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How Love Found Picasso

Author : Joseph Roberts

Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Page : 53 pages

File Size : 25,57 MB

Release : 2021-11-19

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1098096207

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Picasso is a starving artist from Italy whose name, along with not being the actual Picasso limits his success to the point of feeling defeated. He is truly talented though. What compounds feeling defeated is that Picasso also starves for love just as much as success. Friends of Picasso believe in his talent though, surprising him on his birthday with plane tickets and entry fee to the "New Artist Expo" in Chicago. While in Chicago, Picasso finds an abysmal string of bad luck by doing awful at the New Artist Expo, along with losing his passport and airline tickets back home, but most importantly missing several opportunities to meet the most beautiful woman he has ever laid eyes on. With a small beam of redemption, Picasso's friends find him a way back home to Italy by way of a cargo ship leaving from New York in just a few days. Using his art and the sorrow of a missed opportunity to find love as a catalyst, Picasso bows out of Chicago on an adventure to New York just in time to catch the cargo ship back home. Little does he know that Love is on the way to find Him! Love is a recovered hippy with beauty and kindness bursting from the seams. She is also a high-level executive who has traded the hope of finding true love for her career in Chicago. With the prompting of her friends, she decides to go back to her roots. For only one day she decides to wear a beautiful flower dress that deep down inside her heart hopes to draw the attention of a man and fall truly in love. Unknowingly she is spotted by Picasso on several occasions over the course of the day, but sadly they never officially meet due to tragic yet hilarious circumstances. Love gives up on love once again. Until the very next day when she is walking home from church and spots a painting leaning up against a flower stand with her in it wearing the very same dress she was wearing just the day before! Instantly, Love believes that love lies behind the artist of the painting! Details on the whereabouts of the artist are given to Love from the florist who "bought the painting from some poor sap trying to get to New York who hopped a bus to Sandusky, Ohio earlier today." Thus begins the adventure of "How Love Found Picasso!"



Life with Picasso

Author : Françoise Gilot

Publisher : New York Review of Books

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 12,52 MB

Release : 2019-06-11

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 168137319X

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Françoise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists. Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of ten years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picasso’s two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picasso’s muses; she was also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become. Life with Picasso, written with Carlton Lake and published in 1961, is about Picasso the artist and Picasso the man. We hear him talking about painting and sculpture, his life, his career, as well as other artists, both contemporaries and old masters. We glimpse Picasso in his many and volatile moods, dismissing his work, exultant over his work, entertaining his various superstitions, being an anxious father. But Life with Picasso is not only a portrait of a great artist at the height of his fame; it is also a picture of a talented young woman of exacting intelligence at the outset of her own notable career.



Loving Picasso

Author : Fernande Olivier

Publisher :

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 46,5 MB

Release : 2001-05

Category : Art

ISBN :

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Fernande Olivier was the first real love in the life of Picasso, and the years she spent with the great artist, 1904 to 1912, coincide with some of his most revolutionary work. "Loving Picasso" brings Oliver's memoirs to life with archival photos, reproductions of her own artwork, and a selection of superb portraits of her by Picasso himself. 82 illustrations, 10 in full color.



A Face for Picasso

Author : Ariel Henley

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 39,70 MB

Release : 2021-11-02

Category : Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN : 0374314098

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A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book for Teens "Raw and unflinching . . . A must-read!" --Marieke Nijkamp, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends "[It] cuts to the heart of our bogus ideas of beauty." –Scott Westerfeld, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Uglies I am ugly. There's a mathematical equation to prove it. At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome -- a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it. Growing up, Ariel and her sister endured numerous appearance-altering procedures. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the physical aspect of their condition was painful, it was nothing compared to the emotional toll of navigating life with a facial disfigurement. Ariel explores beauty and identity in her young-adult memoir about resilience, sisterhood, and the strength it takes to put your life, and yourself, back together time and time again.



Cooking for Picasso

Author : Camille Aubray

Publisher :

Page : 402 pages

File Size : 38,94 MB

Release : 2016

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0399177655

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"The French Riviera, spring 1936. It's off-season in the lovely seaside village of Juan-les-Pins, where seventeen-year-old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family-owned Cafe Paradis. A mysterious new patron who's slipped out of Paris and is traveling under a different name has made an unusual request--to have his lunch served to him at the nearby villa he's secretly rented ... Pablo Picasso is at a momentous crossroads in his personal and professional life--and for him, art and women are always entwined ... New York, present day. Caeline, a Hollywood makeup artist who's come home for the holidays, learns from her mother Julie that Grandmother Ondine once cooked for Picasso"--



Vanished Smile

Author : R.A. Scotti

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 42,65 MB

Release : 2010-04-06

Category : Art

ISBN : 0307278387

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On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s most celebrated painting vanished from the Louvre. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. The sensational disappearing act captured the world’s imagination. Crowds stood in line to view the empty space on the museum wall. Thousands more waited, as concerned as if Mona Lisa were a missing person, for news of the lost painting. Almost a century later, questions still linger: Who really pinched Mona Lisa, and why? Part love story, part mystery, Vanished Smile reopens the puzzling case that transformed a Renaissance portrait into the most enduring icon of all time.



Viva Picasso

Author : David Douglas Duncan

Publisher : Penguin Putnam

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 33,13 MB

Release : 1980

Category : Art

ISBN :

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Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World

Author : Miles J. Unger

Publisher : Simon & Schuster

Page : 480 pages

File Size : 41,15 MB

Release : 2019-03-26

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1476794227

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One of The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 “An engrossing read…a historically and psychologically rich account of the young Picasso and his coteries in Barcelona and Paris” (The Washington Post) and how he achieved his breakthrough and revolutionized modern art through his masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. In 1900, eighteen-year-old Pablo Picasso journeyed from Barcelona to Paris, the glittering capital of the art world. For the next several years he endured poverty and neglect before emerging as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. Here he met his first true love and enjoyed his first taste of fame. Decades later Picasso would look back on these years as the happiest of his long life. Recognition came first from the avant-garde, then from daring collectors like Leo and Gertrude Stein. In 1907, Picasso began the vast, disturbing masterpiece known as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Inspired by the painting of Paul Cézanne and the inventions of African and tribal sculpture, Picasso created a work that captured the disorienting experience of modernity itself. The painting proved so shocking that even his friends assumed he’d gone mad, but over the months and years it exerted an ever greater fascination on the most advanced painters and sculptors, ultimately laying the foundation for the most innovative century in the history of art. In Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World, Miles J. Unger “combines the personal story of Picasso’s early years in Paris—his friendships, his romances, his great ambition, his fears—with the larger story of modernism and the avant-garde” (The Christian Science Monitor). This is the story of an artistic genius with a singular creative gift. It is “riveting…This engrossing book chronicles with precision and enthusiasm a painting with lasting impact in today’s art world” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), all of it played out against the backdrop of the world’s most captivating city.



Picasso Et Les Femmes

Author : Pablo Picasso

Publisher : Dumont

Page : 428 pages

File Size : 47,71 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Women in art

ISBN :

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Edited by Ingrid Mussinger, Beate Ritter and Kerstin Drechsel, Essays by Johannes M. Fox, Norman Mailer, Pierre Daix, Amanda Vail and John Richardson.



Picasso and Minou

Author : P. I. Maltbie

Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing

Page : 44 pages

File Size : 32,47 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1570916209

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The artist Pablo Picasso's cat Minou influences him to discontinue his Blue Period style of painting to begin creating works that will sell more quickly.