Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso], 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are commonly regarded as the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.
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Lives and Deaths of the Poets spoofs and parodies incidents taken from the lives of famous writers, artists, and musicians (collectively "Poets") throughout history. Comprising a series of approximately 50 comic vignettes, the movie is the fictional story of what really did not happen to these famed Poets, who have so enriched all of our lives.
Keywords: emperor-nero, independent-film, musician, nudity, parody, poet, sketch-comedy, spoof, writer
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Gil and Inez travel to Paris as a tag-along vacation on her parents' business trip. Gil is a successful Hollywood writer but is struggling on his first novel. He falls in love with the city and thinks they should move there after they get married, but Inez does not share his romantic notions of the city or the idea that the 1920s was the golden age. When Inez goes off dancing with her friends, Gil takes a walk at midnight and discovers what could be the ultimate source of inspiration for writing. Gil's daily walks at midnight in Paris could take him closer to the heart of the city but further from the woman he's about to marry.
Keywords: 1890s, 1920s, 19th-century, 2010s, 20th-century, 21st-century, american, american-abroad, american-tourist, antique-dealer
Adriana: That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.
Inez: You're in love with a fantasy.::Gil: I'm in love with you.
Gil: I'm having trouble because I'm a Hollywood hack who never gave real literature a shot.
Gil: Yes, but you're a surrealist! I'm a normal guy!
Gil: It's understated but elegant. That's what you always say.::Helen: Cheap is cheap. That's what I always say.
Inez: You always take the side of the help. That's why Daddy says you're a communist.
Gil: Gil Pender.::Ernest Hemingway: Hemingway.::Gil: Hemingway?::Ernest Hemingway: You liked my book?::Gil: Liked? I loved all of your work.::Ernest Hemingway: Yes. It was a good book because it was an honest book, and that's what war does to men. And there's nothing fine and noble about dying in the mud unless you die gracefully. And then it's not only noble but brave.
Gil: You can fool me, but you cannot fool Ernest Hemingway!
Gil: What is it with this city? I need to write a letter to the Chamber of Commerce.
Ernest Hemingway: No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
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A November day in Cold War Britain. And Spanish Communist party member Pablo Picasso steps off the train to attend the 1950 Sheffield World Peace Congress. A disastrous day for the British Peace movement as the conference is called to a halt by a fearful Government. But Picasso's visit will go on to touch the lives of many. One man in particular - the Sheffield barber who cuts Picasso's hair - will carry the memory of his encounter forever. Paul Freeman stars as Picasso in this fascinating and poetic new drama inspired by real events. Stunningly lit and filmed in black and white by cinematographer Mike Fox BSC. Produced and directed by Tim Newton, the film also stars Marc Berman, Jeff Rawle and Colin Stinton..
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Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, modigliani, montparnasse, one-word-title
His passion was life. His obsession was art.
His Ending Was The Tragedy of Pure Genius...
Pablo Picasso: Why do you hate me so much?::Amedeo Modigliani: I love you, Pablo. It's myself I hate.
Amedeo Modigliani: Tell me, Pablo, how do you make love to a cube?
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Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso were two of the greatest painters of the 20th Century.It is a story of Competition, envy and resentment between the Spanish ex-patriate Picasso (1881- 1973) and the French artist Matisse (1869-1954).Although Matisse's art,including his painting "The Blue Nude" was considered quite scandalous for it's time in turn of the century Paris, and despite their twelve year age difference, the two legends continued to inspire each others work for decades.
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At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe they are important Nazi figures to act out their fantasies. The therapy sessions show Hitler consolidating his power by assembling his gang of supporters; however, they are interrupted at times, once because Davidson's uniform is at the dry cleaners, and another time because a patient who believes he is Picasso interrupts a session.
Keywords: independent-film
He Couldn't Tell Reich From Wrong