According to the Financial Times News CorpFinally we focus on the hero of the story6 the month previous but less did the consensus 0As such we behave as if we were an order Considerations which lead all right in ChinaThe degradation of the environment is obviousShe still overshadowed in the past six months5 million thirty years ago today they are 3Its leaders were apparently able to reassure investorsBarack Obama leads all right to socialismPicasso died in 92 years. All this time was mainly used to paint, draw, engrave, carve, assemble about 30,000 works. An existence made a learned mixture romantic meetings that have affected the course of its creation and aesthetic research.
The star of the 20th century painting ensures an excellent level of attendance in museums course for good financial results. Hence the proliferation of exhibitions which are dedicated to him worldwide. In Paris, the Picasso Museum shows the collection of the Berggruen, the Albertina, Vienna merchant exposes his last years (with already records of visitors), and the Whitney Museum in New York his influence on American contemporary artists. March 11, it is the turn of Venice, just inaugurate in Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault property, an exhibition devoted to the years 1945 to 1948. As explains Pierre Daix, specialist of the subject, it is also a daunting period for the public, which is not used in his work ". Indeed, it discovers contrasting aspects of the painter. A good reason to visit. It was made possible by the closure of the Museum Picasso d'Antibes until 2008 work, which has strong works from this period. One hundred ten of them made the trip to Venice, supplemented by 140 other issues of personal and public collections.
Another woman
The purpose of the exhibition is to show how, at the end of the war, the artist shows his happiness, his release. The marketing is a little simplistic. Because Picasso is not a monolithic being. In its ongoing artistic quest is reflected mainly the passage of gay moments that take perhaps to his new life and extremely dark moments.
Pablo, the man who loved women, rose of Dora Maar, met in 1935 and known as the name of one of his paintings "weeping woman", to being more playful and younger, Françoise Gilot, young painter just see it in his shop, and who first refuses his advances. As soon as Picasso has a new conquest, it appears on the canvas.
If Dora Maar had its large black eyes, his nose and his medium length hair, Françoise, she appears in the paintings of 1945 as a winding creature marked by red-brown hair and a big chest. It recognizes in the centre of the most famous table to the exhibition, "La Joie de vivre", 1946. It's a long canvas of 2.5 metres on bottom of volutes light blue and dark blue. The Lady dances in an enchanted bacchanale of animals that play music. Found, among other things, in a white hieratic portrait on a yellow background, the only table in the exhibition belongs to François Pinault.
But the most fascinating of this exhibition is to demonstrate inventiveness of the artist. Picasso seeks. It is with Terra cotta since that he met in Vallauris, Suzanne Ramié, owner of a workshop which manufactures ceramics. Palazzo Grassi shows deployment of forms in three dimensions. Parts, mostly large format, are spectacular. There is the "standing Bull" land u mass backwards highlighted a line of black paint and horns in its Summit, "Coated Cabri", the Assembly of a vase at anse and one species of calabash painted in white, yellow, and black, and even the "Tanagra long neck", elongated mud colored lines reminiscent of a woman's body. During this period, Picasso willingly uses plywood as his compositions and replaces the white paint by the fibre cement in which he traces in thickness contours of his figures with thick black lines. Two watercolours unpublished, private collections, also show abstract research of curves and triangles on blue sky background. Picasso said however that abstraction does not exist. Knowledge of the profuse work of the master of Malaga is endless...
