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Pablo Picasso

My favorite artist at the Nasher museum was Picasso. His artwork was impressive and colorful unlike some other paintings in other places.

Now here are some interesting facts about him. When Germany outlawed bronze casting in Paris the French resistance smuggled bronze to him. His last words where ” Drink to me, drink to my health, You know I can not drink anymore. ” This was at a party. Picasso had a blue period and a rose period. One of the quotes he made was, “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” Pablo Picasso was also a printmaker. Pablo Picasso has been on postage stamps and all of his paintings together are valued at over 150 million dollars. Pablo Picasso invented cubism. Do you like Picasso’s artwork? It looks like he really worked hard on his paintings.

 

Spinning Man By Madison K.

Recently, my grade visited The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. We went to this one exhibit where all the pieces of art were by Mark Bradford. This was my favorite exhibit. In this exhibit there was a painting he made called Spinning Man. Mark used all kinds of materials to make this art piece which was made of string, wire, felt, and paint. This is an illusion he made. In this art piece their is a man who is dizzy and Mark made the art piece look like an effect of being dizzy. This was my favorite piece in the whole museum.

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Following Their Passion

Dr. Claribel Cone and Etta Cone

The Cone sisters, Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone, had a very sophisticated eye for art. They became very good friends with Henri Matisse, an artist from the south of France. The Cone sisters bought their first Matisse in 1906. They favored artists hardly known by their friends, such as Cezanne, Manet, Picasso, and Renoir. In the early 1900s, the Cone sisters became close friends with Gertrude Stein and her brother, Leo, and traveled with them through Paris and other European cities, visiting museums, galleries and artist studios–and buying art.

The sisters were best friends; they never married and lived in adjoining apartments that were crowded with art. Claribel, six years older than her sister, went to medical school and became one of the world’s first female physicians. She was bold and confident, while her sister Etta was timid and spent much of her life taking care of family members. While Etta seemed overpowered by her sister, she made most of the decisions when it came to buying art.

Claribel died in 1929, but Etta went on acquiring art and buying more paintings for their collection throughout the ‘30s and ‘40s before her death in 1949. Etta willed the entire collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. After the Baltimore museum made its selections, the rest of the collection went to the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina, now called the Weatherspoon Art Museum. The Cone sisters had created one of the most important modern art collections of the 20th century.

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