Pablo Picasso Documentary: Magic (Birth to 1916)

Pablo Picasso Documentary: Magic (Birth to 1916)

 

 

게시일: 2016. 12. 21.( By Barry White )

This 53-minute episode covers the period from Picasso's birth to 1916.

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Biographer Richardson tours the locations of Picasso's early life, but starts with the Château de Castille near Avignon where he and Douglas Cooper had once hosted the painter and his coterie in the 1950s. Contemporaneous paintings are presented and discussed while sites with family associations, such as the Cathedral of Málaga (where he was born) and the Moorish Castle ("his playground"), are visited. Chilly La Coruña, where the Picasso family relocated, is briefly glimpsed before moving on to Barcelona where he lived beginning in 1895. Richardson chats with descendants of Picasso's associates there at Els Quatre Gats (4 Cats), the legendary tavern and brothel that was the focal point of his life then.

Picasso's true bohemian life began in 1900 in Montmartre, Paris, where his best friend Carlos Casagemas — poet, painter, addict — committed suicide the next year and influenced some of Picasso's important early works. Picasso’s gang gathered at the Lapin Agile (poets Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob, various women). During this time the persistent themes of the harlequin and masks emerged in Picasso’s work (e.g., The Saltimbanques).

In 1904, he moved to a ramshackle, wooden warren of rooms known as Le Bateau-Lavoir ("the Acropolis of Cubism"). There he met the model Fernande Olivier ("La Belle Fernande"), who became his muse. They took opium and vacationed at Gósol, Spain, where the local red limestone showed up in the colors of his "Rose Period" paintings. Fernande’s image morphed from that of a classical goddess to an Earth Mother after Picasso’s exposure to prehistoric Iberian sculpture.

It was the then virtually unknown El Greco painting Opening of the Fifth Seal, along with a visit to the African tribal masks in the Trocadéro Ethnographical Museum, that combined to inspire the epoch-making Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). The centrality of tribal art, and its magical functions, had the most profound impact on Picasso. Over seven years, he and Georges Braque also invented Cubism.

 

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