Pablo Picasso,"le coq (the rooster)" paris 1938, pastel on paper, 30 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches (77.5 x 55 cm) private collection
Pablo Picasso
Seven decades of drawing
07 October 2021 to 03 December 2021
Gallery Aquivira is proud to present Pablo Picasso's 70 Years of Painting Career, a comprehensive survey of Picasso, a painter, sculptor, printmaker and ceramicist, exhibiting more than 80 paintings spanning the artist's entire 70-year career, including charcoal, crayons, colored pencils, collages, graphite, gouache, ink, pastel, and watercolor.
Painting was the basis for Picasso's stylistic development at all stages. Picasso's father, an art teacher, influenced him to be exposed to drawing from an early age, and it is said that the first word he learned to speak was "piz", which is short for Spanish pencil (lápiz). He began formal training at the age of 7 and mastered the techniques of classical painting very quickly.
Pablo Picasso, "Dora Maar Dans Un Fauteuil d'Osier" paris1938, ink, charcoal and pastel on paper Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
Picasso's paintings reflect his lifelong pursuit of innovation and experimentation; it is also possible to observe his superb ability to transform between style, technology and medium. Driven by his innate understanding of lines, he developed an imaginative and experimental spirit in his paintings, and led innovative perspectives to create a fully new form of expression.
In the exhibition "Seventy Years of Painting", several works are created around Picasso's most famous work, les demoiselles d'avignon, and a painting now located in the Hermitage Museum, les trois femmes, which is an important work of the three-dimensional idea period after "The Girl of Avignon". These include les demoiselles d'avignon: nu jaune (Étude) from the Bergruen family collection in 1907, nu à genoux from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art collection in 1907-08, and nu debout, all of which show Picasso's geometric transformations in depicting the female body, and his unique broken style of paintings opened the way to Cubism. These watercolor paintings marked a complete break in history from the traditional painting's approach to moving figure composition and perspective, and these bold and confrontational forms became the pioneering points for the development of Cubism and modern art.
Pablo Picasso, "deux femmes aux chapeaux" fontainebleau, autumn 1921, pastel on paper private collection
Pablo Picasso, portrait de femme (dora maar), 1938, charcoal on paper, 30 x 22 1/4 inches (76.2 x 56.5 cm), private collection
Pablo Picasso, "portrait de femme endormie, iii", antibes 1946 pastel color crayons on paper, yageo foundation collection
In many of Picasso's works, the most common theme is the female head and bust, which is not only a context for us to explore the artistic change of style, but also a record of the various stages of Picasso's life and love. As the world knows, the artist's upheaval in style is mostly due to the emergence of new loves, the weakening of old loves, or the parallel situation of both. There are also many busts of women presented in the exhibition "Seventy Years of Painting Career", from early portraits of ancient sculptures, fragmentary Cubism, more natural and classical portraits, biomorphic surrealist abstract paintings, and later more amorous portraits. The early 1906 painting Buste de femme nue blended the face of his muse and mistress, Fernande Olivier, with his study of ancient Iberian masks and Romanesque sculpture; buste de femme 1907 reveals Picasso's growing interest in African masks, which had a profound impact on his later development of Cubism; 1921's Buste de femme reveals picasso's growing interest in African masks, which had a profound impact on his later development of Cubism. Tête de femme is a reflection of the artist's post-World War I study of classical sculpture and art history during his marriage to Olga Khoklova, while portrait de femme endormie, iii (1946) chronicles his passionate love affair with Françoise gilot and his fierce rivalry with Henri Matisse.
Pablo Picasso, "Homme à la pipe assis dans un fauteuil" paris, 1916, gouache, watercolor and charcoal mounted on canvas private collection.
Works on display include works from the art institute of chicago, the cleveland museum of art, fondation beyeler, the metropolitan museum of art, and the Morgan Library and Museum Morgan library & museum), Moma, New York, the museum of fine arts, houston, the solomon r. guggenheim museum, faba art foundation.
There will also be a hardcover catalogue for the exhibition, containing commentaries by historian and curator Olivier Berggruen and historian Christine Poggi.
Pablo picasso
pablo picasso
(1881-1973)
Pablo Picasso is arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century, constantly innovating and developing modern art throughout his career, using a wide range of media for diverse creations such as paintings, drawings, sculptures, pottery and printmaking. Born in Spain in 1881 as the son of an art teacher, Picasso exhibited his first painting in Barcelona at the age of 12. After his early tour of Paris, he left Barcelona in 1904 and permanently moved to France until his death in 1973.
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