Today in Writing History July 5, 1889: Surrealist write and film maker, Jean Cocteau, was born. He was most famous for his films, particularly “Orpheus,” based on his screenplay, as wells as “Beauty and the Beast,” and “Blood of a Poet.” And he wrote the libretto for Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex.” However, he was also a great writer of fiction and poetry, too. His novel, “The White Book,” (1927) was a homoerotic, semi-biographical tale. He also wrote “Les Enfants Terribles” (1929). And he collaborated with Pablo Picasso and Erik Satie to produce the ballet, “Parade.”

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In Euskadi (Basque country), solidarity with Palestine is super high. Saw Palestinian flags and solidarity graffiti everywhere, in working class neighborhoods, as well as many of the tourist hot spots. Sometimes the majority of windows in a single apartment complex displayed Palestinian flags.

This should come as no surprise in light of the history of colonialism and oppression of the Basque people by the Spanish state, in general. And, in particular, the mass slaughter of Basque civilians in Guernika on April 26, 1937 by Hitler's Condor Legion, in support of Spanish Fascist leader Francisco Franco.

This can be seen in the accompanying mural, which includes the portion of Picasso's famous Guernica painting depicting a grieving woman holding her dead child, reminiscent of so many of the horrifying images we are seeing coming out of Israel's genocide in Gaza.

“There are more than 200 wildfires in Canada at this moment, 83 of which are not protected and are out of control,” Marcel says in front of the Picasso work."

Climate Activists Splash Paint on a Picasso in Montreal
https://hyperallergic.com/1021857/climate-activists-splash-paint-on-a-picasso-in-montreal/

This man received his cloud bill after using Kubernetes for the first time.
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"Avete fatto voi questo orrore, maestro?" chiese l' ufficiale nazista. "No l'avete fatto voi", rispose Picasso.

#Picasso​s #Friedenstaube in #Eckernförde. Genauen Ort verrate ich nicht. Sonst wird die Tür vom Stromkasten noch wie bei einem Banksy geklaut. Vielleicht ist es ja auch nur ein Faksimile.

Single-Board Z80 Computer Draws Inspiration From Picasso - Picasso and the Z80 microprocessor are not two things we often think about at the ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/01/single-board-z80-computer-draws-inspiration-from-picasso/ #picasso #rc2014 #news #z80

Today in labor history April 28, 1896: Tristan Tzara was born. He was a Romanian-French poet, journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, film director. He co-founded the anti-establishment Dada movement. During Hitler’s rise to power, he participated in the anti-fascist movement and the French Communist Party. In 1934, Tzara organized a mock trial of Salvador Dalí because of his fawning over Hitler and Franco. The surrealists Andre Breton, Paul Éluard and René Crevel helped run the trial. In the 1940s, Tzara lived in Marseilles with a large group of anti-fascist artists and writers, under the protection of American diplomat Varian Fry. These included Victor Serge, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Andre Breton and Max Ernst. Later he joined the French Resistance, writing propaganda and running their pirate radio station. After the Liberation of Paris, he wrote for L'Éternelle Revue, a communist newspaper edited by Jean-Paul Sartre. Other contributors to the newspaper included Louis Aragon, Éluard, Jacques Prévert and Pablo Picasso. Varian Fry, and his communal home for radicals in hiding, was portrayed in the historical drama series “Transatlantic.”

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Today in Labor History April 26, 1937: The Nazis and Italian fascists bombed Guernica, a town in the Basque region of Spain, at the request of Spanish fascist leader, Francisco Franco. Later that year, Picasso painted his famous painting, Guernica, in protest of the atrocity. This was during the Spanish Civil War. The Republicans, a coalition of anarchist, socialist and communist partisans, were fighting the Nationalists, led by Franco. They bombed Guernica for two hours, killing between 1,000 and 3,000 civilians, or 20-60% of the population.

A new piece of art has arrived #picasso

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“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ”
― Pablo Picasso
#art #quote #painting #arts #finearts #picasso
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"Not many people think of themselves as half-beasts trapped in human guise, but there’s an echo of the animal in everyone. A beast we each have to struggle with, large or small, trapped and subdued by a maze of modern life," writes writer, illustrator and researcher Natalie Lawrence in her new book, "Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meanings." Here's an extract, reproduced in LitHub, where she discusses bullfights, Picasso, and the story of the Minotaur.

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#Books @bookstodon #Mythology #Philosophy #Picasso #Art

#Picasso zahlte sogar kleine Beträge lieber per Scheck als in bar. Der Grund: wegen der Unterschrift des berühmten Zeitgenossen wurden diese Schecks häufig nicht eingelöst sondern behalten.

#Kunst

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Wir haben die Kirche im Dorf gelassen bei Karneval und Frohsinn. Das darf sein, vielleicht sogar gerade in diesen Zeiten. Zwei Veranstaltungen habe ich begleitet und machte auch mich froh. Demnächst mehr im Blatt. #SchönesGegenDoofes #wandelsinn #FediKirche #gemeinsam geht's besser... #frieden #picasso #kunstundkultur #gesellschaft #fediverse #mastodon

#Superb_Owl_Sunday hall of fame legend: #Picasso ‘s beloved pet rescue #owl , Ubu, who inspired the famous artist to create a whole series of owl drawings, paintings, and ceramics.
(See ALTS for more info!)
#Superb_Owl #BirdsInArt

Today’s #art highlight: Paris belle epoque with Catalan artists in the “Montmartre Montparnasse” exhibition in Picasso museum, #Barcelona, with some familiar #Picasso portraits such as enigmatic “Margot waiting”

Aujourd'hui, aux Archives municipales de Lyon, j'ai croisé Picasso
#archives #lyon #picasso

Excellent Quino #Quino #argentina #guernica #picasso @altbot