Picasso Exhibit

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Article on a ginormous exhibit of Picasso drawings in Paris.

Anyone have a couch in Paris I can camp out on?

 

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The first word that Pablo Picasso ever pronounced was “pencil.”

At least that was how his mother remembered the young prodigy: that he drew before he could speak, and that the word “piz” — short for “lápiz,” or pencil in Spanish — was the first sound he ever made.

That’s because young Pablo grew up in the atelier of his father, José Ruiz Blasco: an academic painter, art teacher and restorer to whom he was apprenticed when he could barely walk and whom he quickly emulated...

...Picasso’s father was an academic painter who often had to paint pigeons and doves, so little Pablo was in charge of making sure that these pigeons and doves wouldn’t fly off. He fed the pigeons and attached them to panels to stop them from moving during the sitting, because his father had to be able to paint them...

...Nearly 1,000 works — notebooks, drawings and engravings, most of them borrowed from the Picasso Museum in Paris — will be on show in what is billed as the largest-ever retrospective of the Iberian master’s drawings and engravings. The exhibit, “Picasso: Endlessly Drawing,” runs through Jan. 15...

 

 

Exploring the ‘Epicenter’ of Pablo Picasso in His Drawings