Picasso's Variations on the Masters

Picasso's Variations on the Masters
Author: Susan Grace Galassi
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Throughout his life, Picasso turned to the work of earlier masters for inspiration, making paintings, drawings, and prints after their compositions. Susan Grace Galassi, a specialist on Picasso, discusses the most significant examples of these works

A Picasso Portfolio

A Picasso Portfolio
Author: Deborah Wye
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780870707803

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Picasso: Themes and Variations" held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., Mar. 24-Sept. 6, 2010.

Picasso's One-liners

Picasso's One-liners
Author: Pablo Picasso
Publisher: Artisan Publishers
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Picasso's "one-liners" constitute a small but delightful contribution to the artist's great body of drawings. Although his prominence as a draughtsman has long been recognized, the unique nature of Picasso's one-liners has never been fully examined, or collected before in a single volume. These 50 drawings offer a fascinating look at this whimsical side of the artist's work. Color throughout.

Matisse and Picasso

Matisse and Picasso
Author: Jack D. Flam
Publisher: Westview Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2003-02-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780813365817

Chronicles the competition and mutual respect shared by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, with details of their divergent but equally passionate and influential lives.

Picasso

Picasso
Author: Gertje Utley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300082517

The fact that Picasso joined the French Communist Party in 1944 and remained a loyal member to the end of his long life presents puzzling contradictions. How can the image of him as a protean genius be reconciled with his membership in a repressive political organization that maintained an authoritarian hold on its artistic community and all but obliterated the freedom of the creative mind? How could the creator of Guernica, lauded at that time as the champion of civilian victims of totalitarian aggression, support the policies of the Soviet Union? This stimulating book is the first comprehensive examination of Picasso’s political commitment, his motivations to join the French Communist Party, and his contributions as an active member. Gertje R. Utley assesses the impact communism had on the artist’s life and explores how Picasso’s political beliefs and the doctrines of the Communist Party affected his artistic production. Utley provides the first account in English of the intricate relations between the French Communist Party and its artists in the years immediately following the Liberation. She then examines in detail the role Picasso played within the Communist agenda, his financial and moral support, his active participation at Party events, and his artistic endorsement of the Party’s most important ideological positions during the Cold War years. Addressing Picasso’s unfailing loyalty in the face of both the Party’s untenable political positions and the opposition within the Party to his art, this book offers new insight into aspects of the artist’s thought and art that have been little considered before.

Picasso's Demoiselles

Picasso's Demoiselles
Author: Suzanne Preston Blier
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2019-12-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1478002042

In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied paintings. Drawing on her expertise in African art and newly discovered sources, Blier reads the painting not as a simple bordello scene but as Picasso's interpretation of the diversity of representations of women from around the world that he encountered in photographs and sculptures. These representations are central to understanding the painting's creation and help identify the demoiselles as global figures, mothers, grandmothers, lovers, and sisters, as well as part of the colonial world Picasso inhabited. Simply put, Blier fundamentally transforms what we know about this revolutionary and iconic work.

Picasso

Picasso
Author: Michael C. FitzGerald
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300089414

A study of Picasso's depictions of the artist's studio in paintings, drawings and prints throughout his career, showing how he found there a profound expression of the creative focus. Most of the book analyzes relevant paintings and drawings, and there is an essay on the painting "La Vie."

Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso's & Husain's Paintings. Part 3

Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso's & Husain's Paintings. Part 3
Author: Dr. Harpal Sodhi
Publisher: Harpal Sodhi
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2020-04-18
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s & Husain’s Paintings The book, “Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s and Husain’s Paintings”, is a projection of master minds in the field of art. It reveals about the creative works of art that are not just show pieces to adorn rich homes, museums and art galleries but to bring awareness about human attitude and cultural heritage. The projection of these works of art could lead to international integration and establish an amicable relationship between people of all communities and further form a peaceful global human society. This book Part 1 to Part 5 also serves the purpose of academic study for art scholars and art researchers all over the world In the entire book, “Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s and Husain’s Paintings,” light has been thrown on Picasso’s and Husain’s life and paintings. There is an analytical study of their works of art. The significant aspects dealt with in their paintings are creativity viewed through linear quality, forms, colors, pictorial composition, subject matter, styles, mediums, techniques, similarities and differences in their works of art. I consider myself to be fortunate to avail the opportunity to journey through a significant part of the life and works of these two great artists. Their contribution to the world of art is exemplary for many future generations. Picasso and Husain have proved that the aesthetic artistic trend of thought has no barriers and boundaries. The mind of an artist can reach any part of the universe and create wonders in the form of an art. Picasso’s and Husain’s immortalized paintings mesmerize the observer when their creative activity springs out in their paintings which speak in a silent language of forms and colors. An exposure to visual art in any form has proved to be a form of communication. Our global human society is divided by languages, customs, religions, economic developments and geographical locations, but the visual language in the form of paintings of artists all over the world have united the global society by their creative activity. When an artist’s aesthetic sense is highly developed and his ability to grasp and display is superb he ultimately becomes a pioneer of a unique technique or style. Picasso’s cubism and Husain’s allegorical series of paintings in Husainean style are the products of the vigorous experiments with different mediums and techniques. It has been noticed that their works have a glimpse of the existing styles and techniques mingled with an antiquarian approach where the result is absolutely unique and creative. Their works of art are deemed to immortalize their names as the ever shining prominent stars in the sky of the world of art. There are total 226 illustrations in Part 1 to Part 5 of the ebooks that include a unique analytical study of the paintings and the sketches of the artists, Pablo Picasso and Maqbool Fida Husain. Dr.Harpal Sodhi

Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso's & Husain's Paintings, Part 3, Subject Matter & Styles

Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso's & Husain's Paintings, Part 3, Subject Matter & Styles
Author: Dr. Harpal Sodhi
Publisher: Harpal Sodhi
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2020-08-07
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The book, “Master Minds: Creativity in Picasso’s and Husain’s Paintings”, is a projection of master minds in the field of art. It reveals about the creative works of art that are not just show pieces to adorn rich homes, museums and art galleries but to bring awareness about human attitude and cultural heritage. The projection of these works of art could lead to international integration and establish an amicable relationship between people of all communities and further form a peaceful global human society. This book also serves the purpose of academic study for art scholars and art researchers all over the world. There are total 226 illustrations in Part 1 to Part 5 of the e-books that include a unique analytical study of the paintings and the sketches of the artists, Pablo Picasso and Maqbool Fida Husain. Part-3 of the book includes the study of subject matter and styles in the paintings of the artists. It has around 60 pages.

Picasso

Picasso
Author: Elizabeth Cowling
Publisher: National Gallery London
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This volume tells the story of Picasso's artistic development and his passionate relationship with the European art tradition.