Picasso
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- proper noun
- /pɪˈkɑːsoʊ/
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Picasso
- There, Walter, then thirteen, purchased a print by Picasso, The Dance of Salome.
- Pablo Picasso
- painting by Picasso
- Matisse and Picasso
Let me choose just three Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pablo Picasso, and Albert Einstein.
- Let me choose just three Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pablo Picasso, and Albert Einstein.
- Why really, would you tell Picasso to sell his guitars?
- Yeah, You know, the days of Matisse and Picasso and Gertrude Stein are long gone.
- And his big thing is he likes to collect art from Picasso and Basquiat.
- But it's not like Jackson Pollock or Picasso.
- We know Cubism is something that Picasso and Brock sort of birthed in the in in early part of the century in Paris.
- You know, the people looking at art after Picasso can no longer see things the same way because he came along and changed our way of seeing.
- I can go to LACMA, they have a whole Picasso display, and I can appreciate that without needing to hoard the thing, to own the thing, to have the thing for myself.
- And he talks about Gertrude Stein as an early advocate of Picasso's work at a time when many people were like, this is garbage, this is awful.
Examples
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And at some point, no one on Earth, not even Picasso himself, could ever guess what the final image would be.
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The only others who have been like that for me were Picasso, Stravinsky, and Bertrand Russell.
Academic text (1990) -
"Answer me this question: Which is more precious, a genuine Picasso painting or a copy?"
Fiction book (1993) -
He is the Picasso of graffiti artists.
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But my favorite thing isn't a nude statue; it's the sculpture I found by Picasso called Head.
Fiction book (1993) -
In Madrid, it fits into a landscape of antifascism; this is how Picasso must have envisioned it.
Academic text (1999) -
At least as early as 1905, Picasso was conscious of Africa's tribal and colonial setting.
Academic text (1990) -
I can go to LACMA, they have a whole Picasso display, and I can appreciate that without needing to hoard the thing, to own the thing, to have the thing for myself.
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Pablo Picasso is celebrated as a master of modern art and the co-founder of the Cubist movement.
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Many people admire Picasso for his innovative use of color and shape in his famous paintings.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Picasso is the family name of Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish painter and sculptor who helped start Cubism and greatly changed modern art. So when people say Picasso they usually mean that artist.