Yellow Pages

The company Swissguide AG provides additional business information on all Swiss companies.
. In Switzerland the company Swisscom Directories AG produces and distributes directories in several forms including internet-based yellow pages in four languages, including English.
. In Sweden it's called Gula Sidorna, distributed by Eniro AB. (For a comprehensive catalogue of his works visit the On-Line Picasso Project). In Spain it's called Páginas Amarillas, distributed by Telefónica Publicidad e Información, S.A. On May 4, 2004 Picasso's painting Garçon à la pipe was sold for USD $104 million at Sotheby's, thus establishing a new price record (see also List of most expensive paintings).

In December 2005 the Norwegian Supreme Court decided that Findexa holds an exclusive right to the trademark. Several paintings by Picasso rank among the most expensive paintings in the world. Yellow Pages) which is a registered trademark belonging to Findexa, which is owned by Eniro. In 1999, Picasso's Les Noces (The Marriage of Pierrette) sold for more than USD $51 million. In Norway the directory is called "Gule Sider" (i.e. Anthony Hopkins played Picasso in the movie. The company Xybertek Systems provides additional business information on all Nigerian companies. The film Surviving Picasso was made about Picasso in 1996, as seen through the eyes of Françoise Gilot.

In Nigeria, the Nigerian Yellow Pages is produced as internet-based yellow pages in English language by the company Xybertek Systems. In 2003, relatives of Picasso inaugurated a museum dedicated to him in his birthplace, Málaga, Spain, the Museo Picasso Málaga. In Netherlands the equivalent directory is titled Gouden Gids; within the district concerned it is distributed free to each telephone subscriber. These works form the core of the immense and representative collection of the Musée Picasso in Paris. The Sección Amarilla is distributed yearly and free of charge by the homonimous company in association with Telmex; older issues are returned to the company, recycled, and used to print the latest issue. Since Picasso left no will, his death duties, or estate tax to the French state, were paid in the form of his works and others from his collection. In Mexico the commercial phone directory is called Sección Amarilla (Yellow Section), while the personal phone directory is called Sección Blanca (White Section). In addition, Picasso had a considerable collection of the work of other famous artists, some his contemporaries, such as Henri Matisse, with whom he had exchanged works.

The phone book is updated regularly (typically every six months or a year) and is published in various editions (depending where the book is published). At the time of his death, he had many paintings, as he had kept off the art market what he didn't need to sell. The phone book consisted of white pages and yellow pages. His final words were "drink to me". Infomedia Nusantara (one of its subsidiaries), regularly publishes phone books. Jacqueline Roque prevented his children Claude and Paloma from attending the funeral. In Indonesia, the telecommunication company TELKOM with PT. Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973, and was interred at Castle Vauvenargues' park, in Vauvenargues, Bouches-du-Rhône.

In Germany a directory titled Die Gelben Seiten is distributed free to each subscriber, by the Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile. Only later, after Picasso's death, when the rest of the art world had moved on from abstract expressionism, did the critical community come to see that Picasso had already discovered neo-expressionism and was, as usual, ahead of his time. In Finland the directory is called Keltaiset sivut. One long time admirer, Douglas Cooper, called them "the incoherent scribblings of a frenetic old man". In Denmark the equivalent directory is titled De Gule Sider is distributed free to each subscriber, by TDC Forlag. At the time these works were dismissed by most as pornographic fantasies of an impotent old man or the slapdash works of an artist who was past his prime. In Colombia, the standard yellow and White Pages are published and distributed every year free of charge by Publicar, a Colombian subsidiary company of Carvajal, which also publishes and distributes yellow and white pages in other Latin American countries. Devoting his full energies to his work, Picasso became more daring, his works more colourful and expressive, and from 1968 through 1971 he produced a torrent of paintings and hundreds of copperplate engravings.

