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Pablo Picasso, father of Cubism, painter of 'Guernica', but chiefly is an artist of 'Eros and Tanathos': women, bullfights, culinary pleasure, the sun and the sea. A gifted man, thoroughly down to Earth, and blessed with an indomitable lust for life. With half of his career already behind him and at the peak of his fame, he began working in clay. The sensuality and pliability of the material made the Master passionate for the medium. In barely ten years he modelled, scratched, indented and distorted to create an extensive body of ceramic work. This book reveals how Picasso conjured up animals, women, flowers and entire bull-fighting arenas out of plates, pitchers, vases and dishes. Each subject depicted on canvas or paper w appeared in clay, but even more intense as he already saw a female form in the vase itself, or a face in a plate, or a sun-drenched arena in a dish. Ceramic is Picasso in 3D - painting and sculpture come together. The illusion of the flat plane dissolves into the three-dimensional quality of the clay. Interest for Picasso's ceramics has increased dramatically in recent decades. Rightly so, as his significance for modern art lies t only in his invative styles of painting. Picasso's ceramics reveal an uninhibited use of materials. As a result, even to this day he provides artists with an inspirational spur and his many admirers with a visual gift. The text is in Dutch and English.Product Identifiers
PublisherWaanders BV, Uitgeverij
ISBN-109040083150
ISBN-139789040083150
eBay Product ID (ePID)95761946
Additional Product Features
Place of PublicationZwolle
Spine14mm
Content Note80col 10b&W
Out-Of-Print Date22/11/2010
FormatHardback
LanguageDutch & English
Author(s)Titus M Eliens
Date of Publication01/02/2007
SubjectIndividual Artists / Art Monographs
ImprintWaanders Bv, Uitgeverij
GenreIndividual Artists / Art Monographs
Country of PublicationNetherlands