"Picasso. Una biografía" de John Richardson explora la vida del artista a través de su amistad con él, diarios personales y acceso a su estudio. Este primer volumen, con más de 700 fotos, abarca su juventud en España y su formación en París, así como sus relaciones con figuras clave del arte. Una obra fundamental.
Picasso: Una vida Serie
Esta biografía exhaustiva se adentra en la vida y obra de uno de los artistas más influyentes del siglo XX. Con un acceso sin precedentes a la vida personal, el estudio y los documentos del artista, el autor ofrece una exploración íntima y detallada de su viaje creativo. La serie entrelaza análisis artísticos perspicaces con anécdotas personales, presentando un retrato multifacético del hombre detrás de las obras maestras icónicas. Es una lectura esencial para cualquiera interesado en la historia del arte, la creatividad y la cautivadora historia del genio artístico.
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"My work is like a diary," Picasso once told John Richardson, who lived near the artist in Provence for a decade and became a trusted friend. This relationship allowed Richardson to observe and document how Picasso's art mirrored his life. With continued access to the artist's studios and archives through Picasso's widow, Richardson is uniquely positioned to write an insightful biography that transcends sensationalism and delves into the traumas and obsessions fueling Picasso's genius. He adeptly navigates the contradictions surrounding the artist, highlighting themes of ambivalence. Richardson reveals how Picasso's courage and terror, misogyny and tenderness, generosity and thrift, superstition and skepticism, cynicism and sentiment are reflected in his work's conflicts and paradoxes. His keen eye for the complexities of Picasso's art, combined with extensive cultural knowledge, illustrates how the artist drew from the past and the imaginations of his poet friends to forge a revolutionary synthesis. This first volume of Richardson's detailed four-volume study covers Picasso's life up to age twenty-five, detailing his struggle against his father's artistic legacy, his early successes in Barcelona and Paris, and the subsequent despair. It culminates in Picasso's realization of his role as the modern movement's messiah, supported by around nine hundred illustrations that vividly trace his artistic evolution.
A Life of Picasso
- 512 páginas
- 18 horas de lectura
The first volume of this biography emphasized Picasso's Spanish roots from Malaga to Barcelona. This second volume covers ten pivotal years of Picasso's life. It describes his relationship with Cocteau, his affair with Fernande Olivier, and the influence of women on his art.
The author introduces material on the artist's early training in religious art, and establishes his passion for Barcelona and Catalan "modernisme". There are also portraits of Apollinaire, Max Jacob and Gertrude Stein who made up "The Picasso Gang". The book won the 1991 Whitbread biography award.