Pablo Picasso Portrait of Franèoise 1946
in secret
be quiet say nothing
except the street be full of stars
and the prisoners eat doves
and the doves eat cheese
and the cheese eats words
and the words eat bridges
and the bridges eat looks
and the looks eat cups full of kisses in the orchata
that hides all with its wings
the butterfly the night
in a cafe last summer
in Barcelona—Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso: Portrait of the Artist’s Parents II (1924)
Pablo Picasso, Head, 1927
Pablo Picasso, Pedro Mañach, 1901
Picasso in his studio.
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Pablo Picasso - Femme se peignant, 1940.
Gertrude Stein next to her portrait by Picasso
lane:
For some reason I’ve never been the biggest fan of cubism. Recently, though, I saw part of a documentary on Netflix streaming called Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies. It gives cubism this amazing context in the way it relates to early silent films, and what a leap moving images were terms of how movement was perceived.
Suddenly I saw the works in this entirely different light, and the beauty of these fragmentations clicked for me in a major way. I want to go back soon and watch the full documentary to give it some extra thought in relation to some concepts I’ve been thinking about in my own work. I should also walk down to Powell’s one day soon and fondle some pretty art books.
Pablo Picasso, Standing Female Nude, 1910
Charcoal on paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Picasso’s 1942 painting Buste de Femme will be on loan to an art academy in the West Bank.
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