Picasso Portraits Portraits

Afbeeldingen

Artikel vergelijken

  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781855145429
  • 06 oktober 2016
  • 256 pagina's
Alle productspecificaties

Samenvatting

From first to last, Picasso's prime subject was the human figure and portraiture remained a favourite genre. His earliest portraits were done from life and reveal a precocious ability to catch likeness and suggest character and state of mind. By 1900 Picasso was producing portraits of astonishing variety and thereafter they reflected the full range of his innovative styles - symbolist, cubist, neoclassical, surrealist, expressionist. But however extreme his departure from representational conventions, Picasso never wholly abandoned drawing from the sitter or ceased producing portraits of classic beauty and naturalism. For all his radical originality, Picasso remained in constant dialogue with the art of the past and his portraits often alluded to canonical masterpieces, chosen for their appropriateness to the looks and personality of his subject. Treating favourite Old Masters as indecorously as his intimate friends, he enjoyed caricaturing them and indulging in fantasies about their sex lives that mirrored his own obsession with the interaction of eroticism and creativity. His late suites of free 'variations' after Velazquez's Las Meninas and Rembrandt's The Prodigal Son, both of which involve self-portraiture, allowed him to ruminate on the complex psychological relationship of artist and sitter, and continuities between past and present. When Picasso depicted people in his intimate circle, the nature of his bond with them inevitably influenced his interpretation. The focus of this book is not, however, Picasso's life story but his creative process, and, although following a broadly chronological path, its chapters are structured thematically. Issues addressed in depth include Picasso's exploitation of familiar poses and formats, his sources of inspiration and identification with favourite Old Masters, the role of caricature in his expressive conception of portraiture, the relationship between observation, memory and fantasy, critical differences between his portrayal of men and women, and the motivation behind his defiance of decorum and the extreme transformation of his sitter's appearance.

Productspecificaties

Inhoud

Taal
en
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
06 oktober 2016
Aantal pagina's
256
Illustraties
Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur
Elizabeth Cowling
Tweede Auteur
Pablo Picasso
Hoofduitgeverij
National Portrait Gallery

Overige kenmerken

Editie
1
Extra groot lettertype
Nee
Product breedte
230 mm
Product hoogte
26 mm
Product lengte
285 mm
Studieboek
Nee
Verpakking breedte
242 mm
Verpakking hoogte
30 mm
Verpakking lengte
294 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
1622 g

EAN

EAN
9781855145429

Je vindt dit artikel in

Taal
Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?
Boek
Studieboek of algemeen
Algemene boeken
Nog geen reviews

Kies gewenste uitvoering

Kies je bindwijze (2)

Prijsinformatie en bestellen

Niet leverbaar

Ontvang eenmalig een mail of notificatie via de bol app zodra dit artikel weer leverbaar is.

Houd er rekening mee dat het artikel niet altijd weer terug op voorraad komt.

Vaak samen gekocht

Lijst met gekozen artikelen om te vergelijken

Vergelijk artikelen