Saturday, March 12, 2011

Monday, February 28, 2011

Klimt and Kitty

Just found this great picture of artist Gustav Klimt (most famous for his work, The Kiss) with a kitty cat!

His painting A Portrait of Adele Bloch-Baur:



Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Cubist Poetry

Gertrude Stein was close friends with Picasso (this is a portrait of her that he painted).  She is a very important poet and her poetry is considered Cubist in nature.  Her repetitive phrases breaks up the space and timing of traditional poetry (and speaking), much like Picasso did with his paintings.

This is one of her most well known poems;

If I Told Him- A Completed Portrait of Picasso

This is her reading it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8cSXVNn92s