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On the Beach, 1937 by Pablo Picasso. On the Beach (Bothinq) also draws upon aspects of Surrealism, Here we are once more confronted with two female forms constructed from an assemblage of peculiar biomorphic forms.
- Joy – Pablo Picasso
- Style – Claude Monet
- Space – David Cox
- Relax – Edgar Degas
- Surprise – Paul Gauguin
- Pleasure – Henri Matisse
- Children – Winslow Homer
- Crowd – James Ensor
- Reality – Eric Fischl
- Desperation – Martin Parr
If I had the chance to go to the beach now, this is probably how it would look. And this is just the first of our ten beaches in art. Picasso painted this small gouache panel in 1922 during his neoclassical period. This period in his career started after he visited Italy in 1917. We may call it the neoclassical period, but Picasso, as always, does ...
There is of course another way to go to the beach – in style. With umbrellas and proper chairs, keeping the sense of decorum. Monet painted here his wife Camille with a friend, Madame Boudin, wife of his mentor Eugene Boudin. There are grains of sand stuck to the paintwork, which means the painting was at least partially done on the spot. The frami...
What we often look for at the beach is space. People a bit further away from us and the amazing freedom of the vast sand, sea, and even vaster sky. The ability to breathe in deeply. David Cox painted a series of oils showing the beach at Rhyl in 1854 when he was seventy-one. Three of those paintings survived. Cox primarily painted with watercolors,...
This is the glorious moment on the beach when after the exertion of swimming and jumping through the waves we can lie down and relax. Not all of us may have a maid to brush our hair, but we can all enjoy the warm sand. To the right of the blanket, you can see the bathing suit stretched to dry. Degas was a great admirer of Japanese printsand adopted...
It is a surprise in art terms; I’m sure that when you saw Gauguin’s name and thought about our topic, you expected one of his Tahiti paintings. Instead, here we have the beach at Dieppe, from the early stage of Gauguin’s career. In 1873 Gauguin married Mette-Sophie Gad and in 1884 moved with her and the family to Copenhagen. There, he tried to make...
It’s so much more than just a beach. Matisse tried to pack in all the joys of life into this monumental painting. We have dancers on the beach, people lazily laying down and relaxing, making music, and making love. The curvaceous lines of women’s bodies are repeated in the arabesque lines of the tree trunks and branches, giving everything an aura o...
Okay, maybe they are no longer children, but this group of young women went into the water. Two of them came prepared, with their swimming caps on, but the third one must have rushed in on the spur of the moment, or maybe she was pushed in. She is now drying her dress, agitating the dog. The sitting girl looks at her with curiosity and maybe some g...
Now let’s go back to how the beach usually looks: crowded. I love the level of detail and satire in this work, with so many different people doing so many different and funny things. It’s almost like a vicious version of Where’s Wally?Look to the bottom right corner, at how one of the kids tries to power the little sailboat, pretty inventive. We ha...
If Ensor’s piece was already a bit disturbing our dream of the beach, Fischl makes us face reality head-on. Yes, we all had plans for our beach bodies, and yes, nothing came out of it. Rarely is there a perfect body on the beach. And no one cares, in the end, we go there not to show off, but to relax. Fischl is considered the painter of the suburbs...
Desperate times call for desperate measures and any space where there is sun can be used as a beach. One just has to use the imagination and construe the hum of the road as the crashing waves, the warm tarmac as the warm sand. This photo comes from The Last Resort, a series of forty photographs taken by Martin Parr in New Brighton, a beach suburb o...
It is unquestionably one of the icons of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Painted at Tremblay-sur-Mauldre, it explicitly recalls several works executed in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when Picasso depicted bathers built out of stiff, geometric forms.
Painted at Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre near Versailles, On the Beach is one of several paintings in which he returns to the ossified, volumetric forms in beach environments that appeared in his works of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
The Beach, III. In the early winter of 1932, Picasso made about twenty etchings of women at the beach, similar to a series of paintings he had made the previous summer. Although small in size, the prints possess a vitality that transcends the sheet.
Painted at Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre near Versailles, On the Beach is one of several paintings in which he returns to the ossified, volumetric forms in beach environments that appeared in his works of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