By early 2005, there were a number of independent local and international yellow pages operators in numerous cities including Yilong Huangbaoshu, based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province with operations in Hangzhou and Ningbo. Picasso's final works were a mixture of styles, his styles and periods changing right until the end of his life. Later, another mainly state-owned telecom operator, China Netcom began to produce, either directly or on a sub-contracted basis, yellow pages in selected cities around the country. To a man for whom this was such an important part of life, this was a serious life change and Picasso seems to have dealt with it by redoubling his already prolific artistic output. In China, the modern yellow pages industry was started in the late 1990’s with the formation of two international joint ventures between US yellow pages publishers and China’s telecom operators, namely: a joint venture started in Shenzhen between RHDonnelley and China Unicom (later including Hong Kong’s PCCW and InfoSpace); and a joint venture between China Telecom Shanghai and what later came to be known as the yellow pages operations of Verizon Communications Corp.(NYSE:VZ). In his 80s and 90s, Picasso, no longer quite the energetic dynamo he had been in his youth, became more and more impotent. In Czech Republic and Slovakia the equivalent directory is titled Zlaté stránky and is distributed free to each telephone subscriber. Picasso refused to be paid $100,000 for it, donating it to the people of Chicago.

Competitive local directories often include commercial directories on yellow paper, but cannot use the Yellow Pages brand. The sculpture, one of the most recognizable landmarks of downtown Chicago was unveiled in 1967. Other ILECs such as MTS and SaskTel publish their own directories and use the Yellow Pages name under licence. What the figure is exactly is not known; it could be a bird, a horse, a woman or a totally abstract shape. Yellow Pages Group is the market leader in print and online commercial directories and one of the largest media companies in Canada, producing the official directories of Bell Canada, Telus and Aliant. He approached the project with a great deal of enthusiasm, designing a sculpture which was ambiguous and became somewhat controversial. It produces and distributes directories in both English and French. He was commissioned to make a maquette for a huge 50 foot high sculpture to be built in Chicago, Illinois, known usually as the Chicago Picasso.

In Canada the company Yellow Pages Group owns the trademarks Yellow Pages and Pages Jaunes. The media would give him much attention, though they were often more interested in his personal life than his art. In Belgium the equivalent directory is titled Pages d'Or (French) or Gouden Gids (Dutch), and is distributed free to each telephone subscriber. Picasso had constructed a huge gothic structure and could afford large villas in the south of France, at Notre-dame-de-vie on the outskirts of Mougins, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. In (The Republic of) Ireland the equivalent directory is titled Golden Pages while in Northern Ireland it is "yellow pages". During this time he lived at Cannes and in 1955 helped make the film Le Mystère Picasso (The Mystery of Picasso) directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. More competition is expected in November 2005 from the libralisation of "12", the former unique "4-1-1" number of Renseignements Telephoniques, french for Directory Inquiry. He also based paintings on works on art by Goya, Poussin, Manet, Courbet and Delacroix.

Another French editor of Yellow Pages is Bottin. He made a series of works based on Velazquez's painting of Las Meninas. Since the liberalization of .fr domains in May 2004, the domain yellowpages.fr has been registered by Phonebook of the World.com. In the 1950s his style changed once again as he began looking at the art of the great masters, and making new art about it. Vivendi Universal moved to enter the French Yellow Pages market in 2001 with scoot.fr, but the attempt was a killed by a reorganisation of the struggling company. Picasso always played himself in his film appearances. Previously, many former state monopoly telecom companies outside the US had tried to ban competition by claiming the term "yellow pages", or the translation of "yellow pages" into the vernacular, as their exclusive trademark. In addition to his manifold artistic accomplishments, Picasso had a film career, including a cameo appearance in Jean Cocteau's Testament of Orpheus.

This court decision defended by the Parisian Lawyer, Andre Bertrand, was path-setting for the whole European Yellow Pages industry, as it decided that the phrase "Yellow Pages" cannot be considered the property of a single company. Picasso then secretly married Roque after Gilot had filed for divorce in order to exact his revenge for her leaving him. pagesjaunes.com, the .com version of Pages Jaunes, was the issue of a major court case at WIPO; the original registrant, an individual from Los Angeles, won against France Télécom. With Picasso's encouragement, she had arranged to divorce her then husband, Luc Simon, and marry Picasso to secure her children's rights. They are distributed free by Pagesjaunes.fr, a company affiliated with France Télécom. Gilot had been seeking a legal means to legitimize her children with Picasso, Claude and Paloma. In France Yellow Pages are referred to as Pages Jaunes. Their marriage was also the means of one last act of revenge against Gilot.

