Romanesque - Picasso (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788480432870)

This beautifully illustrated book, the catalog for an exhibition on view at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia in Barcelona and coorganized with the Picasso Museum in Paris, explores important affinities between Picasso and Romanesque art. Using two key moments as starting points, Juan Jos Lahuerta and Emilia Philippot first discuss the summer of 1906, when Picasso stayed in the village of G sol in the Catalan Pyrenees, and then turn to 1934, as he visited the Romanesque art collections of what is today the National Museum of Art of Catalonia.

Picasso's discovery of the Romanesque nurtured his interest in other "primitive" or ethnographic art, later echoed in such decisive works as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Importantly, while Lahuerta and Philippot avoid any attempt to trace direct Romanesque influences on Picasso--as they note, his work consistently escapes such linear accounts--they do demonstrate that Picasso's interest in the twelfth-century sculpture Virgin from G sol, his lifelong fascination with the theme of the crucifixion, and his study of the skull all reflect elements that were also of major importance in Romanesque art and architecture. What these shared features allow, Lahuerta and Philippot ultimately argue, is not only a richer understanding of Picasso's work, but also a rediscovering and reinvention of Romanesque art in our contemporary moment, causing the medieval to become refreshingly and paradoxically modern.

Author: Juan José Lahuerta, Emilia Philippot
ISBN-10: 848043287X
ISBN-13: 9788480432870
Publisher: Tenov Books
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2017
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 10.60h x 8.60w x 0.70d