------------------------------------------------- Analyse the causes and results of the Spanish Civil War. From 1936-1939‚ Spain had undergone through turmoil and destruction as they plunge into an inevitable internal incident that wreaked havoc across the country militarily‚ economically‚ politically and socially. The Spanish Civil War had begun. There are many causes to as why the war ignited and the list of results is not that negligible either. Causes such as the unpopularity of the monarch
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The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) In July 1936‚ the civil war flared up in Spain between two groups: the Republicans (also known as : the left side)‚ supported by the USSR and some Americans volunteered‚ and the Nationalists ( also known as : The right side)‚ led by General Francisco Franco and supported by the Italians and Germans. The war is going to be characterized by the battles going back and forth during the three year period the war last (1936-1939). The consequences of this war
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Cited: Bender‚ Amy. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. Double Day: New York‚ 2010. Bender‚ Amy. http://www.flammableskirt.com/newbook.html. A Kind of Flag Planting. Layden‚ Sarah. Guernica. Ed. Michael Archer. 15 Nov 2000. http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/bender_11_15_10/. The Onion. “All Seven Deadly Sins Committed at Church Bake Sale.” 2007. Back to the Lake. Ed. Thomas Cooley. 2nd ed. New York: Norton‚ 2012. 190-92. Print
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HUM 1020 Unit 4 Study Guide Chapter 17: Romantic Era Define: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. bel canto gesamtkunstwerk lieder natural selection leitmotiv Times to Know: 1. Beginning of the French Revolution (1792) 2. American Civil War (1861-1865) Names to Know: 1. Louis Pasteur 2. Charles Darwin 3. Ludwig van Beethoven 4. Jacques-Louis David 5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 6. Shelley‚ Byron‚ and Keats (started Romantic poetry in England) 7. Charles Dickens 8. Edgar Allan Poe 9. Emerson
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Before Night Falls In the novel‚ Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas who lived from 1943 to 1990‚ the author conveys many subjects and captures the reader to the full extent. Reinaldo Arenas‚ the author and the person who lived the experience writes this book for us in hopes of capturing our feelings and sympathy of the Cuban Revolution. Arenas wrote over twenty books‚ including ten novels and numerous short stories and poems. Arenas was not the only writer affected though as he states that
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