Picasso
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Tradotto da: Paola Merla
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Pablo Picasso appartiene a quella ristretta cerchia di personalità capaci di segnare con il proprio passaggio un'intera epoca. Così nel panorama artistico del '900 sembra quasi rappresentare l'emblema, l'essenza stessa della pittura. Pure, proprio da una fama tanto largamente diffusa può nascere il rischio di una conoscenza che tende a cristallizzarsi nello stereotipo. Merito di Patrick O'Brian, che alla personale conoscenza di Picasso unisce un sicuro dominio della letteratura sull'argomento e uno sguardo critico sorprendentemente originale, essere riuscito ad articolare in un avvincente racconto l'immensa quantità di materiale a sua disposizione. Infanzia e adolescenza in Catalogna, i primi soggiorni a Barcellona e Parigi, le tappe che segnano l'evoluzione artistica, gli affetti, le amicizie, gli incontri decisivi con Braque, Matisse, Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Cocteau, Aragon, Malraux, tutto concorre a delineare la trama di un'esperienza creativa strepitosamente longeva, vissuta con un'intensità al limite dello spasimo.
- ISBN: 885025847X
- Casa Editrice: TEA
- Pagine: 576
- Data di uscita: 26-11-2020
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I started this biography in French before realising that it had originally been written in English and finished it in the original. Patrick O'Brian does an amazing job of describing this greatest and most prolific of all 20th C artists who produced such a range of art that changed as he aged and mat Leggi tutto
The work is complete and it stays objective and careful about positing meaning from Picasso’s work or much that passed inside the artist’s mind. Of course, this sterility makes for a less interesting take on the Monster sacre. Only Michelangelo outstripped Picasso as an artist of talent, depth, and ve Leggi tutto
2.5 The descriptions of the phases and evolution of Picasso’s work suffered immensely for the lack of illustrations. An exhaustive catalog is not required, but how about 10-20 of those on which the author lavished paragraphs upon paragraphs of interpretation? This biography significantly expanded my k Leggi tutto
In preparing for NatGeo's second season of its "Genius" series, I read O'Brian's biography of the iconic artisan. His Picasso is sometimes surly but always surreal; O'Brian apparently knew him. This "advantage" immeasurably helps shape this psychological/humanistic/artistic study of who was probably Leggi tutto
Probably 2.5 stars is more of an accurate judgement of my opinion on this book. Certainly, there is a lot of information contained within it and it is an obviously well-researched biography. Sometimes there are some interesting insights into the art and the artist. At times, it is especially good -
Very good and easy read biography of Picasso.This book contains facts about early sales of his work with prices of paintings and stuff like that and that to me is very interressting because it shows that to those who understood that this was to become great art they really discovered one of the grea Leggi tutto
I’ve been reading this book for a long time, too long. It’s again made me reflect on the problems of biographies: the familiar pattern of a life can make them boring; how much detail to provide (usually too much in my experience); and how to keep the story moving along when lives are full of unrelat Leggi tutto
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