In-class comparison essay on Th:
compare the technology-changing Steve Jobs to the art-changing Pablo Picasso. Bring your notes on Picasso. I will supply the note on Jobs and Apple.
The dove of peace and Picasso:
Picasso's last daughter is named Paloma. That means "dove," an animal which was an important image for the artist. "Picasso donated the dove of peace sketch to the Soviet backed World Peace Congress of 1949. It was rather sad that the Stalinist ideology of Communism betrayed the aspirations of peace loving Socialists like Picasso," says biographyonline.com.
Says Wikipedia:
"Picasso's lithograph, La Colombe (The Dove), a traditional, realistic picture of a pigeon, was chosen as the emblem for the World Peace Congress in Paris in April 1949. The dove became a symbol for the peace movement and the ideals of the Communist Party and was used in Communist demonstrations of the period. At the 1950 World Peace Congress in Sheffield, Picasso said that his father had taught him to paint doves, concluding, "I stand for life against death; I stand for peace against war."[13][14]"
As Fine Arts Survey knows from the John Richardson bio, Picasso learned from his dad how to draw pigeons.
Close enough, right?
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