GENIUS: PICASSO ANTONIO BANDERAS AND ALEX RICH ARE FABULOUS!

I am addicted to Picasso this week...Wow, Antonio Banderas and Alex Rich do a fabulous job portraying the Genius: Picasso. What a complicated story and a very complicated soul was Pablo Picasso...I had to keep looking up his list of women, friends, girlfriends,wives,lovers etc... Here is that page..

Picasso's story is a long one as he bgan his career in his early teens and painnted until his death in his 90s. what a man... Take a peek at the trailer..

Picasso's art was fueled by women..even until his death in 1973. He abused their trust but then...they are were forewarned about his reputation as a lady's man before they entered the man's studio...You might say they knew the job was dangerous when they took it...

As one of the 20th century’s most influential and celebrated artists, Pablo Picasso imagined and interpreted the world in totally new and unorthodox ways, reinventing our perception of creativity in the process. Starring Antonio Banderas and Alex Rich in the titular role, the second season of National Geographic’s 10-part, Emmy-nominated global event series, "Genius: Picasso," explores how the Spanish-born artist’s passionate nature and relentless creative drive were inextricably linked to his personal life, which included tumultuous marriages, numerous affairs and constantly shifting political and personal alliances.

Picasso and His Muses

Life of Picasso

Picasso: the Triumphant Years

  

EUGENE DELACROIX TO HAVE FIRST NORTH AMERICAN RETROSPECTIVE!

Eugène Delacroix Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable

Delacroix, the Visionary Romantic Artist, Gets First Major North American Retrospective. A new exhibition at the Met features nearly 150 of Delacroix’s paintings, drawings and prints

By Brigit Katz
Smithsonian.com

Eugène Delacroix, whose stormy, boundary-defying paintings captivated France in the 19th century, is one of history’s most significant artists. He was a leader of the Romantic Movement, and is regarded by many as a forefather of modernism. The likes of Picasso, Cézanne and van Gogh hailed him as a genius.

“Delacroix’s palette is still the most beautiful in France,” Cézanne once opined. “We all paint in his language.”

Eugène Delacroix self portrait

And yet, in spite of Delacroix’s towering legacy, his art has never been showcased in a full-scale retrospective in North America, Roberta Smith reports for the New York Times. That changes today, as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York unveils an expansive exhibition featuring nearly 150 Delacroix works.

Titled simply “Delacroix,” the new retrospective was organized in conjunction with the Louvre, which staged its own Delacroix show earlier this year, to great success.

The Death of Sardanapalus

The New York exhibition will be missing some of the artist’s most famous works, like his French Revolution allegory “Liberty Leading the People,” because they are too fragile to make the journey overseas. But the wealth of paintings, drawings, prints and manuscripts on display gives North American audiences “a rare opportunity to experience the breathtaking talent and remarkable scope of one of the most creative forces of the nineteenth century,” Met director Max Hollein says in a statement.

The exhibition, which spans 12 galleries, is organized chronologically into three distinct phases of the artist’s career: His formative years between 1822 and 1834; his exploration of historical themes, rendered on large murals, between 1835 and 1855; and his interest in nature and memory, which informed his later works until his death in 1863. Read more: 

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WYETH: AMERICAN MASTERS “ARTISTS FLIGHT” ON PBS

Christina's World Andrew Wyeth

WYETH tells the story of one of America’s most popular, but least understood, artists – Andrew Wyeth. Son of the famous illustrator N.C. Wyeth, Andrew had his first exhibition at age 20, and his painting “Christina’s World” was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 1948.

While Wyeth’s exhibitions routinely broke attendance records, art world critics continually assaulted his work. Detailing the stunning drawings and powerful portraits he created in Chadds Ford, Pa. and on the coast of Cushing, Maine, WYETH explores his inspirations, including neighbor Christina Olsen and his hidden muse, the German model Helga Testorf, who he painted secretly for 15 years.

Through unprecedented access to Wyeth’s family members, including sons Jamie and Nicholas Wyeth, and never-before-seen archival materials from the family’s personal collection and hundreds of Wyeth’s studies, drawings and paintings, American Masters presents the most complete portrait of the artist yet — bearing witness to a legacy just at the moment it is evolving.

Directed by Glenn Holsten, the film will be available on Digital HD on September 8 and on DVD September 11 via PBS Distribution.

AMERICAN MASTERS “ARTISTS FLIGHT” on PBS

Uncovering the lives and works of four groundbreaking visual artists, American Masters presents an “Artists Flight” of new documentaries, premiering Fridays, August 31-September 14 on PBS (check local listings).