Happy Birthday Pablo Picasso
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Happy Birthday Evariste Galois, one of the greatest ever, dead at 20.
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Wait, should this be in the Weather thread?
That is bizarre on so many levels, Bernard.
Wait, should this be in the Weather thread?
Not to knock art but I don't get it, especially this stuff. I used to doodle better pics in my copy books in high school during boring classes. Just sayin' 
Thank you. I saw it at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in around 1970 and have never forgotten it. We each have our own old favorites which we regularly bring to our mind’s eye. Guernica isn’t a favorite of mine per se, just one whose overwhelming sensation has endured. Both my father and his SJ brother made certain I paid attention that day, I remember that.
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Somewhere in the great beyond, David Bowie is singing-
Well some people try to pick up girls
They get called a$$holes
This never happened to Pablo Picasso
—- David Bowie - Pablo Picasso - Reality Album
Well some people try to pick up girls
They get called a$$holes
This never happened to Pablo Picasso
—- David Bowie - Pablo Picasso - Reality Album
Not to knock art but I don't get it, especially this stuff. I used to doodle better pics in my copy books in high school during boring classes. Just sayin'
You probably drew pee-pees and wee-wees.
Hesitate to share because of overt political connotations, but it’s literally the only video I’ve been able to find of this sketch of Jon Lovitz as Picasso on SNL.
Picasso is basically the Notre Dame of modern art. So overrated. Especially each year since his death.
I read the Wiki bio of Galois due to your post and was amazed at what he did at so young of an age. Didn't Andrew Wiles use some of Galois' work on his Fermat proof?Happy Birthday Evariste Galois, one of the greatest ever, dead at 20.
Évariste Galois - Wikipedia
The talk in which Wiles announced his (incomplete) proof of FLT was entitled “Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves and Galois Representations.” I highly recommend Simon Singh’s book on the history of FLT, wonderful.
Grad students hit Galois Theory about midway through their first Abstract Algebra course. It’s not easy. I well remember waiting for a class to start at Maryland when someone comes in and asks how I am. “All of a sudden, I’m stupid.” Lol.
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a few of my favorites...
La Vie
Self-Portrait
1901
1903
Portrait of Dora Maar
1937
Le Rêve
1932
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
1907
Yeah, but he sort of was one. Too arrogant to write a will and fathered a few illegitimate children who were able to lay claim to some of his estate due to French inheritance laws. Not writing a will also cost his family some $30mm in legal fees.
People fighting over money they did nothing to earn aren't sympathetic figures, especially when the original reference is to nonsensical punk song lyrics that have only a tenuous connection to reality.
Oh for sure - and I didn’t see the post you were responding to. Just saying he was fairly unlikable in his old age and had ruined a lot of relationships.