The most famous of these immortalised the phrase 'Not happy, Jan!' in the Australian vernacular. The two remained together for the rest of Picasso's life, marrying in 1961. The Yellow Pages have for many years produced some of Australia's most popular television commercials, often highlighting the perils of not placing an advertisement in the directory on time. Roque worked at the Madoura Pottery, where Picasso made and painted ceramics. Today, the Yellow Pages is produced by Sensis, a wholly-owned advertising subsidiary of Telstra. Picasso was not long in finding another lover, Jacqueline Roque. The directory was originally produced by the Postmaster General, and continued to be produced by the government, as the telephone system transferred to Telecom Australia and now Telstra. A number of ink drawings from this period explore this theme of the hideous old dwarf as buffoonish counterpoint to the beautiful young girl, including several from a six-week affair with Geneviève Laporte, who in June 2005 auctioned off the drawings Picasso made of her.

Australia's business directory was first published in its own volume in 1973 as the Yellow Pages. He went through a difficult period after Gilot's departure, coming to terms with his advancing age and his perception that he was an old man, now in his 70s, who was no longer attractive, but rather grotesque to young women. After the one year "no competition" clause expired BT too went into competition with the Yellow Pages, re-entering the market by adding similar content to their existing "The Phone Book", adding a classified section to the traditional alphabetical domestic and business listings. This came as a severe blow to Picasso. Yell was bought by venture capitalists in 2001, and in 2003 was floated on the Stock Exchange. Uniquely among Picasso's women, Gilot left Picasso in 1953, allegedly because of abusive treatment and infidelities. In the mid-1990s the Yellow Pages business was re-branded as Yell, although the directory itself continued to be known as the Yellow Pages. The two eventually became lovers, and had two children together, Claude, and Paloma.

In 1984, the year that BT was privatized, the department producing the directory became a stand alone subsidiary of BT, named Yellow Pages. After the liberation of Paris in 1944, Picasso began to keep company with a young art student, Françoise Gilot. At the same time, The Thomson Corporation formed Thomson Directories Ltd, and began to publish the Thomson Local directory, which would remain the Yellow Pages' main, and often sole, competitor in the UK for more than the next two decades, and would be the competitive driving force behind such changes to Yellow Pages as the adoption (in 1999) of colour printing and "knock-out-white" listings. The two were closest in the late 1930s and early 1940s and it was Maar who documented the painting of Guernica. The Yellow Pages directory continued to be distributed to all telephone subscribers by BT. The photographer and painter Dora Maar was also a constant companion and lover of Picasso. Thomson Yellow Pages was sold by The Thomson Corporation in 1980, at the same time as Post Office Telecommunications became the (then) state-owned British Telecom (BT). Marie-Thérèse lived in the vain hope that Picasso would one day marry her and hanged herself four years after Picasso's death.

The Thomson Corporation formed Thomson Yellow Pages in 1966 to publish and to distribute the directory to telephone subscribers for the GPO, and later for The Post Office. Picasso carried on a long-standing affair with Walter and fathered a daughter, Maia, with her. With the encouragement of The Thomson Corporation, at the time an advertising sales agent for the nationalised General Post Office's telephone directory, a business telephone number directory named the Yellow Pages was first produced in 1966 by the GPO for the Brighton area, and was rolled out nationwide in 1973. The two remained legally married until Khoklova's death in 1955. Los Angeles telephone users can select from telephone directories published by SBC, Verizon, and several independent advertising companies. Picasso's marriage to Khoklova soon ended in separation rather than divorce, as French law required an even division of property in the case of divorce and Picasso did not want Khoklova to have half his wealth. For example, SBC Communications is the dominant local telephone service provider in California, but since Verizon acquired GTE, it now provides service in many pockets such as West Los Angeles. In 1927 Picasso met 17 year old Marie-Thérèse Walter and began a secret affair with her.

