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Pub. Date
2018
Description
Traces the story of Picasso's rise from an obscure young painter in Barcelona to one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, documenting the events of his first visit to Paris, his emergence as a leader of a group of bohemian artists, his gradual recognition by collectors and the 1906 creation of the disturbing masterpiece, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon."
"When Picasso became Picasso: the story of how an obscure young painter came...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Pablo Picasso may have been a world-famous artist, but that doesn't mean no one ever called his artwork "ugly." Any kid who's been told what to draw, or heard mean things about something they made, will relate to this story about how Pablo faced down his critics and made something truly original."--Jacket flap.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she first catches the attention of Pablo Picasso, a rising star in the art world. A brilliant but eccentric artist, Picasso sets his sights on Eva, and Eva can't help but be drawn into his web. But what starts as a torrid affair soon...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Pigasso, a talented pig, and Mootisse, an artistic bull, live across the road from one another, but when conflicts arise they build fences that ultimately become modern art masterpieces. Includes biographies of the real-life artists, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
14) Picasso
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Description
This book, with over 120 works illustrated in full color, presents the art of Pablo Picasso, one of the most original and creative artists of the twentieth century.
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Description
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...
18) Pablo Picasso
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Looks at the life and work of Pablo Picasso, following the development of his artistic style and his influence on twentieth-century art
19) Picasso
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Briefly examines the life and work of the renowned twentieth-century artist, describing and giving examples from his various periods or styles.
20) Picasso's war
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Presents the story of the town in northern Spain that was attacked by Hitler's Luftwaffe in 1937, an event that inspired Picasso's celebrated and controversial masterpiece, "Guernica."