Picasso

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PICASSO 1881-1907 Josep Palau i Fabre There can be no question that Pablo Picasso was the greatest artist of our century, one who takes his place in art history, along with Giotto, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Goya and Cézanne. Like those masters, Picasso was a genius who changed the art of his epoch. This beautifully produced volume - a fitting monument to the artist on the centennial of his birth - presents an almost complete catalog of Picasso's paintings and drawings from 1982, when he was eleven, to the epochmaking Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1907. A remarkable panorama is contained in these pages, which investigate the earliest of Picasso's celebrated "styles", including the sensitive and melancholy works of the Blue and Rose periods and culminating in the explorations and distortions of form and volume inspired by African art, works that shocked the whole world into a new way of seeing and that changed, almost overnight, centuries-old traditions of Western aesthetics. The seeds of... Tovább

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PICASSO 1881-1907 Josep Palau i Fabre There can be no question that Pablo Picasso was the greatest artist of our century, one who takes his place in art history, along with Giotto, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Goya and Cézanne. Like those masters, Picasso was a genius who changed the art of his epoch. This beautifully produced volume - a fitting monument to the artist on the centennial of his birth - presents an almost complete catalog of Picasso's paintings and drawings from 1982, when he was eleven, to the epochmaking Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1907. A remarkable panorama is contained in these pages, which investigate the earliest of Picasso's celebrated "styles", including the sensitive and melancholy works of the Blue and Rose periods and culminating in the explorations and distortions of form and volume inspired by African art, works that shocked the whole world into a new way of seeing and that changed, almost overnight, centuries-old traditions of Western aesthetics. The seeds of Cubism were herewith sown. Joscp Palau i Fabre is among Spain's leading experts on Picasso. The more than 1500 paintings and drawings he has selected offer an overview of Picasso's early art that will become a standard resource for years to come. In addition to the acknowledged masterpieces of the period, hundreds of drawings and sketches never before published trace Picasso's amazing artistic development. From ordinary beginnings in academic training, Picasso moves through many influences until the stamp of his own originality emerges full blown. Rarely has an artist's work received such extended documentation as has Picasso's in this impressive volume. The reproductions are arranged chronologically, and there is a selected bibliography, and a special appendix covering Picasso's academic years and his first exhibitions. Somé 250 works are reproduced in color for the first time, and an annotated catalog of the works provides invaluable information now for the first time available in one comprehensive volume. Vissza