Others are telephone companies who provide local telephone service elsewhere. Khoklova's insistence on social propriety clashed with Picasso's bohemian tendencies and the two lived in a state of constant conflict. Some of these publishers are pure advertising operations with no phone infrastructure. The two had a son, Paulo, who would grow up to be a dissolute motorcycle racer and chauffeur to his father. Since the Bell breakup, other companies publish directories that compete with those of local telephone companies for advertising business. Khoklova introduced Picasso to high society, formal dinner parties, and all the social niceties attendant on the life of the rich in 1920s Paris. Then and since, phone companies or their agents sell the right to place advertisements within the same category, next to the basic listings. In 1918, Picasso married Olga Khoklova, a ballerina with Sergei Diaghilev's troupe, for whom Picasso was designing a ballet, Parade, in Rome.

Directories were published on behalf of the component Bell companies by the various publishing companies. Humbert was diagnosed with cancer and during her rapid deterioration, Picasso administered to her every need, making daily trips across Paris to visit her in the hospital. At least until the anti-trust breakup of the Bell System in the late 20th century, the term "Yellow Pages" was a trademark for commercial directories and the commercial portions of the by-commercial-category sections of directories that also include by-name listings. Picasso included declarations of his love for Eva in many Cubist works. In 2004, the search engine A9.com added a similar feature for many cities in the United States when it launched its Yellow Pages feature. After garnering fame and some fortune, Picasso left Olivier for Marcelle Humbert, whom Picasso called Eva. Thus, French Yellow Pages users can see a photograph of a business along with its phone number and street address. It is she who appears in many of the Rose period paintings.

In 1999, a new tactic was pioneered by France Télécom's Pages Jaunes, which dispatched photographers to record nearly every possible view in front of nearly every address in certain French cities. In the early years of the twentieth century, Picasso, still a struggling youth, began a long term relationship with Fernande Olivier. The information contained in the Yellow Pages is essentially a commodity, so publishers often engage in product differentiation tactics like bragging that their listings are more comprehensive or up-to-date. Picasso married twice and had four children by three women. Many publishers now make their listings available on the World Wide Web, on "Yellow Pages" Web sites. In Paris, in addition to having a distinguished coterie of friends in the Montmartre and Montparnasse quarters, including André Breton, Guillaume Apollinaire, writer Gertrude Stein and others, he usually maintained a number of mistresses in addition to his wife or primary partner. When an advertisement is printed with a white background, its part of the page does not receive yellow ink - so the white is actually the natural color of the paper. Picasso hated to be alone when he wasn't working.

Interestingly, most yellow pages are not printed on yellow paper; rather the yellow is printed onto the paper. His beliefs tended towards anarcho-communism. Many publishers also offer the option to have advertisements appear with a white background to make them stand out more. But party criticism of a portrait of Stalin as insufficiently realistic cooled Picasso's interest in Communist politics, though he remained a loyal member of the Communist Party until his death. Since the mid-1990s, there has been a trend among Yellow Pages publishers to add four-color printing for some advertisements. After the Second World War, Picasso rejoined the French Communist Party, and even attended an international peace conference in Poland. Yellow Pages publishers make their profits by selling special value-added features to businesses such as a larger font size for their listing, or an advertisement box next to the listings in a category. In 1992 the painting hung in the Madrid's Reina Sofía Museum when it opened.

The majority of listings are in plain small black text. In 1981 Guernica was returned to Spain and exhibited at the Casón del Buen Retiro. Yellow Pages directories are usually published annually and distributed for free to all residences and businesses within a given coverage area. Guernica hung in New York's Museum of Modern Art for many years. . The act of painting was captured in a series of photographs by Picasso's most famous lover, Dora Maar, a distinguished artist in her own right. As the name suggests, they are usually printed on yellow paper. This large canvas embodies for many the inhumanity, brutality and hopelessness of war.

