Picasso: A Biography by O'Brian Patrick

Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Itzy, Kickass.to
ISBN: 9780393344455
Amazon: B007MKCIHY
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1994-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

Some of Picasso’s words in this interview, particularly those on research, are flatly contradicted by other remarks of his; but upon the whole this seems to be a most considered statement of his views, and it is one that he made to a friend of many years standing who neither irritated him nor tempted him to be paradoxical.

While he was still in Paris it is probable that he etched “La Source,” and possible that he made the lithographs called “La Coiffure” and “La Couronne de fleurs,” in all of which the slender forms, the graceful and indeed pretty lines of a more conventional neo-classicism make a strong contrast with the sculptural women of his painting. His drawing, his painting, and his social activities had left him little time for engraving or lithography, but he had abandoned neither, and in these last few years he had produced a score of plates, some of them portraits of Olga, Radiguet, and Paul Valéry; others, like the four lithographs published by Marius de Zayas in 1921, of fairly slender classical figures by the sea, with some beautiful horses. Although he began exact dating at least as early as the studies of his hands at Fontainebleau, he was not yet consistent, and much of this work cannot certainly be assigned to any one season nor even to any one year. Yet the general picture remains: that of a less ponderous neo-classicism making its appearance in drawing, lithography, and etching well before it does so in paint.

Cap d’Antibes, the peninsula that runs out into the Mediterranean between Juan-les-Pins arid Antibes, was then almost deserted: a few hotels and villas had sprung up, and the vogue for the Riviera in summer was just beginning, but Antibes itself was still essentially a fishing-village, and what industry it had was based on scent from the cultivated fields of flowers and from the aromatic herbs and bushes that grew all over the rocky headland and the wild country farther from the sea. It is difficult to imagine now, when one is faced with the flood of concrete, the aspiring urban towers, and the hordes of campers bathing cheek by jowl in a polluted soup to the sound of a million transistors while coaches deliver fresh swarms of pale Teutonic flesh to join the tight-packed sweating mass; but it must once have been a paradise. Picasso was happy there, much of the time: the sun poured its energy into him, and at intervals of bathing, eating, and talking with friends, he drew and painted a large number of serene and comely women, many harlequins and saltimbanques, and both Pan and people playing pan-pipes. The women are well-covered (he hated them skinny) but they are no longer massive and their faces are often pretty: most are still more or less classical, at least in their drapery, though the nudes might belong to any age. The saltimbanques never really belonged to our time, and although some of them now take on an eighteenth-century

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