We are now liberated from painting and sculpture just as we were liberated from the idiotic tyranny of academic genres. It's el guitare!'Īnd there you have it! The watertight compartments of art are demolished. Picasso dressed in the blue of a Parisian worker responded in his finest Andalusian voice: 'It's nothing. By clarifying planes, forms, and colour, the artist imparted to his Cubist paintings a classical expression (Saint-Raphal still lifes 1919 two versions of. They pointed a condescending finger at the object of Picasso's clever pains, and said: 'What is it? Does you put it on a pedestal? Does you hang it on a wall? Is it painting or is it sculpture?' Gris depicts Picasso, an innovator in the Cubist movement, with a paint palette in hand. Some visitors, already shocked by the things that they saw covering the walls, refused to call these objects paintings (because they were made of oil-cloth, packing paper and newspaper). Portrait of Pablo Picasso by Juan Gris is painted in the style of Analytic Cubism, with its deconstruction of subjects, simultaneous viewpoints, and limited color palette. I didn't even know what a new object could be. All the visible forms surrounding me appeared absolutely new.
More phantasmagorical than Faust's laboratory, this studio (which certain people might claim had no art in the conventional sense of the term) was furnished with the newest of objects. Leaving aside painting for the moment, Picasso built this immense guitar out of sheet metal with parts that could be given to any idiot in the universe who on his own might put the object together as well as the artist himself. "I have seen what no man has seen before in Picasso's studio. The Blue Period took place in 1901-1904 and was called the blue period because almost all his paintings had shades of blue in them (encyclopedia).
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