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Jon Imber: The Spiral & the Source

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Painting Expanded

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John Walker: In Conversation

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Vollard Suite: Picasso's Mind at Work

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/apr/25/vollard-suite-mind-picasso-british-museum

Apr 25

Picasso, plate 13 of the Vollard Suite, December 1934, © Succession Picasso/DACS

Harpy with bull's head and four little girls on top of a tower with black flag; plate 13 of the Vollard Suite, December 1934, © Succession Picasso/DACS 2011

Jonathan Jones previews the exhibition Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite at the British Museum, London, on view from May 3 - September 2, 2012.

Jones asserts that "lay bare his imagination and his creative energy like nothing else he ever did. If every painting by Picasso were to vanish, and only this series of prints survived, his genius would still be obvious from this work alone. Guernica grows out of its imagery: in a sense (especially with its black and white palette) this famous painting is simply a translation to mural scale of the intense symbolism and mythic power of the etchings in the Vollard Suite."

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The Guardian

Picasso, Music & Negative Space

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http://theartblog.org/2011/02/picasso-music-and-negative-space-the-guitars-at-moma/

Andrea Kirsch reports on Picasso Guitars 1912-1914, on view at MOMA through June 6, 2011. Kirsch writes "like abstraction, for which music was both inspiration and justification, Picasso’s interest in negative space grew out of thinking about music; not musical form and language, but music production." In addition to thinking about the production of sound as a key inspiration Kirsch later brings up an interesting point about Picasso's "use of paint as if it were an element of collage."

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The Artblog

Picasso, Miró, Dalí: Angry Young Men

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http://berkshirereview.net/2011/07/picasso-miro-dali-angry-young-men-modernity-palazzo-strozzi-firenze/

Daniel B. Gallagher reviews the recent exhibition Picasso, Miró, Dalí. Angry Young Men: The Birth of Modernity at the Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze. The show examines the work of the three artists "Miró, Dalí, and Picasso while each was striving to invent a new visual language by contemplating the work of the other two."

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Berkshire Review

Picasso & Braque: The Cubist Experiment

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http://glasstire.com/2011/07/31/picasso-and-braque-the-cubist-experiment-1910-1912-at-the-kimbell-art-museum/

Betsy Lewis reviews the exhibition Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912 at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, on view through August 21, 2011.

Lewis notes: " If there is one realm where Picasso takes command of the experiment and distinguishes himself from his friend, it is the Cubism-ization of persons, specifically but not surprisingly, the female nude. Though dark browns and bronzes dominate all of the paintings, black smoke-like currents surrounding the subject of one of Picasso's nudes suggests a darkness of mind as well as palette..."

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Glasstire