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As DJs spun the night away, and rain drummed onto the clear roof, the rhythm of the party rose and fell in syncopated swaths of sound. And the tribes of moderns were content… (via Modern Ball Rolls Through the Picasso Periods | SFWIRE)

As DJs spun the night away, and rain drummed onto the clear roof, the rhythm of the party rose and fell in syncopated swaths of sound. And the tribes of moderns were content…

(via Modern Ball Rolls Through the Picasso Periods | SFWIRE)

fckyeaharthistory: “Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all. The fact that for a long time cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it, means nothing. I do not read English, and an English book is a blank to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist, and why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?” — Picasso Touché.

fckyeaharthistory:

“Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all. The fact that for a long time cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it, means nothing. I do not read English, and an English book is a blank to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist, and why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?” 
— Picasso

Touché.

Happy Birthday to the one and only Gertrude Stein, born on this day in 1874! Along with her brother Leo, Gertrude Stein was among the first Americans to respond with enthusiasm to the artistic revolution in Europe in the early years of the twentieth century. The weekly salons she held in her Paris apartment became a magnet for European and American artists and writers alike, and her support of Matisse, Braque, Gris, and Picasso was evident in her many acquisitions of their work.  Pictured here: Picasso’s Gertrude Stein, 1905-6 (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Happy Birthday to the one and only Gertrude Stein, born on this day in 1874!

Along with her brother Leo, Gertrude Stein was among the first Americans to respond with enthusiasm to the artistic revolution in Europe in the early years of the twentieth century. The weekly salons she held in her Paris apartment became a magnet for European and American artists and writers alike, and her support of Matisse, Braque, Gris, and Picasso was evident in her many acquisitions of their work. 

Pictured here: Picasso’s Gertrude Stein, 1905-6

(via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

wiblog: Hand-decorated tie & envelope from Pablo Picasso (by MoMA The Museum of Modern Art) Imagine if this showed up in your mailbox one day?

wiblog:

Hand-decorated tie & envelope from Pablo Picasso (by MoMA The Museum of Modern Art)

Imagine if this showed up in your mailbox one day?

brookdubois:

Caffeinated, SF Museum of Modern Art

Would you recognize this as a Picasso if it wasn’t captioned?  toomuchart: arthistoryx: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Olga, 1917.

Would you recognize this as a Picasso if it wasn’t captioned? 

toomuchart:

arthistoryx:

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Olga, 1917.

(via theartbeast)

Stella and Megan of our Public Programs department both accidentally matched today, AND they look like they’re dressed up as Picasso for his birthday. Stylish coincidences at every corner! Picasso’s version of this outfit:

Stella and Megan of our Public Programs department both accidentally matched today, AND they look like they’re dressed up as Picasso for his birthday. Stylish coincidences at every corner!

Picasso’s version of this outfit:

Matisse Goes South: Modern in Atlanta

Memo to art-loving Southerners: The 20th century’s A-team is on its way.

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol and 10 others form the backbone of an exhibit opening Oct. 15 at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, which is calling this show one of the largest collections of…

lasqueaky: Today I went to SF MOMA. This was one of my favorite paintings.  Melancholy Woman - Pablo Picasso “Hence loathèd Melancholy, / Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born.”

lasqueaky:

Today I went to SF MOMA. This was one of my favorite paintings. 

Melancholy Woman - Pablo Picasso

“Hence loathèd Melancholy, / Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born.”

(via lasqueaky-deactivated20111002)

Goodbye Gertrude!

The Steins Collect closes today, and this seems like the perfect quote to sum everything up with:

mariposa-serendipia:

“The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing”

- Gertrude Stein

Painting by Picasso

cranley: Dinner at Gertrude Stein’s, a story quilt by Faith Ringgold. See the Picasso reference!!

cranley:

Dinner at Gertrude Stein’s, a story quilt by Faith Ringgold. See the Picasso reference!!

(Source: sadvelvetgirl)

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