History
Picasso, our artist hero (Randie’s and mine), indeed, died on this date, 1973 in Mougins, France. I was 3 years old.
Picasso never ceased in experimenting with his art… he lived a full adventurous life… most of it in France. I appreciate his artistic endeavors…. but did not care for his attitude towards women. Randie and I share this view.
Do you have a favorite Picasso work of art?
I rather like his portrait of Paul Picasso as a child. There is just something endearing about it. The eyes look just a touch sad and the mouth is somber yet the faint pink to the cheeks gives an overall air of childhood innocence.
I love the self portrait with really hard black lines…it looks almost cartoonish. I had my third graders copy that one year, with good success. . I also enjoy the whimsy of his Head of a Bull…made from a bike seat and handlebars!
Picasso is much like the Beatles in that they explored so many areas in their artistic fields that it is impossible to dislike everything.
I enjoy both Picasso and the Beatles. Though Pablo shoulda bought extra paint so he could put clothes on some of them nekked ladies. Museums can get CHILLY! 😉
Pastelle;daughter.
Next story: Randie goes back in time, declares her love for Picasso, gets treated like dirt, punches him in the face, accidentally kills him, history changes, and when she returns to 2013 her new favorite artist is Gary Larson!
What they hey, makes about as much sense as a time-traveling DeLorean…
I’m a Dali / Escher / Giger man myself…..
A favorite Picasso?…
Don Quixote, of course! I have a print of it on my wall, above my computer. 🙂
Hear me now,
Oh thou bleak and unbearable world,
Thou art base and debauched as can be;
And a knight with his banners all bravely unfurled
Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee!
I am I, Don Quixote,
The Lord of La Mancha,
My destiny calls and I go,
And the wild winds of fortune
Will carry me onward,
Oh whithersoever they blow.
Whithersoever they blow,
Onward to glory I go!
I was in a food co-op once when Man of La Mancha broke out… up ’til then I thought that those kind of things only happened in movies….
(Yes, I sang too….)
The Auld Grump, I played Don Quixote in high school, but always preferred Sancho Panza.
Pasha… interesting you and Beetle chose Picasso’s portraits of his kids…
Judy… Self portrait 1906… mask-like face… I think.
Pete… agreed. Both the Beatles and Picasso have stood the test of time, haven’t they? They are intriguing and relevant even today.
Beetle… in the blue dress? with hands folded?
Dada… time-travel makes me dizzy.
uwg… I forgive you. (jus’ kidding… I don’t forgive you…Ha ha… no really)…
Grump… yer not a Quixote fan… nope. You apparently know it backwards and forwards… and sideways.
brig,
That’s the one.
gotta go with guernica. the style perfectly expresses the chaos of war.
Heh, I know enough about Don Quixote to know where They Might Be Giants got the name of their band. 🙂
Patron saint of would be paladins everywhere.
But Sancho is Sam to Don Quixote’s Frodo. The actual hero in the story.
The Auld Grump
AG,
From the construction, it’s unclear if you are saying that Sancho or Quixote is the true hero. From your context, I believe you are saying Sancho is. I agree with this. While he is the protagonist, Quixote can best be described as “the McGuffin” of the novel – his fancies and actions drive the (other) characters.
“Le D’amoiselles d’Avignon” because of it’s groundbreaking introduction to Picasso’s influence by African mask art. As well as the fact that it shocked the stuffings out of everybody when they first saw it! 🙂