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Topic Reading-Vol.2207-4/27/2018

英語で世界を知ろう！Topic Reading

2018/04/27 Topic Reading-Vol.2207-4/27/2018

Dear MEL Topic Readers,

Why is Picasso so popular in Asia?

Exhibitions of Picasso’s works in Japan and South Korea attracted 300,000 visitors respectively. Over 200,000 tourists from South Korea, Japan, China and other Asian countries visited Museu Picasso in Barcelona, Spain a year. His artworks have been sold to many Asian buyers recently at staggering prices. It seems that Picasso is perceived the master or art in Asia.

Pablo Picasso was born in Spain 1881, but spent most of his adult life in France and died there in 1973. He is known not only as a painter, sculptor, or printmaker, but also as a poet and playwright, and regarded as one of the 20^th century’s most influential artists. He lead the Cubist movement, a new style of modern art in which an object or person is shown as a set of geometric shapes, and as if seen from many different angles at the same time. It brought European paintings and sculpture forward toward 20^th century modern art. The impact of Cubism was so far reaching that many prominent Asian artists were influenced, including Taro Okamoto of Japan. But Picasso seemed to have been under certain Asian influences at some point as similarities are found between Chinese landscape paintings and Cubism.

Is that the reason why the Spanish artist’s works have been drawing so many Asian visitors to the museums and buyers to premier auction houses?

Enjoy reading and learning why Picasso is so special to Asian people.

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180321-why-is-picasso-so-popular-in-asia

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