Talk:Pablo Picasso

Biggest ever monumental statue of Pablo is not even in the article

Sorry to change this but, please, correct the name of Pablo Ruíz Picasso. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.169.174.126 (talk) 14:59, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

You have missed to include the biggest statue ever Pablo Picasso constructed in Kristinehamn in Sweden, it's mnetioned on the Swedish version of this page while on the English is only the much smaller statue from Halmstad mentioned. Take a look at the statue here http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Kristinehamn_Picasso_statue_06.jpg and http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.225.149.1 (talk) 21:26, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Why Picasso and not Ruiz?

If the man's name was Ruiz y Picasso, why do we call the painter Picasso and not Ruiz (his father's family name)? In Spanish, anybody with his name would be called Señor Ruiz, not Señor Picasso (much as Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega are called Castro and Ortega, not Ruiz or Saavedra, respectively). I wonder what Picasso's cohorts DID call him?? SBHarris 04:49, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

My recollection is of having read that as a young man he chose to disassociate himself from his father by jettisoning Ruiz and using Picasso. Now we need a source.... JNW (talk) 20:42, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

A somewhat less dramatic explanation: [1]. JNW (talk) 20:45, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Picasso, signed his own name as Picasso, not Ruiz. AJseagull1 (talk) 21:36, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Pablo Ruiz Picasso's impact upon China’s most famous contemporary artist Zhang Daqian

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Impact upon China’s most famous contemporary artist Zhang Daqian

• Landscape painted by Zhang Daqian (1899 – 1983), China’s most famous contemporary artist who met with Pablo Ruiz Picasso in 1956 and adopted his Western techniques and concepts into Chinese traditional landscape ink and wash paintings.
  Landscape painted by Zhang Daqian (1899 – 1983), China’s most famous contemporary artist who met with Pablo Ruiz Picasso in 1956 and adopted his Western techniques and concepts into Chinese traditional landscape ink and wash paintings.

Orionandhsu (talk) 06:22, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

 Not done: Picasso has inspired a great number of artists. It is not clear why this particular case should be especially notable and merit inclusion in the article. Favonian (talk) 11:23, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

I agree that there's no compelling reason to mention this particular artist. I don't know that he is the most famous Chinese artist, and since he died in '83 I wouldn't call him contemporary. But in any case, we'd need some scholarship to back this up in order to include it. freshacconci talktalk 11:36, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

It’s indeed very difficult to measure the true contribution or the fame of an artist to the world. If we try to judge it by just the selling price of his (her) works of art, then it would become too much realistic! But still, the recent “Landscape Painting” which adopted Pablo Ruiz Picasso’s Western techniques and concepts and was painted by Zhang Daqian has been reaching to a new selling record of 15 Million US dollars at the auction house of Beijing in May, 2010. Therefore if we try to record the event of these two “Painting Masters”, apart from western and eastern world, with different painting techniques and concepts, met each other in 1956, exchanged their mutual painting ideas and experiences, then created another era of new style for the people in the world to appreciate. Although we didn’t know what content these two painting masters actually discussed with each other, but the changes of style were indeed inspired and happened, and made contributions to the world. So why don’t we just record the “Event” truly happened in their respective “Biographies”. Orionandhsu (talk) 13:45, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

early life

believe he moved to La Coruña , not A Coruna Kathy annie laurie (talk) 00:39, 10 November 2010 (UTC) kathy annie laurie

271 Picasso works were just discovered.

I created a new article called Pierre Le Guennec about 271 Picasso works that were just discovered. Perhaps that article's name will eventually need to be changed, but "Pierre Le Guennec" is what people will use as a search term, so that's what I'm starting it as. Sclt1127 (talk) 17:38, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Certainly, something about that recent "find" needs to be mentioned in this article as well ... no? I am surprised that there is no mention of it whatsoever on this article page. Thanks. (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 02:33, 1 December 2010 (UTC))

Monument

Public? If so - where in public is it? or is it private...Modernist (talk) 12:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)