The Life and Works of Picasso

by Nathaniel Harris

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

Unknown Binding

Reviews

[Adam Dawson · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 / 5 for 'The Life and Works of Picasso' by Nathaniel Harris

At only 79 pages long, I never expected this book to go too in-depth into either Picasso's life or his artwork, and my expectations were indeed correct. Like this author's book about Dali, this is nothing more than an introduction to Picasso and a brief overview of his major works.

All paintings were reproduced in colour which is good, and the majority are given a fair bit of page space, so we can enjoy looking at them. It would have been nice to get some more information though; both about the artist and his works. This book is very light and superficial when it comes to its text.

This is a good, but not great, very brief introduction to Picasso, and no more than that. It's like showing you the above-water tip of an iceberg but ignoring the gigantic remaining block of ice hidden under the waves.

Good, but extremely superficial.

3 / 5

[Dora · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just got this book to read up on this artist since I'm going to have a look at his exhibition in a few days :) had to do my homework ^^ the book is written in a simple enough manner with nice visual examples. Kudos!