Picasso was born October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. He spent his teen-age years in Barcelona, a hot bed of anarchy in the 1890’s. His friends were anarchist writers and artists, ten and twenty years older than he: Santiago Rusinol (1861-1931), Ramon Casas (1866-1932), and Isidro Nonell (1873-1911). They discussed the writings of Proudhon, Bakunin, [...]
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The Moment of Cubism
Posted in Cubism, tagged Braques, cubism, desire, music, Picasso on September 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The moment at which a piece of music begins provides a clue to the nature of all art. The incongruity of that moment, compared to the uncounted, unperceived silence which preceded it, is the secret of art. What is the meaning of that incongruity and the shock which accompanies it? It is to be found [...]
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