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Christie’s May 4 Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale achieved a total of $335,548,000. The auction was highlighted by the runaway success of Pablo Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust from the Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, which sold for a record $106,482,500, breaking the previous world record for any work of art sold at auction. The Evening Sale portion of the Brody Collection also achieved the highest total for a single-owner sale offered at Christies New York, surpassing the landmark sale of the Collection of Victor and Sally Ganz in 1997.

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Santa Barbara is famous for its summer fog. This morning the sun came up just as the fog was burning off..

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The artworks of the artist, Ariel Oren, refer to those of the greatest modern painters: Fernand Leger, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, while incorporating graphic influences and sophisticated two-dimensional and traditional animation.
His artwork may be referred to as post-modernistic homage. With a harmony of color and movement and emphasized contours, Oren takes us viewers back to the modern painting of the first half of the twentieth century.
He recreates and debates, breaks and constructs and presents a creation which combines the use of unique compositions, from his personal point of view. Thus a fascinating artwork is created as a jigsaw puzzle of modernistic influences; a puzzle which brings renewed observation that stimulates comparison and is situated between the modern and the contemporary.

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Pablo Picasso 1881- 1973

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso

Picasso was a Spanish painter draughtsman, and sculptor.
He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th century art.
Picasso is best known for co- founding (with Georges Braque) the Cubist movement.
Amoung his most famous works are “Demoiselles d’Avignon” and “Guernica”
Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescense, during the first decade of the 20th century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas.
Picasso’s creative genius manifested itself in numerous mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing and architecture.
His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortunes

link to wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

link to artcyclopedia

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/picasso_pablo.html

The blue period was the time he lived in Paris 1901- 1904
Sad paintings about poverty, death of friends and lost loves…

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link to the music http://new.music.yahoo.com/billie-holiday/

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Frida Kahlo aRt Paintings – Oil on Canvas & Oil on Metal

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It’s one of the finest collections of modern art anywhere in the world, but you won’t find it in New York or Paris.

Dozens of works by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock — together valued at roughly $3 billion — are locked in a basement in Tehran.

Only a handful of westerners have had an up-close look at the underground archives in Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art. ABC News was granted exclusive access inside the vault that holds a priceless collection Iranian authorities choose to keep locked away.

What was revealed was astonishing: a series of paintings by Picasso; a wall’s worth of pop art by Roy Lichtenstein; Warhol portraits of Jackie Onassis, Mick Jagger and Marilyn Monroe; a Diego Rivera self portrait; and a painting many consider to be the best Jackson Pollock outside of North America.

The collection was supposed to be a gift to the Iranian people. It was assembled by the Shah of Iran and his wife using public funds during the oil boom of the 1970s. Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art was inaugurated in 1977, designed to be one of the world’s landmark modern art institutions, with an international collection worthy of that ambition.

But just months later came the Islamic Revolution. The Shah was deposed, Ayatollah Khomeinei was became the country’s leader, and in the Revolutionary, anti-American climate the museum’s western art was banished to the basement.

Why aren’t the pieces shown to the public? The reasons are a mix of ideology and practicality.

The collection is huge and the museum small. Museum director Dr. Habibollah Sadeghi, himself a painter appointed by conservative President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, says there is no space to properly put the works on display.

Others question whether the museum could properly protect the valuable pieces from theft or damage were they displayed openly.

Conservative Muslim ideology — a powerful governing force in Iran — has played a similarly forceful role in keeping the pieces underground. Aside from the anti-Western overtones of Revolutionary Iran many of the pieces are considered too racy for a conservative Muslim society. When some of the collection briefly went on display in 2005 Andre Derain’s “Golden Age,” a 1905 painting of female nudes, was notably absent. Also hidden was the centerpiece of a Frances Bacon painting triptych. The center panel could be taken as homoerotic, showing two naked men asleep in bed.

There are plans to display the collection permanently once museum space is expanded, Sadeghi said. If those plans materialize — full-time public access to view the pieces — it would fulfill the dreams of art lovers worldwide. “In two or three years we can improve the museum and have a permanent exhibition,” said Sadeghi, adding that the museum is hoping to buy more Western works in the coming years to fill out the collection.

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