Saint-Rémy-de-Provence y Van Gogh. Un refugio bajo el sol
La noche estrellada y otros muchos cuadros de
Van Gogh (1853-1890) fueron pintados en el coqueto pueblo de Saint-Rémy. El pintor no llegó aquí como los despreocupados turistas que visitan este rincón de la Provenza: lo hizo para ingresar en el Monastère Saint-Paul de Mausole, convertido entonces en asilo. A salvo tras los muros del monasterio vivió su periodo más productivo: 150 dibujos y unas 150 pinturas, incluidos sus fabulosos
Lirios o
La noche estrellada y varios de sus autorretratos. Hoy el monasterio se puede visitar y, además de un bonito claustro románico, encontramos una réplica de su habitación abierta al público y unos jardines con las flores que protagonizaron su obra.
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Pablo Picasso: The Life Story You May Not Know
By Ellen Wulfhorst, Stacker News
On 5/19/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
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Pablo Picasso was an unrivaled titan of 20th-century art. He influenced and collaborated with such fellow creative geniuses as Henri Matisse and Georges Braque, and the works of his Blue Period and his Rose Period are familiar to even the most casual museum-goer.
In politics, Picasso took an unwavering stand against fascism in his homeland. After a visit in 1934, he vowed not to return to Spain so long as the dictator General Francisco Franco was alive, and he never went home again. In joining the French Communist Party, he declared: I have always been an exile, now I am one no longer; until the time when Spain may finally receive me, the French Communist Party has opened its arms to me.
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It s safe to say Pablo Picasso is one of the world s most legendary artists. As one of the creators of Cubism, his works remain celebrated in museums and galleries across the globe. Here are eight facts about the iconic artist.
1. Pablo Picasso s real name was Pablo Ruiz.
Well, actually Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. The Spanish artist adopted his mother s Italian surname because he thought it suited him better. Here s how he explained it to Hungarian artist George Brassaï: [Picasso] was stranger, more resonant, than Ruiz . Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain. Picasso is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance. Can you imagine me calling myself Ruiz? Pablo Ruiz? Diego-José Ruiz? Or Juan-Népomucène Ruiz?
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