Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is without doubt the most prolific and influential artist of the recently ended twentieth century. The various steps that critics and historians have managed to identify in his long career have been more helpful with regard to the classification of his works than in their analysis and interpretation. Abandoning the traditional use of subject matter to achieve variety and meaning, Picasso gradually reduced his options to a handful of standardized motifs but used a vast array of different styles as the principal means of communicating ideas and feelings. In short, style is meaning in Picasso’s art; his notoriously mercurial nature found expression in stylistic variety and experimentation. In the course of his long essay, Josep Palau i Fabre pinpoints the keys to understanding a period (1926-1939) and an artist who was fully aware of the complexity of his time and the timelessness of true art: ''Repeatedly, I am asked to explain how my painting evolved.To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all.The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the Great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past, perhaps it’s more alive today than it ever was.''
Picasso Cubism 1907-1917
Josep Palau i Fabre532pp./ 30.5x31.5cm./ 1584il./ Clothbound
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9788434306226 9788434306165 |
Castellano Català |
100.00€
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We now discover another Picasso, very different from the ones we have met in the two previous volumes Picasso, The Early Years, 1881-1907 and Picasso Cubism, 1907-1917. During the period between 1917 and 1926 the artist puts on his dress suit, lives in the elegant part of Paris, socialises with high society and returns to Classicism. However, beneath the surface of this formal Picasso, the permanently restless and tempestuous Picasso lives on: Cubism continues to develop with new accent and Surrealism bursts upon the scene before being announced officially, although one Picasso cannot be separated from the other. Through his commentaries, Josep Palau i Fabre invites us to enter the fascinating world of Picassian diversity. Indeed we discover a Picasso who behind the mask of Classicism conceals a hitherto unknown complexity.
Picasso, de los ballets al drama 1917-1926
Josep Palau i Fabre528pp./ 30.5x31.5cm./ 1800il./ Clothbound
ISBN:
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9788434309074 9788434309067 |
Castellano Català |
100.00€
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is without doubt the most prolific and influential artist of the recently ended twentieth century. The various steps that critics and historians have managed to identify in his long career have been more helpful with regard to the classification of his works than in their analysis and interpretation. Abandoning the traditional use of subject matter to achieve variety and meaning, Picasso gradually reduced his options to a handful of standardized motifs but used a vast array of different styles as the principal means of communicating ideas and feelings. In short, style is meaning in Picassoʼs art; his notoriously mercurial nature found expression in stylistic variety and experimentation.
In the course of his long essay, Josep Palau i Fabre pinpoints the keys to understanding a period (1926-1939) and an artist who was fully aware of the complexity of his time and the timelessness of true art: “Repeatedly, I am asked to explain how my painting evolved. To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past, perhaps itʼs more alive today than it ever was.”
456pp./ 0x0cm./ 1252il./ clothbound + slipcase
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9788434312715 9788434312739 9788434312722 |
Castellano English Català |
150.00€
