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Picasso Erotique
The career of the greatest painter of the twentieth century was played out in the shadow of Eros -- and of Thanatos. At the age of eight, Picasso's first drawings already displayed a precocious interest in the female form, and in the days leading up to his death he was still working obsessively on sketches of the female sex.
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First published June 1, 2001
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Pablo Picasso
1,003 books966 followersPablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25, 1881 - April 08, 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.
Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art.
Picasso's output, especially in his early career, is often periodized. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Much of Picasso's work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism. His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles.
Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.
One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.
Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art.
Picasso's output, especially in his early career, is often periodized. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Much of Picasso's work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism. His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles.
Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.
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June 15, 2020
Great curation. Still I don't like Picasso, even though i got to see many styles and facets in this book.
March 6, 2009
This book contains some beautiful, less-seen aspects of Picasso's work. In recent travels I have noticed that when it comes to the greatest of artists, the oeuvre we get to see and learn about in the U.S. is pretty lacking in depth and breadth.
It doesn't take an art historian to know that his women were important to him - his muses, his objets de desir, his playthings (and yes, he was notoriously cruel to them, but I think his cruelty was not restricted to the women he was with)...
Of particular interest are the sketches of Minotaurs ravaging women with their superhuman sexuality. Apparently he viewed himself as one... and viewed some of the women in his life as his Carmen.
Later in the book he obscures himself in each drawing with dark, scribbling lines. Not being a Picasso scholar, I wouldn't know why, but it almost seems like angry self-negation.
It doesn't take an art historian to know that his women were important to him - his muses, his objets de desir, his playthings (and yes, he was notoriously cruel to them, but I think his cruelty was not restricted to the women he was with)...
Of particular interest are the sketches of Minotaurs ravaging women with their superhuman sexuality. Apparently he viewed himself as one... and viewed some of the women in his life as his Carmen.
Later in the book he obscures himself in each drawing with dark, scribbling lines. Not being a Picasso scholar, I wouldn't know why, but it almost seems like angry self-negation.
September 30, 2016
I was at the show in Montreal. This book is wonderful and reallky shows the sexy side of Picasso.
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