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Everything you can imagine is real
Exhibition: Guernica Date: 27 March – 29 July 2018 Venue: Canal de Isabel II Foundation, Madrid. Musée national Picasso | Paris, France Although, as Picasso himself put it, he “led the life of a painter” from very early childhood, and although he expressed himself through the plastic arts for eighty uninterrupted years, the essence of Picasso’s creative genius differs from that usually associated with the notion of the artiste-peintre. It might be more correct to consider him an ‘artist-poet’ because his lyricism, his psyche, unfettered by mundane reality, and his gift for the metaphoric transformation of reality are no less inherent in his visual art than they are in the mental…
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[Part 2/3] Cubism: The Bermuda Triangle
From ancient history until the end of the 18th century, artwork was evaluated according to its content. The material from which the artwork was made played a subordinate role. The premise was that an idea in its most complete and ideal state is Pablo Picasso immaterial; thus, to a great extent, the material is secondary to the idea that it is helping the artist to express. Materials were placed in the hierarchical order that was determined by how little they would impinge upon the purity of the artistic premise. Only in the 20th century did the aesthetics relating to materials take hold. Material justice now became one of the criteria…
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Cuba’s Picasso: The Surreal World of Wifredo Lam
Subject to tumultuous moments in history, Wifredo Lam saw the peaks and valleys of the human condition. Skilled with an avant-garde paintbrush, his works have become a pinnacle of Cuban art. Exercising European education and a proclivity for the Afro-Caribbean culture together in an iconic yet familiar aesthetic, Lam shattered artistic stereotypes and effectively sucker-punched the cultural commodification happening in Cuba at the time. Fighting in the Spanish Civil War and fleeing Germany in the 1940s, Lam not only experienced major conflicts of the 20th century, but he also artistically cavorted with some the era’s greatest artists from Matisse to Picasso. Deeply influenced by Picasso, when Lam first saw the modern master’s…
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与毕加索一起涂鸦
大英博物馆最终成功地“哄骗”到手了毕加索的由一百张版画组成的沃拉尔系列（Vollard Suite）——哦，不，这不是某个古灵精怪的主题酒店中房间的名字，而是毕加索的版画系列。这一批宏大的版画系列为了交换一些绘画作品而作，其中便包括了塞尚（Cezanne）和雷诺阿（Renoir）的作品。 批评家们相互攀附，他们奉承、嗤笑、滔滔不绝地讨论这些版画，不请自来地分析着这些线条和阴影可能的意义，像小孩子一样争吵着，看谁最能溜须拍马。我赞同这一系列作品确实揭示了过渡时期艺术家的内心，但是至今为止只有我心不在焉在手机上的涂鸦让我在那段特殊的时期洞悉了我对此的思考。好吧，所以一张画着火柴人或一朵花的照片显然不如挺着胸脯的弥诺陶洛斯（一种人身牛头的怪物）让人印象深刻，但是涂鸦画就是涂鸦画，不多也不少。 用在世的画家的一批版画交换知名大师的绘画作品确实有点赌博的感觉，但是这确实是很值得的。当然，这并不是说穷困潦倒的老安布鲁瓦兹·沃拉尔（Ambroise Vollard），他在这批版画完成之年去世了；而是之后的几十年中这匹版画几经易手，现在这套系列已经价值九十万英镑！这一数目可谓相当惊人。毕加索作为杰出的艺术家的地位是当之无愧的，但是这并不意味着杰出的艺术家的所有作品都是杰出的。一旦这样的流言蜚语流传开来，我想知道他们是否知道他们所拥有的是什么。 如果大英博物馆感兴趣的话，我也有一些版画作品可以出售，名字分别为《树》、《涡旋形状》和《待办事项》。每件叫卖4500英镑，只是毕加索的版画一半价格的便宜货！ 当然，如果你要违背我的警告，想要看看毕加索的艺术作品，为什么不选择这本《毕加索艺术》呢？
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Picasso and women: fear and desire
It is the six million euro question – or much more, if you are Picasso’s granddaughter enjoying reverse retail therapy by selling inherited art and property. What were the great modern artist’s relationships with women really like? Picasso has been characterised by many as a misogynist, a bully who put “his” women on a pedestal only to knock them off it, a man who feared, as well as desired, the female body and who was a selfish, demanding, narcissistic husband, lover and even grandparent. You get the picture, recognise the cliche. But is any of it really true? There is another side to Picasso, and an exhibition opening at the…
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Picasso censored! No more breasts in his paintings
I am not surprised Fox has censored Picasso’s breasts. It is absurd and creepy to blur out the bosoms of his Women of Algiers in a report on the painting that set a new world record this week. But it is not completely impossible to understand, because if you were a puritan or a fundamentalist or just hated women’s bodies, Picasso’s breasts are the kind of breasts you might find shocking. Picasso is definitely one of the all-time great artists of the breast. His only rivals are the 16th-century painter Titian, whose Venus of Urbino certainly has some nice nipples, and the 17th-century adorer of buxom wenches Peter Paul Rubens,…
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Claude Monets Seerosen – Traumhaft oder Grauenhaft?
Claude Monet ist neben Pablo Picasso einer der bekanntesten und beliebtesten Künstler unserer Zeit. „Das ist wie ein Monet“ oder „Das ist ein echter Picasso.“ ist in unserer Sprache fest verankert, sodass diese Ausdrücke auch Nicht-kunstinteressierten bekannt sind. Doch was lässt ihn sich abheben von den vielen anderen, talentierten Künstlern? Ist Monet nicht viel zu überschätzt? In meiner Zeit in München erfuhr ich aus erster Hand die Wirkung von Monets berühmten Seerosen: In der Pinakothek der Moderne beginnt eine Tour im ersten, großen Hauptsaal, indem Monets Bild „Seerosen“ (um 1915 in Giverny entstanden) in monumentaler Größe auf der rechten Hauptwand zu sehen ist, platziert neben Max Klingers Plastik „Elsa Asenijeff“…
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Pablo Picasso – Sitting woman with crossed legs, 1906.
Click on the image to see Pablo Picasso’s Sitting woman with crossed legs in High Resolution, with all its amazing details!
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Ein Verführer und die Liebe
Pablo Picasso, ein unermütlich arbeitender Künstler des letzten Jahrhunderts, der Zeit seines Lebens immer wieder neue Quellen der Inspiration suchte, die er oft aus der frisch erblühenden Liebe zu einer Frau zog. Seine zahlreichen Frauen waren Musen für ihn, um immer wieder neue, vielfältige und faszinierende Kunstwerke zu erschaffen. So griff der Charmeur im Verlauf seiner künstlerischen Karriere unter anderem immer wieder ähnliche Sujets aus den Bereichen Liebe, Liebespaare und erotisches Zusammensein in seinen Bildern auf. Seine Kunstwerke können als Tagebücher seines täglichen Lebens und vor allem seines seelischen und emotionalen Zustands verstanden werden, in denen er sein Verhältnis zu seinen zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen offenbarte und reflektierte. Von daher zeigt sein…
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The Hidden Beauty of Cubism
It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who said: “Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.” However, there are many forms and styles of accepted ‘art’ which do not conform to conventional definitions of beauty. Take Cubism as an example. Many art enthusiasts, whilst acknowledging that the likes of Pablo Picasso and George Braque are masters of their craft, are confounded by Cubism. Abstract art may have this effect in the general sense, but there is something about Cubism which perplexes and befuddles the viewer.
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