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Shelley’s Art Musing – “Cover up that bosom, which I can’t endure to look on”. (Tartuffe, Molière)
The Egon Schiele. The anniversary show is due to start in February 2018 with exhibits in Vienna, London, Hamburg and Cologne. It will display the main aspects of his work and his shunning of traditional art practices of his time, break taboos and exploring spirituality through his expressionist form. If you are unaware of Schiele’s work, he was an Austrian artist working in the early part of the 1900’s. His work is recognised for its raw intensity and sexuality. He produced many self portraits, some of which were nudes. The subjects of his work drawn with twisted body shapes and a unique line which made his work an early contender…
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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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New Picasso show aims to deconstruct myth
Picasso isn’t just an artist – he’s an industry. A new exhibition at Paris’ Grand Palais, however, endeavors to make sense of the man and the myth, through both his own work and that of his countless protégés. From paintings, to sculptures and videos, from cubism to surrealism, Pablo Picasso has done it all. It’s no wonder then, that his works have inspired many artists, from Andy Warhol to David Hockney. And while the Spanish master seems to be an endless source of inspiration for artists, he is also for curators around the world. Paris, where Picasso lived for a number of years, seems to vow an undying love for…
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Pascin, le prince de Montparnasse
24 décembre 1905 ; un homme arrive à Paris. Il a vingt ans et a déjà, malgré son jeune âge, une réputation qui le précède. Il est attendu comme le messie. Dans les années qui suivirent, Montparnasse devint son royaume ; on le surnomma d’ailleurs le « prince de Montparnasse » : je parle bien sûr de Pascin. Il régnait alors à Paris une douceur de vivre sans précédent ; la Longue Dépression avait pris fin. La guerre à venir était encore inconcevable. Paris était le centre artistique et culturel dans cet entre-deux chantant et dansant. C’est la Belle époque, et les « Cocottes » sont le symbole de la légèreté qui s’étendait de la butte Montmartre à…
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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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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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The Brown Fairy
Nicknamed ‘la fée brune’ (the brown fairy), opium may be less colourful than its friend absinthe, ‘the green fairy’, but it is no less intriguing. Imported from China by sailors in the 19th century, it became widely used in brothels in the port cities of France. But it wasn’t long before this ‘midnight oil’ became the fashionable drug of choice in the French capital. In the glorious years of the Parisian belle époque and then afterwards in the Golden Twenties (or as the French called them, les années folles, the ‘mad years’) opium use seized the artistic circles of society. Infamous opium users include Charles Baudelaire and André Malraux, who…
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« JE SUIS LE PEINTRE CLAUDE MONET »
Un ami essaye depuis quelques jours de reproduire ce dessin de Picasso : Convaincu que ce dessin est d’une simplicité extrême, il s’y essaye sans détours. Après plusieurs tentatives il s’aperçoit que la naïveté de Picasso est en fait une naïveté travaillée. Aux dernières nouvelles, il tente à présent de pénétrer l’esprit du peintre afin de parvenir à imiter son trait ! On veut tous connaître les folies, les manies, les anecdotes des plus grands maîtres de la peinture pour pouvoir comprendre comment ils atteignent de tels niveaux d’excellence. L’intérêt lorsque l’on se penche sur la vie d’un artiste, est d’essayer de découvrir des faits intéressants, que l’on ne trouve pas dans…
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Cubismo: un antes y un después
A las pequeñas piezas que, desde el siglo XIX, se fueron superponiendo sobre las bases cada vez más tambaleantes del arte tradicional se les sumó hacia 1908-09 una última pieza que desmoronó la torre entera. El cubismo destrozó la idea tradicional de perspectiva, aquella que había guiado el arte occidental desde hacía siglos. Nada de lo que se hiciera después sería del todo inmune a su influencia: el cubismo fue un borrón y cuenta nueva del que seguramente aún no hemos extraído todas las consecuencias. Como la figura de Pablo Picasso engulle todo lo que tiene a su alrededor, sigue siendo necesario recordar que el cubismo fue un invento tanto…
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