John Richardson’s third installment into the life of Pablo Picasso, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 is getting rave revews.
This powerhouse of a book spans a dauntingly complicated time in Picasso’s life and in European history as well, taking us from World War I and Picasso’s adventures with Diaghilev and the […]
“Looking at these “Rembrandt” prints a few years later, Picasso dryly commented to his mistress Françoise Gilot that “every painter takes himself for Rembrandt.” He was right. No artist in the Western canon, not Raphael, not Michelangelo, not even Goya, has been so compulsively co-opted as heroic alter ego as Rembrandt. Painters like Turner, Delacroix, […]
One of Pablo Picasso’s most recognizable pieces is “Three Musicians.” Geometric shapes filled with vivid solid colors create an image that seem as though it should be protruding off the paper. Although not literally having depth, the three musicians appear to be due to their contrast with the dull brown monochrome background. […]
It’s exactly a century since Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Picasso worked on Les Demoiselles d’Avignon as he had never worked on any painting before.
“One art historian has even claimed that the hundreds of paintings and drawings produced during its six-month gestation constitute “a quantity of preparatory work unique not only in Picasso’s career, but […]
