Cubism - Finestre sull'Arte

Picasso, or the modern artist as despot and advertising tyrant

Riccardo Bacchelli had a vivid youthful memory of Picasso, an ungrateful memory. He was then, 1911, practicing as editorial secretary at Prezzolini's Voce, even putting articles on the page. "For some time," Prezzolini would write in Il tempo della V...
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A Pierrot and a Harlequin: artists' children also disguised themselves

We have all been children and all of us at least once in our lives have dressed up at Carnival as we liked. I always loved dressing up as a princess or fairy, because even as a child I had a romantic, dreamy, fairy tale-loving soul, as I do now, and ...
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An exhibition at Milan's Palazzo Reale recounts Picasso's complex reality in Paris

From September 20, 2024 until February 2, 2025, Palazzo Reale in Milan presents the exhibition Picasso the Stranger. Fifty years after his death, the work of Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, 1973) is investigated through his status as an i...
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From Matisse to Modigliani, in Padua here are drawings from the Musée de Grenoble

Palazzo Zabarella in Padua announces the exhibition visitable from October 5, 2024 to January 12, 2025 titled MATISSE PICASSO MODIGLIANI MIRÓ - Masterpieces of Drawing from the Musée de Grenoble, curated by Guy Tosatto and in collaborat...
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Rare early Picasso painting goes up for auction in Paris

A rare early work by Pablo Picasso (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, 1973) will go up for auction next Wednesday, June 5, at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris. It is a painting executed by a Picasso in his early twenties, around 1900: titled El campanar ...
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In Padua, Palazzo Zabarella hosts masterpieces of French modernism from the Brooklyn Museum, from Monet to Matisse

From December 16, 2023 to May 12, 2024, Palazzo Zabarella in Padua hosts the exhibition From Monet to Matisse. French Moderns, 1850-1950, curated by Lisa Small, Senior Curator of European Art, and Richard Aste, former Curator of European Art, both st...
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Pablo Picasso "domestic": a walk through his childhood home in Malaga and the museum dedicated to him

Malaga is the city inAndalusia known for being the birthplace of Pablo Picasso (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, 1973). On the plaza de la Merced, in the heart of Malaga, is Picasso's childhood home, as well as the headquarters of the Fundación Pic...
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Art and sport. Athletics according to Robert Delaunay

The eighth Olympic Games were held in 1924 in Paris. Theathletics program, what is now known as the "queen" discipline of the Olympics, is held July 6-13, at the Stade Olympique in Colombes, a suburb of the French capital not far from Argenteuil. The...
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