Picasso Archives - PlayJunkie PlayJunkie Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:21:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Picasso Painting Discovered by a Junk Dealer 60 Years Ago Believed to be an Original https://playjunkie.com/picasso-painting-discovered-by-a-junk-dealer-60-years-ago-believed-to-be-an-original/ Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:38:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=39781 Back in 1962, a junk dealer named Luigi Lo Rosso found a painting while cleaning out the basement of a villa on Italy’s island of Capri. More than 60 years later, the painting is believed to be an original by famous Cubist artist Pablo Picasso. Upon discovering the painting, Lo Rosso took it to his […]

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Back in 1962, a junk dealer named Luigi Lo Rosso found a painting while cleaning out the basement of a villa on Italy’s island of Capri. More than 60 years later, the painting is believed to be an original by famous Cubist artist Pablo Picasso.

Upon discovering the painting, Lo Rosso took it to his Pompeii home, placed it in a cheap frame, and hung it on a wall. His wife supposedly wasn’t thrilled about it, finding it “horrible,” but his son Andrea became quite intrigued by it decades later.

Andrea was reading an encyclopedia of art history when he noticed that the painting on the wall of his family home not only featured “Picasso” signature on the upper left corner but also looked quite similar to Picasso’s famous works. Lo Rosso family then decided to contact the Arcadia Foundation, an art authentication and appraisal institution, to see if their Picasso artwork was real.

Arcadia Foundation carried out an extensive examination, one that took several years, and ended up determining that the painting in the possession of the Lo Rosso family is indeed a genuine Picasso painting. Their conclusion is that it features Picasso’s muse, Dora Maar, and could be worth €6 million ($6.6 million).

However, the process is not entirely complete. The Picasso Foundation in Málaga, Spain, has the ultimate word on authentication of Pablo Picasso pieces and so far has refused to examine Lo Rosso’s artwork.

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Artist Turns Picasso’s Iconic Paintings Into 3D Art https://playjunkie.com/artist-turns-picassos-iconic-paintings-into-3d-art/ Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:10:41 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=11625 Since 2017, CGI and 3D artist Omar Aqil has been turning Picasso’s most famous paintings into 3D illustrations that look like photos of real objects. The three-part series called “Mimic” was created after studying Picasso’s work for years. Aqil’s style breathes new life into his version of Picasso’s paintings by using modern colors and textures. […]

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Since 2017, CGI and 3D artist Omar Aqil has been turning Picasso’s most famous paintings into 3D illustrations that look like photos of real objects.

The three-part series called “Mimic” was created after studying Picasso’s work for years. Aqil’s style breathes new life into his version of Picasso’s paintings by using modern colors and textures. Some feature everyday objects such as hair dryer, flower vase and different shapes of bottles.

“Picasso is my all-time favorite artist,” Aqil told Insider. “His work and style have always inspired me.” He said that keeping things “modern yet classic” was a vital part of interpreting Picasso’s work. He also wanted to preserve Picasso’s signature abstract style when illustrating faces.

“[Picasso] used the most unusual shapes with some odd perspective to enrich his desired expressions,” Aqil explained. “He just had an amazing sense of how to decode them.”

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ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Picasso Archives - PlayJunkie PlayJunkie Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:21:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Picasso Painting Discovered by a Junk Dealer 60 Years Ago Believed to be an Original https://playjunkie.com/picasso-painting-discovered-by-a-junk-dealer-60-years-ago-believed-to-be-an-original/ Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:38:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=39781 Back in 1962, a junk dealer named Luigi Lo Rosso found a painting while cleaning out the basement of a villa on Italy’s island of Capri. More than 60 years later, the painting is believed to be an original by famous Cubist artist Pablo Picasso. Upon discovering the painting, Lo Rosso took it to his […]

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Back in 1962, a junk dealer named Luigi Lo Rosso found a painting while cleaning out the basement of a villa on Italy’s island of Capri. More than 60 years later, the painting is believed to be an original by famous Cubist artist Pablo Picasso.

Upon discovering the painting, Lo Rosso took it to his Pompeii home, placed it in a cheap frame, and hung it on a wall. His wife supposedly wasn’t thrilled about it, finding it “horrible,” but his son Andrea became quite intrigued by it decades later.

Andrea was reading an encyclopedia of art history when he noticed that the painting on the wall of his family home not only featured “Picasso” signature on the upper left corner but also looked quite similar to Picasso’s famous works. Lo Rosso family then decided to contact the Arcadia Foundation, an art authentication and appraisal institution, to see if their Picasso artwork was real.

Arcadia Foundation carried out an extensive examination, one that took several years, and ended up determining that the painting in the possession of the Lo Rosso family is indeed a genuine Picasso painting. Their conclusion is that it features Picasso’s muse, Dora Maar, and could be worth €6 million ($6.6 million).

However, the process is not entirely complete. The Picasso Foundation in Málaga, Spain, has the ultimate word on authentication of Pablo Picasso pieces and so far has refused to examine Lo Rosso’s artwork.

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Artist Turns Picasso’s Iconic Paintings Into 3D Art https://playjunkie.com/artist-turns-picassos-iconic-paintings-into-3d-art/ Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:10:41 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=11625 Since 2017, CGI and 3D artist Omar Aqil has been turning Picasso’s most famous paintings into 3D illustrations that look like photos of real objects. The three-part series called “Mimic” was created after studying Picasso’s work for years. Aqil’s style breathes new life into his version of Picasso’s paintings by using modern colors and textures. […]

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Since 2017, CGI and 3D artist Omar Aqil has been turning Picasso’s most famous paintings into 3D illustrations that look like photos of real objects.

The three-part series called “Mimic” was created after studying Picasso’s work for years. Aqil’s style breathes new life into his version of Picasso’s paintings by using modern colors and textures. Some feature everyday objects such as hair dryer, flower vase and different shapes of bottles.

“Picasso is my all-time favorite artist,” Aqil told Insider. “His work and style have always inspired me.” He said that keeping things “modern yet classic” was a vital part of interpreting Picasso’s work. He also wanted to preserve Picasso’s signature abstract style when illustrating faces.

“[Picasso] used the most unusual shapes with some odd perspective to enrich his desired expressions,” Aqil explained. “He just had an amazing sense of how to decode them.”

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