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An artist's search for sources for the art work of Pablo Picasso.
Monday, August 17, 2015
16 Works cited
Works
cited:
Barr,
Alfred H. Picasso:
50 Years of His Art.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946. 272-273. Print.
Blunt,
Sir Anthony, and Phoebe Pool. Picasso:
The Formative Years: A Study of His Sources.
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1962. 5. Print.
Daix,
Pierre. Picasso.
New York: Praeger, 1965. 34. Print.
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17 Works cited
Works cited:
Daix, Pierre, and Georges Boudaille. Picasso: The Blue and Rose Periods. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1966. 22. Print.
Daix, Pierre, and Georges Boudaille. Picasso: The Blue and Rose Periods. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1966. 22. Print.
De
Salas, Xavier. “Some Notes on a Letter of Picasso.” The
Burlington Magazine CII 692 (1955): 483-84. Print.
Galassi,
Susan Grace. Picasso's
Variations n the Masters: Confrontations with the Past.
New York: Abrams, 1996. 20. Print.
Hamilton,
George Heard. Painting
and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940. New
York: Penguin, 144. Print.
Jennings,
William. “The Human Picasso – Blue Period Drawings at O'Hara
Gallery.” Apollo June 1960 188. Print.
Leymarie,
Jean. Picasso:
The Artist of the Century.
New York: Viking, 1972. 273. Print.
Lucas,
John. "Picasso as a Copyist.” Art News 54.7 1955 36-39. Print.
Parmelin,
Helene. Picasso
Says.
Trans. Christine Trollope. London: Allen, 1969. 43. Print.
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18 Works cited
Works
Cited:
Penrose,
Sir Roland. Picasso:
His Life and Work, 2nd ed. New
York: Schocken, 1962. 16, 39. Print.
“Picasso
on Picasso.” Time 16 June 1930. Print.
Pool,
Phoebe. “Sources and Background of Picasso's Art (1900-1906).”
The Burlington Magazine CI 674 (1959). 178. Print.
Pool,
Phoebe. “The Picasso Exhibition: The Most Important Four Rooms. The
Burlington Magazine 102 690 1960 387. Print.
Stein,
Leo. Appreciation,
Painting and Prose.
New York: Crown, 1974 174. Print.
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19 CHAP II
CHAPTER
II
Rose
Metaphors - 1905
Picasso's
mood started to change in 1905. His work was selling so well that the
dealer Vollard decided to represent him. Thus, he had the security of
a reputable dealer and financial success was a possibility. He
acquired many new friends and his studio became a meeting place for
the revolutionaries in art. He was living at this time with Fernande
Olivier who began to appear as a subject in his paintings during
1905. Fernande has been described as a beautiful girl with a
"healthy, positive attitude to life." Her influence in
Picasso's life is apparent in the paintings Picasso did of the circus
performers and their families. (Buckheim 32)
The
Cirque Medrano in Paris has attracted many artists. Degas,
Toulouse-Lautrec, Forain, Seurat and others were entertained there
and Picasso frequented the circus and delighted in meeting the
performers. Apparently, he felt close to them and their solitary way
of life as entertainers. He seldom pictured them in their
professional acts but preferred to show them in their family life and
surroundings. By this time, Picasso was using more pink and rose
coloring in his paintings. He shifted his emphasis from the old
beggars and harlots to more youthful subjects in attitudes which
expressed affection and family devotion.
The
numerous paintings of harlequins and the absence of many
self-portraits
at this time raises the question as to the possibility that the
harlequin, as symbol, represents Picasso. Sam Hunter wrote "Picasso's
stoic old saltimbanques and emaciated young acrobats with reproachful
eyes haunt us like a dream; they are the stuff of vision rather than
reality. They are, in fact, something in the nature of a metaphor for
Picasso's sense of his own artistic isolation"
(Hunter 188).
The
psychologist Carl Jung said that the harlequin may be Picasso in
disguise . Picasso had seen the "Mardi Gras" by Cezanne at
Vollard's and this painting may have sparked his interest in the
harlequin image. Watteau also did paintings of clowns which would
have been familiar to Picasso. Moreover, at the
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