Matisse was at the height of his powers as the great innovator of colour and line when a young Picasso appeared in a blaze on the creative horizon, full of energy that curator Jane Kinsman calls “unstoppable and untameable”. Together, as NGA director Nick Mitzevitch says, their influence ...
Here, purity and innocence calmly win over aggression and adversity. The small, neatly dressed girl, in the bullring, holds up a symbolic protective candle, the image of the spiritual light of life from religious paintings, its light reaching out expressively in a halo. Around her are death,...
During the first half of 1932, Pablo Picasso devoted himself to painting a series of masterpieces portraying his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. Picasso had been completely besotted with this young blonde woman from their first meeting near the Galeries Lafayette in 1927.Le Reposforms a part of ...
I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree. ...
Broadly speaking, Picasso was known to make changes midway through a piece. Several works from the artist’sBlue Periodcontain hidden compositional elements: While working onThe Soup(1902), Picasso painted over several rejected elements, including awoman with her back to the viewer. He also painte...
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Comparing Filla’s Seated Woman with Picasso’s Dora Maar au chat (fig. 1), both painted in the 1940s, the similarities are striking. Both women command the picture plane, Dora sitting in a wooden chair and Filla’s inconnue posing in front of one. Foltýn created some of the finest...
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The subject is a female that looks to be in her early 20’s sitting upright on a large brown chair. If the viewer travels up the painting the first indication of the woman’s class is her satin, blue dress. The saturated blue shines and falls in the light like water. Paired with ...