How does Gertrude Stein take advantage of the techniques of other arts and artists in her two portraits of Pablo Picasso?

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Essay from the year 2019 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: B, Education University of Hong Kong, course: LIT3052 Literature in Context II:1914 - 2000, language: English, abstract: Two of the most prominent poems Gertrude Stein has ever written on the subject of the famous Spanish painter Pablo Picasso were her "Picasso" (1909), written three years after Picasso painted a portrait of her in 1906, when she admired Picasso of his art, and "If I Told Him: a Completed Portrait of Picasso" (1923), when she started to doubt the worth of her literary works. Despite the stark difference of the poems background, both poems use literary techniques that resembles different forms of arts, including that of painting, film, dance and music.

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