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Picasso Drawing in Exquisite Corpses at MoMA is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

How Surreal

The Daily Pic: Pablo Picasso's 80-year-old drawing looks like it's by a Brooklyn hipster

Blake Gopnik

Updated Jul. 13, 2017 2:09PM ET / Published Apr. 09, 2012 3:32PM ET 

© 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)

This Picasso drawing, called “Two Figures on a Beach,” is from 1933 – but looks like it could have come out of a Bushwick studio yesterday. (Like Friday’s Daily Pic by Bruce Nauman, it’s from the “Exquisite Corpses” show at MoMA.) The drawing has the doodle-ish, ball-point-pen surrealism that is everywhere lately. You want to resist Picasso, just because of all his success. And then he pulls out a new trick that wins you over. Even a genius as protean as Nauman can start to look one-note compared to old Pablo.

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