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6 Model Five fired men at the moon (6)
8 Many canoes get upset (6)
9 Olivia Newton-John sang about its banks (4)
10 Scorn (8)
11 Vermin catcher (6)
13 Have the helm (5)
15 Nought (3)
17 Leash (5)
18 Twelve --- High (1949 Gregory Peck film) (6)
20 Short of a Beatles album? (8)
22 Movable barrier (4)
23 Bring in from abroad (6)
24 Las Vegas’ state (6)
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1 Greek spirit (4)
2 If it ever existed, it missed the boat in Noah’s time (7)
3 Attractive (5)
4 Statue support (8)
5 Crack (4)
7 Disturbed that war goes from side to side (7)
12 Stirrer (8)
14 Agitated (7)
16 Slackens (7)
19 Euro fractions (5)
21 Trees badly affected by fungal attack (4)
22 Donated (4)
All solutions are on page 16 a) Poetry b) Theatrical sets c) Pottery d) Embroidery a) Bilbao b) Madrid c) New York d) Paris a) Malaga b) Barcelona c) Paris d) The French Riviera a) Joan Miro b) Modigliani c) Diego Velasquez d) Juan Gris
4- He was a very busy artist indeed and left behind somewhere in the region of 20,000 works in one form or the other. Best known as a painter, he was creative in other ways. What discipline isn’t he famous for?
6- If there is one painting associated with the Spanish Civil War, it’s Guernica. Where was it first exhibited?
7- Where did Picasso spend most of his life?
5- Over the space of five months, Picasso created a suite of 58 works called Las Meninas, 44 of which (including this one below) were inspired by a painting by which artist?
8- He named his daughter Paloma after a) the universal symbol for peace b) the pigeons flying around Malaga c) the song, Paloma Blanca d) the ballet dancer Anna Pavlova but had – famously
– misheard her name
9- Robert Capa’s iconic 1948 photo of the Spanish artist and his lover (left) was taken on: a) the Costa Brava b) the Costa del Sol c) the Costa Blanca d) the French Riviera
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- His name and his art are known around the world. But could you pick the young artist out from a lineup (above)?
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10 - A - Pablo Picasso, photographed in 1908. The others are: Antoni Gaudi (b); George Bernard Shaw (c); and, another Spanish artist being commemorated this year, Joaquin Sorolla (c) who died 100 years ago this August.
9 - D - The French Riviera. It shows Picasso (65) and the artist François Gilot (25). Although they never married (Picasso was already married to the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova), they met in 1943, had two children, and remained together for almost a decade.
8 - B - The pigeons in Plaza de la Merced, Malaga, that he could see from the window of his family home obviously had a profound impression on the young Picasso.
7 - C - Paris. Picasso’s family left Malaga when he was 10 (for A Coruña). He lived in Barcelona for close to nine years (1885-1904) but began spending an increasing amount of time in Paris, and left Spain for good in 1904, remaining in Paris for 63 years, before moving to the French Riviera.
6 - D - Picasso was living in Paris when he painted Guernica in 1937. It was first shown at the International Exposition in Paris the same year, before being sent to MoMA in New York, where it stayed until finally coming to Spain after Franco’s death. It is now at the Reina Sofia in Madrid.
5 - C - Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, painted way back in 1656. The masterpiece by the Sevilla-born Velazquez caught the eye of the young Picasso during one of his many trips to the Prado Museum while studying art in Madrid, and you can still see it there today. Picasso’s -inter pretations are part of the permanent collection at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona.
4 - D - Embroidery.
3 - B - El Picador, painted by Picasso in 1889 when he was eight years old, and a painting he kept all his life. The others are: a) Portrait of Gertrude Stein, also by Picasso but done 16 years later; c) Blue Coat by Paul Klee (aged 69); d) Last Supper by Emil Nolde (aged 42).
2 - A - Picasso was born in Malaga. His family lived in Plaza de la Merced for the first 10 years of his life, and the family home is now a museum, the Museo Casa Natal de Picasso [https:// museocasanatalpicasso.malaga.eu/].
1 - C - Picasso died on April 8, 1973, aged 91. This is the 50th anniversary of his death.
