Picasso Picabia. Painting challenged.
Somogy| N° d'inventaire | 21394 |
| Format | 24 x 28 |
| Détails | 280 p., 250 color ill., bound. |
| Publication | Paris, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782757214138 |
In a short-lived Dada piece entitled La Pomme de Pins, Picabia stated in 1922: "Picasso is the only painter I love." Is this a new illustration of Picasso's force of attraction and preponderant influence on a 20th-century artist? United by common southern origins, the Spaniard Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and the Frenchman with a Spanish-Cuban father, Francis Picabia (1879-1953), were closer than history has remembered - and for one reason at least: enjoying the same freedom of experimentation in art, their respective careers, however different they may be, were nothing more than a long break with the very idea of style - this so-called "unique mark of the creator in Western art. With Picasso and Picabia, the metamorphoses of the self are erected into a way of life. "A painter," said Picasso, "should only ever do what people expect of him. A painter's worst enemy is style." Picasso and Picabia never did what was expected of them. This exhibition is organized as part of "Picasso-Méditerranée," an international cultural event taking place from 2017 to 2019. More than sixty institutions have jointly devised a program around the "obstinately Mediterranean" work of Pablo Picasso. At the initiative of the Musée national Picasso-Paris, this journey through the artist's creation and the places that inspired him offers a unique cultural experience, seeking to strengthen ties between all shores.
In a short-lived Dada piece entitled La Pomme de Pins, Picabia stated in 1922: "Picasso is the only painter I love." Is this a new illustration of Picasso's force of attraction and preponderant influence on a 20th-century artist? United by common southern origins, the Spaniard Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and the Frenchman with a Spanish-Cuban father, Francis Picabia (1879-1953), were closer than history has remembered - and for one reason at least: enjoying the same freedom of experimentation in art, their respective careers, however different they may be, were nothing more than a long break with the very idea of style - this so-called "unique mark of the creator in Western art. With Picasso and Picabia, the metamorphoses of the self are erected into a way of life. "A painter," said Picasso, "should only ever do what people expect of him. A painter's worst enemy is style." Picasso and Picabia never did what was expected of them. This exhibition is organized as part of "Picasso-Méditerranée," an international cultural event taking place from 2017 to 2019. More than sixty institutions have jointly devised a program around the "obstinately Mediterranean" work of Pablo Picasso. At the initiative of the Musée national Picasso-Paris, this journey through the artist's creation and the places that inspired him offers a unique cultural experience, seeking to strengthen ties between all shores.