Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter. Commonly known simply as Picasso, he is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
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1981 As a reference within a reference, Joe Mathieu spoofed Norman Rockwell's "Triple Self Portrait" with Grover taking the place of the famed painter. And taking the place of the Picasso self-portrait Rockwell included on the easel, is Bert in place of Picasso. | |
1983 His painting, "Girl Before a Mirror", was spoofed in Miss Piggy's Art Masterpiece Calendar, as "Pig Before a Mirror". The same image was subsequently used in the 1993 Muppet Trading Cards set, and in the Miss Piggy's Art Treasures collection of Muppet postcards. The reverse side of the postcard provides the following "information:" | |
1984 Mokey paints a very Picasso-like painting of Red Fraggle in the book Best Friends. | |
1984 Kermit has trouble finding the words to describe how he feels about Piggy's latest investment in the July 11, 1984 edition of The Muppets comic strip: an original Pigcasso featuring a pig's rear end surrounded by a sea of snouts. | |
1985 Baby Fozzie, Baby Rowlf, Baby Gonzo, Baby Scooter, and Baby Kermit morph into Picasso-style paintings in the Muppet Babies episode "The Muppet Museum of Art". The transformation is inspired by the Picasso painting Weeping Woman with Handkerchief. | |
1985 His 1918 Still Life is also featured in "Art Is in Your Heart" when Baby Animal crawls by. | |
1988 In Muppet Babies: Where's Animal?, Baby Animal has a hobby horse named Guernica, featuring the "horse-in-agony head" from the eponymous painting.[1] | |
1989 Pablo Paint Palette from Here Is Your Life. (First: Episode 2572) | |
1993 In Elmo's version of "Right in the Middle of My Face", Girl Before a Mirror is shown during the "nose" verse. | |
1995 Bust of a Woman With a Hat is slowly revealed to the audience in a black and white version, before eventually gaining its colors. (First: Episode 3320) | |
1995 Portrait of Marie-Thรฉrรจse is altered with a child sitting on her lap. (First: Episode 3318) | |
1996 Three Musicians is used, where the instrumentalists learn to cooperate to play music. (First: Episode 3460) | |
1996 Another Sesame Street cartoon features two characters with Picasso-esque designs commenting on a painting of a normal, human girl. (First: Episode 3442) | |
1997 In Episode 3655 of Sesame Street, Big Bird and Baby Bear visit the Museum of Modern Art, and look at one of Picasso's sculptures "Baboon and Young". | |
2001 Bert, Ernie, and Elmo in Three Musicians from Museum of Monster Art. | |
2002 In the Farscape episode "Crichton Kicks," John Crichton refers to 1812 as "Picasso" when the DRD finishes making an open airlock appear to be sealed. | |
2005 The painter is parodied with the Plaza Sรฉsamo character Pablo Bigotasso, and the Sesame Street "Here Is Your Life" sketch used his name as the inspiration for Pablo Paint Palette. | |
2005 In an edition of "The Letter of the Day Games," Cookie Monster searches for P-word items. One such item is Picasso's Harlequin wool tapestry. (First: Episode 4099) | |
2015 A spoof of Girl Before a Mirror featuring Kermit the Forg is featured in the Museum of Modern Cookie in The Cookie Thief. It is said to be painted by Pablo PiCookie. | |
2015 Scooter refers to Kermit the Frog as "Picasso" at Color Me Mine in The Muppets episode, "The Ex-Factor." | |
2021 In the Muppet Babies episode "Summer's Disaster-Piece," Thog appears in a version of Picasso's The Old Guitarist. | |
2021 "The Old Guitarist" on Disney Junior Music: Ready for Preschool's "At the Art Museum". | |
unknown In a Sesame Street sketch, Ernie makes a picture of Bert with several eyebrows, done in a Picasso style. |
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- โ Matt Damsker, "Muppet Magnetism: Madcap characters to perform live", The Hartford Courant, 12 March 1987, Calendar section page 3.