... , both provide information on nightlife in Barcelona. Bars: Xampanyerís (champagne bars) serving sparkling Catalan wine (cava) are a speciality of the city. Good places for cava include La Bodegueta del Xamp , Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 702, Xampanyeria Casablanca, Carrer Bonavista 6, and El Xampanyet, Carrer Montcada 22. The latter serves cider and tapas, as well as cava, in vibrant surroundings. Bar ... , is especially romantic, with its sweeping views of the city, while popular Berimbau, Passeig del Born 17, serves up good cocktails to a background of Brazilian rhythms. Casinos: ...

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... on color. Another explanation is that Picasso found blue appropriate for his subject because it is a color associated with melancholy. The painting of La Vie was painted in Barcelona. La Vie remains one of the key works in the prodigious out put of paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and pottery of his dominate visual ... artist of the twentieth century. La Vie is set in an artist studio, containing vague suggestions of cloistered architecture. A nude woman clings to the male figure, dressed in only a ... can say the figures in the paintings may feel as if they are trapped, and the ...

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... . His thoughts on this subject can be seen in many of his paintings. Two Paintings that interested me were called, "La Persistance de la Memoire" and the "Dream of Bee Flight." These two paintings have a very surreal and dream-like feel to them. "La Persistance de la Memoire", is set in a eerie type setting with time as a major theme. The second painting, "The Dream of Bee ... ...

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... the first sister, Dolores (Lola) 1887: Birth of the second sister, Concepcion (Conchita) 1888 89: Started painting tutored by his father. 1891: Translated La Coruña, where his father worked as an art teacher. The death of his sister Conchita. 1892: Enters school of Bella's Arts in ... La Coruña. His father taught him. 1895:He was an Advanced student of the Barcelona Academy of the fine arts from the age ... "Rose period" 1906: His sculpture " Head of a woman" ( Philadelphia) pink shadows became browner in his remarkable portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906, New York ) and " La toilette" (1...

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... influences in their own works. In 1893, Pablo had his first debut as an artist under his father's guidance, a teacher at the Da Guarda Art School in La Coruna. Pablo's Father was appointed to La Lonja Academy in Barcelona in 1895 and so Pablo moved. The following year saw Pablo becoming a pupil at the academy after passing his exams with top marks ... of 15, Picasso was admitted to advance drawing classes at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. By now, Picasso was beginning to be recognized and his painting Costumbre de Aragon won medals in Madris and Malaga. The following year ...

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