Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Examine Black Pitcher and the Death’s Head, a magnificent still life created on the heels of World War II in 1946 by the renowned giant of Modernism, Pablo Picasso. Hear how Picasso’s defiance—of Nazism, of Fascism, of the horrors of war and genocide—can be found in the objects depicted and how this work alludes to one of Picasso’s single-most defiant works of art.

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