Pablo Picasso: The Impossible Collection
Title | Pablo Picasso: The Impossible Collection PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Widmaier Picasso |
Publisher | Assouline Publishing |
Pages | 6 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1614288615 |
Pablo Picasso redefined artwork throughout his extraordinary career, becoming indisputably one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. In this evocative volume, the artist’s granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso, curates the 100 quintessential, unique works that define the evolution of this illustrious artist, creating a stunning compendium of pieces that simply could never all be acquired by a single collector. Casual art lovers know his Cubist work and the Guernica, but Picasso: The Impossible Collection manages to go deeper, revealing and revisiting some less ubiquitous yet equally powerful paintings, prints, sculptures and photographs from Picasso’s astonishing oeuvre.
Who Was Pablo Picasso?
Title | Who Was Pablo Picasso? PDF eBook |
Author | True Kelley |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2009-10-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1101151005 |
Over a long, turbulent life, Picasso continually discovered new ways of seeing the world and translating it into art. A restless genius, he went through a blue period, a rose period, and a Cubist phase. He made collages, sculptures out of everyday objects, and beautiful ceramic plates. True Kelley's engaging biography is a wonderful introduction to modern art.
Picasso
Title | Picasso PDF eBook |
Author | Gertrude Stein |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 47 |
Release | 2022-11-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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As the butch doyenne of the Parisian Salons, Gertrude Stein captures the heart of Picasso in that context and gives insights on how Picasso worked as an artist and why Cubism came about in the way that it did. Also, this portrait of Picasso contains pretty clear description of Cubism and reveals a lot about relationship between Picasso and Stein without revealing a lot of actual events in either of their lives. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector, best known for Three Lives, The Making of Americans and Tender Buttons. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. Picasso and Cubism were an important influence on Stein's writing. Her works are compared to James Joyce's Ulysses and to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
A Picasso Portfolio
Title | A Picasso Portfolio PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Wye |
Publisher | The Museum of Modern Art |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780870707803 |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Picasso: Themes and Variations" held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., Mar. 24-Sept. 6, 2010.
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man
Title | Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Mailer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Artist couples |
ISBN | 9780349108322 |
The author sets out to capture Picasso's early life in this biography, exploring the originality of his art and ambition. At the heart of the interpretation is Picasso's first great love, Fernande Olivier, with whom the artist lived for seven years - a period which included his most revolutionary works. Fernande is given her own voice by way of excerpts from her candid memoirs. Including the artist's friendships with Apollonaire and Gertrude Stein, the book evokes the atmosphere of bohemian life in Paris in the early 1900s.
Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
Title | Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World PDF eBook |
Author | Miles J. Unger |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 2019-03-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1476794227 |
One of The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 “An engrossing read…a historically and psychologically rich account of the young Picasso and his coteries in Barcelona and Paris” (The Washington Post) and how he achieved his breakthrough and revolutionized modern art through his masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. In 1900, eighteen-year-old Pablo Picasso journeyed from Barcelona to Paris, the glittering capital of the art world. For the next several years he endured poverty and neglect before emerging as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. Here he met his first true love and enjoyed his first taste of fame. Decades later Picasso would look back on these years as the happiest of his long life. Recognition came first from the avant-garde, then from daring collectors like Leo and Gertrude Stein. In 1907, Picasso began the vast, disturbing masterpiece known as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Inspired by the painting of Paul Cézanne and the inventions of African and tribal sculpture, Picasso created a work that captured the disorienting experience of modernity itself. The painting proved so shocking that even his friends assumed he’d gone mad, but over the months and years it exerted an ever greater fascination on the most advanced painters and sculptors, ultimately laying the foundation for the most innovative century in the history of art. In Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World, Miles J. Unger “combines the personal story of Picasso’s early years in Paris—his friendships, his romances, his great ambition, his fears—with the larger story of modernism and the avant-garde” (The Christian Science Monitor). This is the story of an artistic genius with a singular creative gift. It is “riveting…This engrossing book chronicles with precision and enthusiasm a painting with lasting impact in today’s art world” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), all of it played out against the backdrop of the world’s most captivating city.
Goodbye Picasso
Title | Goodbye Picasso PDF eBook |
Author | David Douglas Duncan |
Publisher | Times Books |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Artists |
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A collection of photographs of Pablo Picasso's life and art, taken by his friend, award-winning photojournalist David Douglas Duncan.