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.
Portrait of Picasso
Title | Portrait of Picasso PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Roland Penrose |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Artists |
ISBN |
Picasso Paints a Portrait
Title | Picasso Paints a Portrait PDF eBook |
Author | David Douglas Duncan |
Publisher | ABRAMS |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | |
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Presents Duncan's photographs of Picasso painting a portrait of his future wife, Jacqueline, at the Villa La Californie, France, 1957.
Picasso Portraits
Title | Picasso Portraits PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Cowling |
Publisher | National Portrait Gallery Publications |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781855147607 |
From first to last, Picasso's prime subject was the human figure and portraiture remained a favourite genre. His earliest portraits were done from life and reveal a precocious ability to catch likeness and suggest character and state of mind. B y 1900 Picasso was producing portraits of astonishing variety and thereafter they reflected the full range of his innovative styles - symbolist, cubist, neoclassica l, surrealist, expressionist. B ut however extreme his departur e from representational conventions, Picasso never wholly abandoned drawing from the sitter or ceased producing portraits of classic beauty and naturalism. For all his radical originality, Picasso remained in constant dialogue with the art of the past and his portraits often alluded to canonical masterpieces, chosen for their appropriateness to the looks and personality of his subject. Treating favourite Old Masters as indecorously as his intimate friends, he enjoyed caricaturing them and indulging in fant asies about their sex lives that mirrored his own obsession with the interaction of eroticism and creativity. His late suites of free ' variations ' after Vel�zquez's Las Meninas and Rembrandt's The Prodigal Son , both of which involve self - portraiture, allow ed him to ruminate on the complex psychological relationship of artist and sitter, and continu ities between past and present. When Picasso depicted people in his intimate circle, the nature of his bond with them inevitably influenced his interpretation. T he focus of this book is not, however, Picasso's life story but his creative process, and, although following a broadly chronological path, its chapters are structured thematically. Issues addressed in depth include Picasso's exploitation of familiar pose s and formats, his sources of inspiration and identification with favourite Old Masters, the role of caricature in his expressive conception of portraiture, the relationship between observation, memory and fantasy, critical differences between his portray al of men and women, and the motivation behind his defiance of decorum and the extreme transformation of his sitter's appearance.
Picasso and Portraiture
Title | Picasso and Portraiture PDF eBook |
Author | Pablo Picasso |
Publisher | |
Pages | 508 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Portrait painting |
ISBN |
This book, published to accompany a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, opening in April 1996, no doubt will long remain the definitive work on its subject.
The Spanish Portrait
Title | The Spanish Portrait PDF eBook |
Author | Javier Portús Pérez |
Publisher | Nouvelles éditions Scala |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Presents a survey of the development of this genre in Spanish art from the 15th century to the early decades of the 20th, through a selection of 87 works.
Picasso
Title | Picasso PDF eBook |
Author | Olivier Widmaier Picasso |
Publisher | Tate |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2018-10-16 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781849765893 |
This biography paints a riveting portrait of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), examining both his strengths and shortcomings as husband, lover, and father. Olivier Widmaier Picasso's unique insight into the life of one of the 20th century's most influential artists details not only Picasso's hopes, fears, and regrets, but also his certainties and commitments, his unique audacity, his happiness, and his conflicts. Picasso: An Intimate Portrait is a detailed study of a lifetime dedicated to art, in which the author skillfully captures the real man at the heart of the many fictions and legends that the artist inspired. This masterful text is illustrated with a wealth of drawings, engravings, paintings, and sculptures, as well as many rarely seen and personal photographs by David Douglas Duncan, Edward Quinn, André Villers, Lucien Clergue, Man Ray, Michel Sima, and Robert Capa, among others.