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Jan 13, 2018 · Why Picasso’s Guitar Series? Most art historians credit the Guitar series as the definitive transition from Analytic to Synthetic Cubism. However, the guitars launched so much more.
Pablo Picasso and the new language of Cubism. by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Pablo Picasso, The Guitarist, 1910, oil on canvas, 100 x 73 cm (Centre Pompidou, Paris)
Guitar, 1914 by Pablo Picasso. To create Guitar Picasso made a radical leap from the sculptural tradition of modeling (carving or molding) to a new technique of assemblage. He created a first version of Guitar from cardboard in 1912, then later remade the work in sheet metal; the modern ordinariness of both of these materials is very different ...
The Old Guitarist is probably the most iconic painting of Picasso's Blue Period when he was living in poverty and emotional turmoil. The painting is also notable for the ghostly presence of a mysterious image painted underneath.
The Old Guitarist is an oil painting by Pablo Picasso, which he created in late 1903 and early 1904. It depicts an elderly musician, a haggard man with threadbare clothing, who is hunched over his guitar while playing in the streets of Barcelona, Spain.
When Pablo Picasso, leaving aside painting for a moment, was constructing this immense guitar out of sheet metal whose plans could be dispatched to any ignoramus in the universe who could put it together as well as him, I saw Picasso's studio, and this studio, more incredible than Faust's laboratory, this studio which, according to some ...
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- Beth Harris,Steven Zucker,Sal Khan
Like its cardboard predecessor, Picasso’s Guitar broke with the traditions of carved and cast sculpture. Its projecting planes, including the lower extension, create a sense of volume, generating real shadows rather than the rendered shading historically used to simulate depth in painted and graphic art.
