Picasso Portraits

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Picasso’s portraits are matched to his fluctuating social circles in this take a look at the maestro’s evolution

From the beginning of his career until its end, Pablo Picasso’s prime subject was once the human figure, and portraiture remained a favorite genre for the artist. Picasso’s portraiture reflected the full range of his innovative styles–Symbolist, Cubist, Neoclassical, Surrealist, Expressionist. Depicting people in his intimate circle quite than working to commission enabled Picasso to take an expressive, radically experimental approach to making portraits.
However extreme his departure from representational conventions, Picasso never wholly abandoned drawing from the sitter or ceased producing portraits of classic beauty and naturalism. He remained in constant dialogue with the art of the past, and his portraits regularly alluded to canonical masterpieces. Treating favorite Old Masters as indecorously as his intimate friends, he created suites of free “variations” after Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” and Rembrandt’s “The Prodigal Son.”

These dizzying stylistic shifts of Picasso’s long career may also be traced through their manifestations in his portraits. Picasso Portraits tells this story thematically, with a focal point on Picasso’s creative process quite than his biography. Issues addressed in depth in this volume include Picasso’s exploitation of familiar poses and formats, his sources of inspiration a few of the Old Masters and the relationship between statement, memory and fantasy.

The legendary life and career of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) spanned nearly all the 20th century and ushered in some of its most significant artistic revolutions. Hard to overestimate in importance or originality, Picasso’s style is most likely best captured in the words of his friend Paul Éluard: “Picasso paints like God or the devil.”

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