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"tombstone": "Mother and Child (Study for Mother and Child), 1921. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881\u20131973). Pencil on paper; sheet: 24.8 x 32.1 cm (9 3/4 x 12 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection, 1949.527. \u00a9 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Picasso and Paper",
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"did_you_know": "Pablo Picasso had also explored depictions of mothers and children decades earlier, during his Blue Period.",
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"description": "This drawing is a study for a painting of the same title, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago today. Around the time it was made, Picasso gravitated toward an austere, linear style evocative of Classical art and timeless subjects. Here, a mother wears a Greek robe, gazing down at her newborn who reaches upward. The composition is one of over ten versions that Picasso created around this time.",
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"citation": "Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. Paris: Cahiers d'art, 1932.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 176; Reproduced: pl. 85",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 250, 325, no. 51",
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"citation": "Chipp, Herschel Browning , Alan Wofsy, and Fernand Mourlot. Picasso's paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculpture: a comprehensive illustrated catalogue, 1885-1973. San Francisco, CA: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1995.",
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"biography": "Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), the most prolific and influential artist of the 20th century, shifted the emphasis of art from its traditional concern with beauty toward radical innovation. The son of an art teacher, Picasso demonstrated remarkable talents as a child and entered the royal art academy in Madrid at age sixteen. Less than a year later, he abandoned his studies and soon joined several avant-garde artist and anarchist groups in Barcelona and Paris. After passing through a succession of stylistic periods, most notably the Blue (1901-1904) and Rose (1904-1906) Periods, he collaborated with Georges Braque (1882-1963) in 1908 to invent Cubism, a revolutionary method of restructuring pictorial space. Picasso remained active until his death in 1973. Although his art still appears radical, many of his works are over one hundred years old. Cubism, perhaps the most important development in 20th-century art, was invented around 1908 by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963). The most revolutionary aspect of the style was not its obvious emphasis on geometric form; rather, it was the introduction of a radically new approach to configuring pictorial space. Since the Renaissance, artists had used various methods to create the illusion of distant space receding behind the canvas surface. The Cubists rejected that idea and collapsed space by compressing foreground, middle ground, and background into a continuous web of overlapping, intersecting planes. During the 1910s, other painters and sculptors embraced or adapted Cubism to their own ends. This revolutionary approach inspired a host of related movements and continues to influence the visual language of artists, architects, and designers throughout the world.",
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