Pablo Picasso (Great Hispanic Heritage) (Repost)
Pablo Picasso (Great Hispanic Heritage) By Tim McNeese
2006 | 123 Pages | ISBN: 079108843X | PDF | 1 MB
2006 | 123 Pages | ISBN: 079108843X | PDF | 1 MB
McNeese does a wonderful job of describing these men's lives and, more importantly, the times in which they lived. Like most biographies, the books follow their subjects from birth to death, filling in the names, dates, and faces along the way, but McNeese mainly discusses the men in terms of their art. However, because of the cultural influence of both Picasso and Dali, the author shows how they were both the products of the past and creators of the future. Throughout the texts, the artists cross paths with one another and with various other artists, writers, and political and cultural figures. Picasso includes representative pictures from each phase of the artist's career; Dali is woefully short on sample paintings. Nonetheless, both titles are expertly researched and concise introductions to two of the world's greatest artistic visionaries.