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PICASSO
PICASSO : Mosqueteros
If fortune finds you walking the streets of NYC before June 6, head over to the Gagosian on 522 W. 21st Street in Chelsea to see a fabulous Picasso exhibit.
http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/2009-03-26_pablo-picasso
On exhibition are works from the last ten years of Picasso's life, when he created with great ferocity.
Cigarette dangling from his lips, his creative pace surpassed that of his youth.
The exhibit fascinates the observer, who walks from painting to painting watching Picasso, a la the Cubist method, delve ever deeper into the world of the Mosquteros: the clowns, freaks, hobos, street performers who he loved.
In the last decade of his time on earth, Picasso expands his signature method, tackling familiar themes like sex, circus, aggression, age.
He no longer simply presents the many angles of a violin, as he did when he was young and first rocked the art world.
Now he depicts in one painting a multitude of expressions: different glints of the eyes, different contortions of the mouth, different twitches of the nose.
The result is a more developed, sophisticated body of work.
More fascinating is Picasso's use of painterly vocabulary to show the transition from one girlfriend to the next. So he will show two different faces in one, different colors of hair, different textures and impastos of skin tone; frowns get conjoined with smiles.
So if fortune does meet you in the Big Apple, take advatage of this rare exhibition. Buy yourself a Chimay, walk the streets, and head to the Gagosian.
If fortune finds you walking the streets of NYC before June 6, head over to the Gagosian on 522 W. 21st Street in Chelsea to see a fabulous Picasso exhibit.
http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/2009-03-26_pablo-picasso
On exhibition are works from the last ten years of Picasso's life, when he created with great ferocity.
Cigarette dangling from his lips, his creative pace surpassed that of his youth.
The exhibit fascinates the observer, who walks from painting to painting watching Picasso, a la the Cubist method, delve ever deeper into the world of the Mosquteros: the clowns, freaks, hobos, street performers who he loved.
In the last decade of his time on earth, Picasso expands his signature method, tackling familiar themes like sex, circus, aggression, age.
He no longer simply presents the many angles of a violin, as he did when he was young and first rocked the art world.
Now he depicts in one painting a multitude of expressions: different glints of the eyes, different contortions of the mouth, different twitches of the nose.
The result is a more developed, sophisticated body of work.
More fascinating is Picasso's use of painterly vocabulary to show the transition from one girlfriend to the next. So he will show two different faces in one, different colors of hair, different textures and impastos of skin tone; frowns get conjoined with smiles.
So if fortune does meet you in the Big Apple, take advatage of this rare exhibition. Buy yourself a Chimay, walk the streets, and head to the Gagosian.
