It's the birthday of the man who said, "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth." That's Pablo Picasso, born in Malaga, Spain (1881), who helped found the Cubist movement.
His paintings include Guernica (1937), set amidst the Spanish Civil War, and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, (The Young Ladies of Avignon) (1907), above, which features five naked ladies in a brothel in Barcelona. That painting now hangs at New York City's MOMA.
-from The Writer's Almanac
3 comments:
I think his work is bzirare (that's Picasso spelling). Eh :)
In my humanities class we watched a video clip where Colin Powell was giving a speech about the war in Iraq and the painting of Guernica was behind him but when they aired it on TV they blurred out the painting. Cool, huh?
Ah Pablo...what a guy....watch that mailbox closely
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