- Hubs »
- tagged picasso
1-10 of 181 Hubssort by Hot Best Latest
7910 Must Do’s Whilst Visiting Barcelona
Barcelona is Spain’s second largest city & the capital of Catalonia. It is the 16th most visited city in the world & the fourth most visited in Europe. Many buildings in Barcelona date back to medieval times & some even as far back as Roman times. Most of the magnificent architecture that you will see all over Barcelona has been ascribed to be the work of Antonio Gaudi.
0 comments
77Monet's Water Lilies: How to get the Most out of Impressionist Paintings
My first look at the Portland Museum’s Water Lilies by Claude Monet took my breath away. I felt I was in the presence of Monsieur Monet himself. So I spent a lot of time with this large painting, and realized that there was one and only one single distance in which the entire painting coalesced.
2 comments
66Barcelona Is For Lovers
Interestingly enough this is where the tradition of giving red roses to out sweethearts' began. The story is told that Saint George a Roman soldier that was martyred for his christian beliefs in the 4th century, killed a dragon that was about to...
0 comments
58Primavera
When Zephyrus blew his fertile winds And spring issued from Cloris’s mouth I met you Perhaps in a dream When Picasso adored a sleeping Fernande After his paintings reflected his sadness Over the suicide of Carlos Casagemas His rose...
0 comments
78Top Ten Most Popular Fine Art Posters
So how to decide what are the top ten fine art posters? You could base it on price paid for a particular piece of fine artwork, but that is only an indication of one person’s disposable income and not really a true sense of its worth. The other...
4 comments
63Blue
In blues and greens, a woman bends over her knees. She aches in cold colors. Sunlight brushes the crook of her back where winter never warms. I nearly see her tears, face sunk in fenced arms, feet tucked beneath the canvas. I...
60The wonderful Spanish culture!
When you think of Spain, what comes to mind? You are probably thinking Flamenco music and dance, bullfights, beaches, sunshine and paella (which, by the way is utterly delicious with chicken!). If so, you'd be correct, but Spain does have more to...
0 comments
67Why I Love Paris
Not the romantic type and quite skeptical about the so called 'city of love' I was completely taken by surprise by the effect that this beautiful city had on my senses. Charmed and captivated by it's magnificence and beauty I was pulled in hook line and sinker under it's magical spell. Ahh Paris... What can one say!
11 comments
65LGBT People from History 19 - Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas
Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) was an American poet, writer and collector of art. She moved around a lot in early life before studying at Radcliffe College and Johns Hopkins Medical School. She became involved in ‘stream of consciousness‘...
2 comments
65LGBT People of History 15 - Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (1889 – 1963) was a person of contradictions and a leading light in the avant-garde artistic movement in France in the early part of the twentieth century. He counted the likes of Picasso, Modigliani, Proust,...
5 comments
