Now, just as avid an art collector, Jay Z spoke about the meeting of cultural worlds (and rapped about them) in “Picasso Baby”.
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If only he had worked for FIFA, he might have a Picasso by now.
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And let us be sure, also, that the Picasso goes back to the Hermitage Museum.
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The well in which he unabashedly dips back into over and over is that of Picasso.
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There are numerous paintings and drawings of Olga, who served as Picasso's muse for many years.
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Fernand Léger, with the exception of Picasso, is the most genuinely talented artist of the Cubist movement.
Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning|Willard Huntington Wright
All the world over are students and young painters to whom his mere name is thrilling; to whom Picasso is the liberator.
Since Czanne|Clive Bell
The same may be said of Picasso in his most abstract works: but not of all his followers, nor of all Mallarm's either.
Since Czanne|Clive Bell
But Picasso himself is already far away elaborating an idea that came to him one day as he contemplated a drawing by Ingres.
Since Czanne|Clive Bell
There has been much controversy as to whether it originated with Picasso or with one of his followers.
Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning|Willard Huntington Wright
British Dictionary definitions for Picasso
Picasso
/ (pɪˈkæsəʊ) /
noun
Pablo (ˈpæbləʊ). 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor, resident in France: a highly influential figure in 20th-century art and a founder, with Braque, of cubism. A prolific artist, his works include The Dwarf Dancer (1901), belonging to his blue period; the first cubist painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907); Three Dancers (1925), which appeared in the first surrealist exhibition; and Guernica (1937), inspired by an event in the Spanish Civil War