In many countries, the Yellow Pages refers to a telephone directory for businesses organized by the category of product or service. Arguably Picasso's most famous work is his depiction of the German bombing of Guernica, Spain — Guernica. URL accessed on February 15, 2005.. While the Germans outlawed bronze casting in Paris, Picasso was still able to continue because of the French resistance who would smuggle bronze to him. Yell: UK Operations. He retreated into his studio, continuing to paint all the while. UK History: 1990-1999. The Nazis hated his style of painting, so he was not able to show his works during this time.

URL accessed on February 15, 2005.. During the Second World War, Picasso resided in Paris when the Germans occupied the city. Yell: UK Operations. No political movement seemed to compel his support to any great degree. UK History: 1980-1989. He also remained aloof from the Catalan independence movement during his youth despite expressing general support and being friendly with activists within it. URL accessed on February 15, 2005.. While Picasso expressed anger and condemnation of Franco and the Fascists through his art he did not take up arms against them.

ketupa.net media profiles. In the Spanish Civil War, service for Spaniards living abroad was optional and would have involved a voluntary return to the country to join either side. Thomson Group: chronology. As a Spanish citizen living in France, Picasso was under no compulsion to fight against the invading Germans in either world war. URL accessed on February 15, 2005.. Some of his contemporaries though (including Braque) felt that this neutrality had more to do with cowardice than principle. TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES & DIRECTORY ENQUIRIES UK 2004. Picasso never commented on this but encouraged the idea that it was because he was a pacifist.

Thomson Directories. Picasso remained neutral during the Spanish Civil War, World War I and World War II, refusing to fight for any side or country. The Guinness Book of Records names Picasso as the most prolific painter ever – In his lifetime, he produced around 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints and engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures. His use of the minotaur came partly from his contact with the surrealists, who often used it as their symbol, and appears in Picasso's Guernica. During the 1930s, the minotaur replaced the harlequin as a motif which he used often in his work.

A comedic character usually depicted in checkered patterned clothing, the harlequin became a personal symbol for Picasso. Picasso used harlequins in many of his early works, especially in his Blue and Rose Periods. There are many precise and detailed figure studies done in his youth under his father's tutelage, as well as rarely seen works from his old age that clearly demonstrate Picasso's firm grounding in classical techniques. The Museu Picasso in Barcelona features many of Picasso's early works, created while he was living in Spain, as well as the extensive collection of Jaime Sabartés, Picasso's close friend from his Barcelona days who, for many years, was Picasso's personal secretary.

Although Picasso attended art schools throughout his childhood, often those where his father taught, he never finished his college-level course of study at the Academy of Arts (Academia de San Fernando) in Madrid, leaving after less than a year. It was from his father that Picasso learned the basics of formal academic art training, such as figure drawing and painting in oil. Picasso's father, José Ruiz y Blasco, was himself a painter, and for most of his life a professor of art at the School of Fine Arts and Crafts and a curator of a local museum. Pablo Diego José Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain, the first child of José Ruiz y Blasco and María Picasso y López.

While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are: Image:Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.jpg. Picasso's work is often categorized into "periods". . He famously rendered complex scenes as just a few geometric shapes in his mixed-media cubist works, but also produced masterful realist portraits.

He worked mainly with paint, but had equal facility in oil, watercolour, pastels, charcoal, pencil and ink. One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Full name) (October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor. 30 pict (biography).

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List of Picasso artworks 1901-1910. List of Picasso artworks 1889-1900. Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), involving the use of collage and cut paper, the first time collage had been used in fine art. Picasso and Braque's paintings at this time are very similar to each other.

Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), a style of painting he developed along with Braque using monochrome brownish colours, where they took apart objects and "analyzed" them in terms of their shapes. African-influenced Period (1908–1909), influenced by the two figures on the right in his painting of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, he used African artifacts as the inspiration for his work. He met Fernande Olivier,a model for sculptors and artists, in Paris at this time, and many of these paintings are influenced by his warm relationship with her, in addition to his exposure to French painting. Rose Period (1905–1907), characterized by a more cheerful style with orange and pink colors, and again featuring many harlequins.

Blue Period (1901–1904), consisting of somber, blue-tinted paintings influenced by a trip through Spain and the recent death of a friend, often featuring depictions of acrobats, harlequins, prostitutes, beggars and artists.