In Gósol, a small village in the Pyrenees, around 160Kilometer to the North of Barcelona, has conjured up Pablo Picasso in 1906, his “Deux frères” on the canvas. Light-footed of the Older moves, and carrying the Younger on his back. Picasso (1881-1973) painted the picture with Pink and ochre colors and the Older a mask-like, but clearly marked her face missed, while the eyes and nose of the Younger blurred.

“Les deux frères” so interpret that here is the older brother of the naturalistic air of Picasso’s Blue period is not breathing, on his back, the cubist infant wears, the revolutionary career before. Seen in this way, the image that comes from the Kunstmuseum Basel, provides a focal point in Picasso’s early. In the Musée d’orsay, where until the beginning of January, the Blockbuster “Picasso, bleu et rose” will be shown, decorates it, to the giant of the entrance portal of the exhibition-like enlarged.

highlight of the early work

One of the Central images of this is the audience in droves, appealing Look, the changes in February in the Fondation Beyeler, the gorgeous “La Vie” of 1903, which comes from the Cleveland Museum of Art. This image is often referred to as the highlight of the Early works in which Picasso and his image motifs stuck mainly with the blue color.

In Paris depends on the capital work in one of the last rooms of the exhibition. Thanks to a clever set gap in the walls of the exhibition architecture you spotted the naked Couple and the mother with child in front of the blue base at the entrance. The image can be understood as a representation of the life cycle, will become a target and a compass in Picasso’s early work, which is laid out in a stupendous density in front of the eyes of the visitors.

year to year, the exhibition of narrative works. Begins with the Eklektizisten Picasso. Painted, mostly drug-dependent people blue shows abound. Very important is the suicide of his friend Casagemas, the the Melancholy-facing painting in addition to the Tragic tightened. Then there are the famous images that tell the story of the world of the Commedia dell’arte and the circus will follow. Only during his stay in Gósol in the summer of 1906 it Pink and to displace the ochre colors the predominant Blue in Picasso’s painting.

“Le Portugal” (1911-1912) by Georges Braque. Photo: Succession Picasso, ProLitteris, Zurich 2018, Kunstmuseum, Basel

And all of a sudden we stand in front of the of 1906 in Gósol incurred, made of rough-framed triangles of composite self-portrait. With a pair of Nude women who look as if they were screwed out of geometric shapes together, it would have fit well in the exhibition “Le Cubisme” at the Centre Pompidou.

in Paris, and soon also in Basel there is a Picasso in a double pack: While the Musée d’orsay, the still in the 19th century. Century-rooted Picasso is dedicated to, showing at the Musée National d’art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou with cubism the first of the great art revolution of the 20th century. Century, the changes in the coming March in slimmed-down Form to the Kunstmuseum Basel.

One can understand the cubism exhibition as a logical complement to Picasso’s early work. You are not told, of course, only the story of the master, but opens the view, framed his paintings and sculptures, placing them and foils them comrades-in-arms with the works of about a dozen, so that a many-voiced choir. The origin of cubism, the exhibition in Paul cézanne’s “Cinq Baigneuses” – again a picture from Basel, built between 1885 and 1887, as well as in an exquisite range of African statues, whose mask – affected-like faces of the Cubists. When comparing these two works of a religious origin with those of the Cubists, and the cultural syncretism of Picasso and Braque, is not directly tangible: at the beginning of the first great art revolution of the 20th century. Century, an Assimilation of the cultural masterpieces from the colonies?

fragmentation

The exhibition, the theme is not in-depth. For this, she takes us into a large hall, whose paintings are dedicated to the Decomposition of the female body as saturated Picasso and Braque quasi in the competition. Afterwards, they surrounded us with a bunch of still life, which, again, are dominated by a Basel-based image, namely Picasso’s great “Pain et Compotier aux fruits sur une table” (1908/09).

Finally, you stand in front of a dozen large formats of Picasso and Braque, presented in Paris under the title “fragmentation of the homogeneous Form”. It is mostly portraits, painted in brown and grey tones to break down in a never-before-seen radicalism of the human figure and assemble. The route through the exhibition leads to Colorful, Delaunay, Léger, Picabia and Chagall, which are fascinating begotten transmission to the sculptures of Brancusi. Thereafter, the cubist paintings of letter to be infiltrated. Later, the collages, the break-up of the framed picture in the direction of sculpture.

for the last Time in color

And for the last Time, it may be colored with a huge frieze of Sonia Delaunay before the war forces the young artists movement in the knee: drawing folders from the Front, the disabled, and war invalids are proficient in the illustrative sheets, which were produced by the artists in the war.

It is a sad irony of history that the war has brought this revolutionary art movement, a particularly cruel manner on the ground of reality: not to he Added to the soldiers of those injuries that had previously taught the artist in a playful way, of their painted figures?

“Picasso, bleu, rose,” Muséed’orsay, Paris, until 6. January 2019. “Picasso blue and rose period”, Fondation Beyeler, 3. February to 26. May.”Le Cubisme”, Centre Georges Pompidou, to 25. February 2019. “Cosmos Cubism”, The Kunstmuseum Basel, 30. Märzbis 4. August. (editor-in-Tamedia)

Created: 12.12.2018, 18:09 PM