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In the lushly romantic Faun Unveiling a Sleeping Woman, he used aquatint with etching to create a scene of exquisite tenderness. And in his most celebrated print, the Minotauromachie of , he combined etching and engraving to create a scene that looks as if it is carved in low relief.

No one can say for sure what symbolic significance Picasso assigned to this cast of characters that includes the blind Minotaur, a disembowelled horse carrying a wounded female matador, an innocent little girl holding a candle and flowers, a man on a ladder who might have stepped out of a rendering of the Descent from the Cross, and two other young girls watching from a tower.

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But in this unforgettable image, Picasso encapsulated virtually all the themes he explored throughout his career: One of the things Picasso liked about printmaking is that by printing a plate at different stages in the evolution of a composition he was able to follow his own creative processes - something that in his paintings he could only do by taking photos of a picture as he worked. A spectacular example in this show is a series of 11 black-and-white lithographs showing a bull, which he made between December 5 and January 17 Each image shows the bull in full-length profile from the same distance.

The first three prints in the series are naturalistic renderings of the animal in rich velvety chiaroscuro. But by the fourth image Picasso starts to analyse the planes of the bull's mighty bulk, marking out the flanks, loins, haunches, legs and head like a butcher preparing cuts of meat. From here on, Picasso parts company with naturalism, reducing the bull to faceted cubist planes, making the head smaller and the outlines simpler, until by the last print in the series he uses only 10 curved lines, a circle and an oval to create a schematic representation of something we can only just recognise as a bull.

If I have made this process sound dry, it isn't. As in all of Picasso's depictions of animals, these images are characterised by his inimitable mixture of affection and wit.

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As I hope you can see, the range and variety of the techniques Picasso used to make his prints is exceptional, and often enough their iconography needs interpretation. That is why I highly recommend a look through Patrick Elliott's excellent catalogue, and that you budget a couple of hours to see this beautifully presented show properly. In Pictures - the story of love and romance: As a soldier he allegedly objected to the military practice of troops marching on the left-hand side of the road with weapons at the ready in their right hands.

In those days baseball diamonds were laid out with the home plate to the west so that right-handed batters would face east and avoid squinting into the afternoon sun.

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That said, no fewer than 16 of the top 20 career batting averages in major-league baseball history have been posted by left-handed batters, with leftie Babe Ruth at the apex with home runs. These days southpaw is most often used to describe a boxer who jabs with his right and hooks with his left.


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Mining images from mass media, advertising and entertainment since the late s, Richard Prince has redefined the concepts of authorship, ownership, and aura. Applying his understanding of the complex transactions of representation to the making of art, he evolved a unique signature filled with echoes of other signatures yet that is unquestionably his own.

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An avid collector and perceptive chronicler of American subcultures and vernaculars and their role in the construction of American identity, he has probed the depths of racism, sexism, and psychosis in mainstream humor; the mythical status of cowboys, bikers, customized cars, and celebrities; and most recently, the push—pull allure of pulp fiction and soft porn, producing such unlikely icons as the highly coveted Nurse paintings.

Richard Prince was born in in the Panama Canal Zone.

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Listed Exhibitions Selected Bibliography Selected. See all Exhibitions for Richard Prince. June 14—17, Messe Basel, booth B11 www. To receive a PDF with detailed information on the works, please contact the gallery at inquire gagosian.