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Genius: Picasso is the second season of National Geographic's first fully scripted drama series. Diving into the life and loves of the brilliant Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (Antonio Banderas), this season showcases Picasso's significant and wide-ranging contribution to modern art. Exploring the Spanish expatriate's devotion to his craft, the series also reveals Picasso's relationships with other well-known personalities of the time, including Coco...

The spectacular fourth and final volume of Picasso's life is set in Paris, Normandy, the south of France, Royan, and Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and at the beginning of World War II. Drawing on original and exhaustive research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives, this book opens with a visit by the Hungarian-French photographer Brassaï to Picasso's chateau in Normandy, Boisgeloup, where he would...

"Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists-- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end and a new beginning, a break that led onto new creative...

"Mayo de 1937. La Guerra Civil sigue su sangriento curso en Esp♯a, pero tambßn lejos de los campos de batalla se combate entre las sombras. Una doble misÞin lleva a Lorenzo FalÞc hasta Pars con el objetivo de intentar, de cualquier forma posible, que el Guernica que est pintando Pablo Picasso no llegue nunca a la ExposicÞin Universal donde la Re{250}pblica pretende conseguir apoyo internacional. Aunque ya se adivinan en Europa los vientos de...

The novel Don Quixote, written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deeply philosophical, Cervantes' novel and its characters have become integrated into the cultures of the Western Hemisphere, influencing language and modern thought while inspiring art and artists such as Richard...

A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art's central role in culture today. ""A fresh take on art history as we know it."" (Katy Hessel, The Great Women Artists Podcast)