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!Yo Picasso!(Pablo Picasso)(El Greco)
Artforum International, May, 2001 by BROWN, JONATHAN; El Greco
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"CUBISM IS SPANISH IN ORIGIN, and it was I who invented Cubism. We should look for Spanish influence in Cezanne.... Observe El Greco's influence on him. A Venetian painter but he is Cubist in construction." Pablo Picasso must have been in an exceptionally grandiose and perverse frame of mind when he uttered these words. His claim to be the sole inventor of Cubism is certainly exaggerated, but what are we to make of his claim on El Greco as aesthetic forebear?
In 1960, when Picasso reportedly made this statement, he was hardly a recent convert to the cult of El Greco. As ...
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