Picasso (Folio Biographies t. 210) (French Edition)
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"Je n'ai jamais considéré la peinture comme un art de simple agrément, de distraction. J'ai voulu par le dessin et par la couleur, puisque c'étaient là mes armes, pénétrer toujours plus avant dans la connaissance du monde et des hommes, afin que cette connaissance nous libère toujours davantage."Cubiste, Picasso ? allons donc ! Surréaliste ? Encore moins. Communiste ? Pas vraiment. Sans doute fut-il à l'origine du cubisme, proche pendant quelque temps des surréalistes et détenteur d'une carte du Parti communiste, mais le plus grand peintre du XXe siècle est irréductible à toute étiquette. Complexe, multiple, en constante métamorphose, artiste polymorphe et amant dynamique, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) n'eut, dans sa vie comme dans son oeuvre, d'autre loi que la sienne.
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A necessary book for anyone interested in European art from the 20th century and of course in the fascinating journey of a Spanish young man who became the ultimate incarnation of art.Gilles Plazy, writer, painter, photographer, wildly published in France, takes us from Malaga, Spain where Picasso was born to Mougins, France where he died. In between, an attempt to describe a man who knew at an early age that his destiny was unusual and understood, also at an early age, that art is a solitary quest that can't be taught.Picasso, through the eyes of Plazy, is shown as an artist before a man. In Grand-père, a memoir from her granddaughter Marina Picasso, we discover a man who was unable to love.Both books, in very distinctive ways, depict a man consumed by his artistic call.This untamable passion was the reason of Picasso's incapacity of love.This untamable passion produced the most extraordinary artwork of all times.