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    Rock guitarists are turned into icons, legends, and heros for music lovers. They influence many kids and adults to pick up the guitar and spend countless hours trying to replicate their favorite player. Guitar solos can help compliment the song and make the listener keep coming back for that 30 to 60 seconds of destruction. This is what makes guitar players so important and essential in a rock band and many times they become the main figure. The best players have developed their own styles and sounds

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    The Old Guitarist is a painting by Pablo Picasso in 1903 that was made following the death of a friend he held close to him, Casagemas, which soon led to his Blue Period. His Blue Period consisted of paintings with sorrowful themes. The painting of The Old Guitarist shows what appears to be an older and frail looking man hunched over a guitar. During the time of creating The Old Guitarist, Picasso was also influenced by the Expressionism movement in which artists would appeal to the emotional sense

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    I chose to write about The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso, which is an artwork that was painted with oil on a panel that is displayed in the Chicago Art Institute. It’s quite large in size to scale and appearance in relation to the framework. It appears to be cramped in the frame because it is presented on a small canvas, but it actually measures in at 48 3/8 x 32 ½. This painting may have paved the way for Picasso some may say by possibly being a pivotal moment in his life. The Art Institute of

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    many pieces of art and many different names of the artist. Some of the artist I recognized and even more that I didn’t. One artwork that I found very extraordinary was The Guitarist by Pablo Picasso 1965. It’s a unique oil on canvas painting that has dimensions overall of 76 x 38 3/16 in. (1 m 93.04 cm x 96.98 cm). The Guitarist is located under European Art - 20th Century on the 2nd level. It is apart of “The Karl and Esther Hoblitzelle Collection and was gifted by the Hoblitzelle Foundation.” This

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    Poverty is one of the worst Circumstances that can happen to a human being because it leaves them stripped of everything, including their dignity. It's even worse when they're alone because they have no one to turn to. The painting “The guitarist” by Pablo Picasso shows a man sitting by himself in a corner holding a guitar. The painting creates a mood of sympathy because the man appears to be homeless. Sympathy is created in the painting by the color composition and the position of the subject matter

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    personal perspective. The Old Guitarist and Madame X are two creations that I believe are art, an opinion most people would agree with solely based off the success and fame of the creators, Pablo Picasso and John Singer Sargent, respectively. Being an artist is not always

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    This painting of a man playing a guitar is titled The Old Guitarist. It is an oil painting painted in late 1903 and early 1904 by Pablo Picasso on a canvas measuring 48⅜ inches by 32½ inches. It is displayed in the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois as part of the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection. The Old Guitarist shows a barefoot man hunching over and playing a guitar. His body is a lighter blue color while his clothing is a dark blue shade. His clothing has a hole on his left shoulder

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    Have you ever wondered what it is like to have large pincers for hands? Crayfish are large in size and have magnificent pincers. The pincers help them catch there food and help for protection. University of Wisconsin's article wonderful wacky water critters states “moves gliding sideways or moves backwards as if it were jet-propelled.” Its eyes help it hunt for food and see danger from anywhere around it. The crayfish has gills but you can not see them under its hard shell body. Hunting mostly at

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    human creative skill and imagination, it is our thoughts, emotions, and a personal journal that occasionally comes easier way to communicate what’s inside of the mind. One of Pablo Picasso’s most famous artworks and still known worldwide is The Old Guitarist. Picasso painted this piece of art in the Blue Period that ran from 1901-04. This specific year is important because the Blue Period of Picasso is when he started painting in the gloomy shades of blue and blueish-green inspired by Picasso’s own emotional

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    Influential American guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel opted to radically change direction in Caipi, a Brazilian jazz fusion record whose concept and compositions had been worked on over the last ten years. Accompanying the virtuoso guitarist, who also sings and plays bass, keyboards, and percussion, are international artists of undeniable quality. The lineup includes the saxophonist Mark Turner, multi-instrumentalist Pedro Martins, and intermittent appearances of violinist Frederika Krier, French horn

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