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Daily Pic: This Picasso drawing, called “Two Figures on a Beach,” is from 1933 – but looks like it could have been made yesterday. (Like Friday’s Daily Pic by Bruce Nauman, it’s from the “Exquisite Corpses” show at MoMA.) The drawing has the doodle-ish, ball-point-pen surrealism that is everywhere lately. You want to resist Picasso, just because of all his success. And then he pulls out a new trick that wins you over. Even a genius  as protean as Nauman can start to look one-note compared to old Pablo. (© 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)

Ahead of your time, Picasso.

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   Two Figures on a Beach Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) 1933. Ink on paper, 15 3/4 x 20” (40 x 50.8 cm). Purchase. ©...

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   I love Exquisite Corpses!

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    exquisite corpse is like improv “yes, and..” :) ..open-ended..

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    amen

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    Ahead of your time, Picasso.

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