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Picasso's Genius Revealed: He Used Common House Paint
livescience ^ | 08 February 2013 Time: 10:43 AM ET | Clara Moskowitz

Posted on 02/09/2013 9:26:41 AM PST by BenLurkin

Art scholars had long suspected Picasso was one of the first master artists to employ house paint, rather than traditional artists' paint, to achieve a glossy style that hid brush marks. There was no absolute confirmation of this, however, until now.

Physicists at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill., trained their hard X-ray nanoprobe at Picasso's painting "The Red Armchair," completed in 1931, which they borrowed from the Art Institute of Chicago. The nanoprobe instrument can "see" details down to the level of individual pigment particles, revealing the arrangement of particular chemical elements

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: picasso
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1 posted on 02/09/2013 9:26:48 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

The question remais did he use it because that is what he had or for other reasons.


2 posted on 02/09/2013 9:30:52 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t like his paintings!!!


3 posted on 02/09/2013 9:33:36 AM PST by tallyhoe
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To: riverrunner
Necessity is the mother of invention!
4 posted on 02/09/2013 9:37:03 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

I am not a Picasso fan.


5 posted on 02/09/2013 9:38:19 AM PST by buffaloguy
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6 posted on 02/09/2013 9:38:19 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: tallyhoe

“I don’t like his paintings!!!

Me neither. When I was in Europe, I preferred Dali’s, especially up close.


7 posted on 02/09/2013 9:40:26 AM PST by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: BenLurkin

One of the 20th Century’s grand architects of moral anarchy.


8 posted on 02/09/2013 9:41:34 AM PST by jobim (.)
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To: buffaloguy

I do like cubism.


9 posted on 02/09/2013 9:59:29 AM PST by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: BenLurkin

My nine year old granddaughter brings a lot of her art work home from school that look like Picasso ‘masterpieces’. I hope she outgrows it.


10 posted on 02/09/2013 10:00:00 AM PST by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: max americana

I like his paintings I just can’t afford them. Sooooooo I just take out my house paint, canvas board and brush and copy the ones I like then frame them and hang them. I love it when people walk in and say “Is that a Picasso?” :-)


11 posted on 02/09/2013 10:01:14 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: BenLurkin

I think Picasso painted the porch of my first house. It was built about in the 1930s. In fact, I think he built the porch itself. It was sort of crooked in that style of his.


12 posted on 02/09/2013 10:04:10 AM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: BenLurkin
Beginning in the 1930’s many artists began experimenting with synthetic paint, including household paint. When Jackson Pollock employed his “drip” technique in the 1950’s he used a mixed media of traditional oil paint, house paint and sometimes an acrylic. Since the 1970’s a number of his most valuable works have required extensive restoration because much of the paints he used deteriorate in a short time.
13 posted on 02/09/2013 10:34:47 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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14 posted on 02/09/2013 10:38:19 AM PST by RedMDer (Support Free Republic)
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To: BenLurkin

He was a true jeenyus.


15 posted on 02/09/2013 10:46:09 AM PST by Jeff Winston
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Oddly enough, Leonardo had the same problems!


16 posted on 02/09/2013 11:11:54 AM PST by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: max americana

I don’t mind Picasso, but I love Dali!


17 posted on 02/09/2013 11:12:48 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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We were on a Euro trip 4 years ago, when in Spain, we went to his home. It’s close to the beach and they served us wine, bread and cheese while everyone walked on the estate.


18 posted on 02/09/2013 11:26:20 AM PST by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: BenLurkin

Picasso was a fraud, and he admitted it with great bitterness.


19 posted on 02/09/2013 11:38:17 AM PST by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: ottbmare

Picasso’s work spans an incredible range of styles and complex construction. look up the images he produced as a teenager and in his twenties, start from there and watch a progression of unparalleled talent, most of us who are poor in aptitude wish we could possess a mere fraction of his vision, even though many of his works were uneven and even monstrous, some are incredible inventions of extraordinary insight and beauty.

I believe you will find more than a handful of examples you will enjoy.

Remember its only art.

“Art is long, life is short.”


20 posted on 02/09/2013 12:09:48 PM PST by notted
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