Picasso

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Amid the many books on
Picasso, this is the first in English
to examine his Barcelona
background and the formative
years as an artist between 1897
and 1905. Sir Anthony Blunt,
Professor of the History of Art
at London University, and Phoebe
Pool have made an unusual and
original study which will be of
equal interest to laymen, students
and scholars. By confronting
many of Picasso's pictures with
those of other artists, they have
revealed many unexpected
influences on his work, as well
as showing how he transformed
particular examples into new and
original creations of his own.
Besides his well-known debts to
Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin and
Van Gogh, there is equally
interesting evidence of his
relationship to Isidro Nonell, the
English Pre-Raphaelites, Edvard
Munch, Eugene Carriere, the
draughtsman Steinlen and the
great Mannerists of the sixteenth
century. The young Picasso is
shown as a product of the
colourful 'Modernist' movement
in Barcelona,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Amid the many books on
Picasso, this is the first in English
to examine his Barcelona
background and the formative
years as an artist between 1897
and 1905. Sir Anthony Blunt,
Professor of the History of Art
at London University, and Phoebe
Pool have made an unusual and
original study which will be of
equal interest to laymen, students
and scholars. By confronting
many of Picasso's pictures with
those of other artists, they have
revealed many unexpected
influences on his work, as well
as showing how he transformed
particular examples into new and
original creations of his own.
Besides his well-known debts to
Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin and
Van Gogh, there is equally
interesting evidence of his
relationship to Isidro Nonell, the
English Pre-Raphaelites, Edvard
Munch, Eugene Carriere, the
draughtsman Steinlen and the
great Mannerists of the sixteenth
century. The young Picasso is
shown as a product of the
colourful 'Modernist' movement
in Barcelona, influenced by
anarchism and the ideas of
Nietzsche and the 'decadents'
of the 'nineties. The literary
background in France,
particularly Picasso's friendship
with Max Jacob, Guillaume
Apollinaire and André Salmon
is used to throw light on his
paintings of the Blue and Pink
period and on his determination
to create a new idiom worthy of
the twentieth century. The impact
of Picasso on twentieth century
painting from 1907 onwards
makes this an important work
for all interested in contemporary
art. Vissza