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Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space. Inspired by African and Iberian art, he also contributed to the rise of Surrealism and Expressionism. Picasso’s sizable oeuvre grew to include over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures,ceramics, theater sets, and costume designs. He painted his most famous work, Guernica (1937), in response to the Spanish Civil War; the totemic grisaille canvas remains a definitive work of anti-war art. At auction, a number of Picasso’s paintings have sold for more than $100 million. The indefatigable artist has been the subject of exhibitions at the world’s most prestigious institutions, from the Museum of Modern Art and Centre Pompidou to the Stedelijk Museum and Tate Modern.

Jim Shaw
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Dream Object ("I was in my gallery in Japan...Next I went into an organic shaped room with flattened columns on the bud shaped walls. The paintings were of Native American Indians gambling painted in such a way that upon entering you saw regular South Seas "tribal" graphics but when you turned back out you saw a figurative scene projected and painted from the P.O.V. of one exiting, the wall designs sort of animated as you walked out."), 1999

Acrylic on cardboard half-tubes

MASS MoCA

North Adams

Artist Series

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