Picasso Art On Web

Pablo Picasso would surely and unabashedly endorse the fact that the most comprehensive website about a single artist is one devoted to cataloguing his own art work, the Guardian reports. The Online Picasso Project is fit for an artist who famously boasted, "Give me a museum and I'll fill it," and declared, "My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso." The brainchild of Dr Enrique Mallen, a Spanish-born art historian educated at Cornell University who currently teaches at Texas's Sam Houston State University and has published extensively on Picasso, the website (http://picasso.tamu.edu/picasso/) encompasses a highly detailed timeline of Picasso's life as well as a chronological index of 13,147 individual art works from 633 collections. The site also contains additional information culled from the monumental volume of documentation and commentary on the artist's unparalleled artistic achievements, intellectual and personal life. But its real treasure trove is the attractive, sharp images which come complete with full captions. Helpfully, a separate site lists all the fraudulent works of art that were previously posted by error on the site itself. An invaluable asset to any scholar, student, or artist now and in the future, the Online Picasso Project beautifully and diligently organises material about one of the past century's most significant artists and thinkers, establishing with seemingly endless evidence why Picasso deserves such tireless attention. (For full source and article click the Headline). Irish Art