Tag: Marie Laurencin

#AtoZChallenge: Apollinaire, Guillaume (Picasso)

Apollinaire, the renowned French poet and playwright, was not really French since he was born in Rome. However, he was not really Italian either. Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki was of Polish descent. Born in 1880, he was less than a year older than Picasso. When he moved to France as a teenager, young Kostrowicki changed his…

La bande à Picasso (Picasso’s Gang)

  I finished watching the French language film La bande à Picasso (with English subtitles) on Amazon today. I highly recommend this cute and entertaining film if you are interested in Picasso’s life when he first lived in Paris in the early 1900’s. The film was made in 2012 and was directed by Fernando Colomo of Spain.   …