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Pablo Picasso and
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Picasso´s
unknown masterpieces, site devoted to the authentication of a previously
unknown Picasso.
"Guernica"
Picasso´s work
Picasso was probably the only artist who managed to become a living legend
after testing all new forms of art though he was not the only one who
invented Cubism. Still he had this rare capacity to pick what others had
achieved to achieve his own style and be way ahead of other painters.
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| Picasso, Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor,
printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most
influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque)
of Cubism. The enormous body of Picasso's work, including painting, sculpture,
works on paper, ceramics, and poetry, remains; and the legend lives on a
tribute to the vitality of the "disquieting" Spaniard with the "sombre...
piercing" eyes who superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive.
For many years Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed
significantly to and paralleled the whole development of modern art in the
20th century. |
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Life With Mandolin |
Cubism: After Cubism, the world never looked the same
again: it was one of the most influential and revolutionary movements in
art. The Spaniard Pablo Picasso and the Frenchman Georges Braque splintered
the visual world not wantonly, but sensuously and beautifully with their
new art. They provided what we could almost call a God's-eye view of reality:
every aspect of the whole subject, seen simultaneously in a single dimension.
The Cubist movement in painting was developed by Picasso and Braque around
1907 and became a major influence on Western art. The artists chose to break
down the subjects they were painting into a number of facets, showing several
different aspects of one object simultaneously. The work up to 1912 is known
as Analytical Cubism, concentrating on geometrical forms using subdued colors.
The second phase, known as Synthetic Cubism, used more decorative shapes,
stencilling, collage, and brighter colors. It was then that artists such
as Picasso and Braque started to use pieces of cut-up newspaper in their
paintings.
In effect Cubism did not come to light at the turn of the 20th Century but
was in the air long ago like a formula that several scientists can sense
but not find.
Picasso had the genius to open the door to Cubism and to carry out an incredible
revolution but before coming to that point he also had an incredible appetite
for absorbing all known forms of art thanks to his multiple talents. |
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| The Picasso Museum:The Musée Picasso is situated in
thecentre of the historic Paris, and it has a collection ofl thousands of
works of Pablo Picasso. During the life of Picasso, he created diverse works:
painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, engraving, and even poetry. After
his death in 1973, many of Picasso's works went to the French state, which
decided to form a museum with the collection. To house the collection, they
chose to use a seventeenth-century hotel, situated in the Marais. This is
the Hôtel Salé that was built in 1656 for the general Aubert de Fontenay.
Before housing the musée Picasso, the hotel was already well-known. It was
leased to the ambassador of Venice, and it became the Central School of
Art and Manufacture (and then the School of "métiers d'art"), and finally
it was leased to the state in 1975. The restoration of the museum was completed
in 1985. Today, there are 203 paintings, 191 sculptures, 85 ceramics, and
over 3000 drawings, engravings, and manuscripts in the museum. Besides the
personal collection of Picasso, the museum also has some works of Cézanne
and Matisse. |
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| Finally Picasso, who was the object of dozens of books and
whose “catalogue raisonné” covers 34 volumes, was unique as a result of
his immense work as a painter, sculptor, engraver and draughtsman. |
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| Picasso was a genius, a man who had art running in his veins
but little heart as a common individual as he sacrificed his life for the
sake of creation. Nothing else counted, even the many women who fell in
love with him. In fact they had become the willing servants of a kind of
living god who liked above all to have his ego flattered. Women were simply
subjects or objects who nurtured his passion for painting. When he had enough
of one he would find another and in every sense of the word Picasso was
a vampire |
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