Researchers successfully trained #pigeons to distinguish between paintings by #Monet and those by #Picasso.
Read my new Beaks & Bones blog post for more details on Ig Nobel Prize-winning #research on one of the most underestimated #bird species:
https://beaksandbones.substack.com/p/picasso-pigeon
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Custom model trained on hundreds of images of Russian destruction in Ukraine saw a Picasso and did what war does. Cubists fragmented to see more fully. War fragments everything and sees nothing.
Woman with Debris, after Picasso — Testament I
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Adnkronos - Cultura: Matisse domina Sotheby's, 'La Chaise lorraine' vola a 48,4 milioni di dollari
(Adnkronos) - Successi anche per Picasso, Van Gogh e Giacometti nella “Modern Evening Auction” di New York
Matisse dominates Sotheby's, ‘La Chaise lorraine’ sells for $48.4 million.
(Adnkronos) - Successes also for Picasso, Van Gogh, and Giacometti in the “Modern Evening Auction” in New York.
#Matisse #Sothebys #Picasso,VanGogh #Giacometti #NewYork
These two codgers turned up at our local craft market, doggedly trying to make a dollar selling their ceramic plates. Hah! Neither could even draw a straight line! Who do they think they are ~ Picasso and Chagall? 😃 (yes! In 1948, at Madoura workshop)
https://blog.artsper.com/en/a-closer-look/understanding-picassos-ceramics/
@artinsociety #globalmuseum #ceramics #art #Picasso #Chagall
il manifesto: L’immagine vissuta dell’imprevisto
«Dipingo come gli altri scrivono la loro biografia: i miei quadri, finiti o no, sono le pagine del mio diario e, in quanto tali valgono», diceva Picasso a Françoise Gilot. […]
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The lived experience of the unexpected.
“I paint as others write their biography: my paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my diary and, as such, they have value,” Picasso told Françoise Gilot. […]
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(Cultura) «Dipingo come gli altri scrivono la loro biografia: i miei quadri, finiti o no, sono le pagine del mio diario e, in quanto tali valgono», diceva Picasso a Françoise Gilot. Il mezzo fotografico, in questo senso, si rivela un eccellente mediatore tra razionalità e inconscio: da una parte c’è il mondo, dall’altra la propria allucinazione.
Quick peekninside Museo Picasso, Barcelona.