Roving art show brings Picasso to Cubans [Are sure she is a security guard for a Picasso?]

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A security guard stands next to Pablo Picasso's, "Faunne et Flore d' Antibes," on exhibit at the Provincial Museum in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Tuesday Sept. 27, 2011. 

The Picasso is from a 120-piece collection donated by U.S. philanthropist Gilbert Brownstone and include works from Joan Miro, Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. The pieces recently went on display in the western city of Pinar del Rio, known more for tobacco farms than art museums. The tour ends this week and the art returns to its permanent home in Havana. (AP Photo/ Franklin Reyes) (Franklin Reyes)

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(AP)  PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba — A traveling exhibition of art donated by a U.S. philanthropist is giving Cubans outside the capital a rare chance to see works from masters such as Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol that would normally hang in world-class galleries instead of sleepy provincial cities.

Selections from the 120-piece collection have already toured Camaguey and Holguin in the island's far-flung east and recently went on display in the western city of Pinar del Rio, known more for tobacco farms than art museums.

More than a dozen works by Joan Miro, Marcel Duchamp, Camille Pissarro, Georges Rouault, Roy Lichtenstein and others went up in the glassed lobby of a local TV station, watched over by just a few police and guards and prompting curious passers-by to pop in to see what all the fuss was about.

The showcase of the exhibit was a few blocks up the street at the Provincial Museum: 12 lithographs created by Picasso in a 1959 series called "Faunes et Flore d'Antibes," depicting grinning, horned satyrs with flowers and playing flutes.

Roving art show brings Picasso to Cubans [Are sure she is a security guard for a Picasso?]

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By Timothy R. Smith and and Martin Weil

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Edgar Mueller, maestro de la pintura urbana

Hard believe that these are drawn on a FLAT sidewalk surface

Street Artist's.....newest Edgar Mueller Super Artist Great Crevase Edgar Mueller. Hard work: Together with up to five assistants, Mueller painted all day long from sunrise to sunset. The picture appeared on the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire , Ireland , as part of the town's Festival of World Cultures. He spent five days, working 12 hours a day, to create the 250 square metre image of the crevasse, which, viewed from the correct angle, appears to be 3D. He then persuaded passers-by to complete the illusion by pretending the gaping hole was real. 'I wanted to play with positives and negatives to encourage people to think twice about everything they see,' he said. 'It was a very scary scene, but when people saw it they had great fun playing on it and pretending to fall into the earth. 'I like to think that later, when they returned home, they might reflect more on what a frightening scenario it was and say, "Wow, that was actually pretty scary." Mueller, who has previously painted a giant waterfall in Canada , said he was inspired by the British 'Pavement Picasso' Julian Beever, whose dramatic but more gentle 3D street images have featured in the Daily Mail. This guy is amazing no matter how you look at it!

Edgar Mueller, maestro de la pintura urbana