Andrew Lloyd Webber donates a Picasso »

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The latest trend is charity, big charity. Andrew Lloyd Webber is donating a Picasso from the Blue Period to raise money for programs that benefit young performers. The sale will take place in November

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dolla
July 2, 2006, 9:42 a.m.
"... in Szukalski's terms 'Pick ******.' Picasso, who sat idly by during the World War, abusing women while many of his friends suffered and died, is the same man who spent the last two thirds of his life doodling fawns, doces and peace signs for the commodity art machine. Picasso, who mechanically palmed off shopworn elements from the prop closet of classical Greek pedimental design to the public too numb to notice-that person is not the Picasso of the Twentieth Century."
From the foreword of the book Struggle: The Art of Szukalski
Oddly enough, the foreward was written by Leonardo and George DiCaprio.
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dolla
July 2, 2006, 9:45 a.m.
doces is supposed to be DOVES. Sorry for the typing error