Contributor
Greenhalgh, Paul, 1955 October 21- editor.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintNorwich : Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, [2022]
Description111 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Note:Published to accompany an exhibition of the same title at the Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts, Norwich, UK (March 13 - July 17, 2022).
Note:Foreword / Jago Cooper -- Introduction / Paul Greenhalgh -- Pablo Picasso 1881-1914 / Natalie Baerselman Le Gros -- Picasso: the neural legacy from 'plasticity' to 'priming' / John Onians -- Modern drawings / Paul Greenhalgh -- Impetuous Picasso / Michael Cary.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:This book reveals that Pablo Picasso wasn't simply a figurehead of the Modern Age. He grew up in the 19th century: the extraordinary mixture of values that was fin de siecle Europe penetrated deep into his personality, remaining with him through his life. While he was the quintessential Modern in so many ways, he was also a Victorian, and this duality explains the complexity of his genius. He was simultaneously looking forwards and backwards, and feeding off the efforts of others, before developing his own idioms for depicting the contemporary world. The young artist recognised that society was increasingly in a process of transformation, not in a transitory or temporary way, but permanently, under the inexorable pressures of modernisation. He realised that the emergence of Modern art through the last quarter of the century was a product of this transformation. Throughout his life, Picasso would feel the tension between modernity and the histories it replaced. He would also struggle with the role of the individual, and subjectivity, in this new environment.0Each chapter shows how the young artist embraced successive styles at large in the art world of his time.
