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	Paloma Picasso Paloma Picasso As the daughter of one of the twentieth century's most influential artists, Paloma Picasso (born 1949) hesitated to enter the world of design. She did not want to be compared to her father, nor did she relish the unavoidable notoriety his name would provide. Once she began to show... Read more
	Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso (Pablo Ruiz y Picasso) , 1881-1973, Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and ceramist, who worked in France. He is generally considered in his technical virtuosity, enormous versatility, and incredible originality and prolificity to have been the foremost figure in 20th-century... Read more
	Kurt Schwitters Kurt Schwitters , 1887-1948, German artist. Influenced by Kandinsky, by Picasso's reliefs, and by Dada constructions, he invented Merz [trash] constructions—arrangements of diverse materials and objects. Schwitters created gigantic architectural structures out of rubbish. His collages ... Read more
	Andre Salmon Salmon, André (1881–1969). French writer—a poet, novelist, art critic, biographer, and memoirist. He was born in Paris, the son of an engraver, and grew up in St Petersburg, where his father had found work. After returning to France to do military service he settled on a literary... Read more
	neoclassicism Neoclassicism. A term that usually refers to a major revival of the ideals and forms of ancient Greek and Roman art in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but which in the context of modern art is applied to a more limited revival of the spirit of classicism among avant-garde artists in the... Read more
	Ambroise Vollard Ambroise Vollard , 1867-1939, French art dealer, collector, and publisher. He was noted for his early recognition and sponsorship of leading artists of the school of Paris , especially Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso (for whom he held the first one-man exhibitions), and Rouault. He made... Read more
	Antibes Antibes , resort town (1990 pop. 70,688), in Alpes-Maritimes dept., SE France, on the Riviera . It is a seaport and the center of a great flower-growing region; a school of horticulture is there. Nearby is the fashionable resort Cap d'Antibes. The town was founded as a Greek colony in the 4th cent.... Read more
	Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr. 1902-81, American art historian, b. Detroit. Barr taught art history at several colleges and was the first director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. He organized more than 100 museum exhibitions and wrote a number of standard art history texts. These include ... Read more
	Albert Leon Gleizes Albert Léon Gleizes , 1881-1953, French cubist painter, illustrator, and writer. He was among the outstanding cubists in the Salon des Indépendants of 1911. Gleizes employed a rich palette in contrast to the essentially monochromatic effects of Braque and Picasso, and his work remained... Read more
	Guernica Guernica , historic town (1990 pop. 16,422), Vizcaya prov., N Spain, in the Basque region. It has metallurgical, furniture, and food manufacturers, and some tourism. The oak of Guernica, under which the diet of Vizcaya used to meet, is a symbol of the lost liberties of the Basques. In Apr., 1937,... Read more

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	Fatally flawed by time He used to be talked about in the same breath as Henry... Newspaper article from: The Independent (London, England) ...in staging a Graham Sutherland retrospective at the Picasso Museum in Antibes...crime. The Musee Picasso's thorough...his heyday, Sutherland's name was...bequeathed Picasso Museum in Antibes...studio) that ...
	Summer and Sculpture Along the Cote d'Azur Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune ...or years on end: Picasso and Matisse, Bonnard...remains that the Picasso Museum in Antibes...monstrous alien idols by Graham Sutherland and, in one room...Matisse Museum and the Musee d'Art Moderne...playful sculptures by ...
	Headmaster Magazine article from: New Statesman (1996) ...Then, in 1964, a visit to the Musee de ' Homme in Paris proved both...befriended in Dublin, London or Paris. Picasso is there, and Francis Bacon...cartoons. Unlike the much-vaunted Graham Sutherland tapestry in Coventry Cathedral...