Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906

by Marilyn McCully (Editor), Pablo Picasso (Artist)

Shows and describes some of Picasso's earliest artwork and discusses influences on his work

Genres: Art

374 pages, Hardcover

First published March 27, 1997

Reviews

[Kendall Gill]

A selection of essays on Picasso's early works, leading up to his painting of les demoiselles d'avignon.

Quotes that I really liked from this book -

"Picasso said of himself" 'A tenor hits a note higher than that written in the score - I!'; 'God is really another artist... like me'; 'I am God, I am God, I am God.' Such grandiloquence is bewildering and delusional, but it enabled Picasso to 'kill [his]...father.' In the process of committing the "crime," Picasso produced some of his most compelling works and revealed an essential aspect of his creativity that would always be a concern an active engagement with art history." (page 296)


"Many artists make changes as they work, but Picasso thoroughly intertwined process and image. In his words, 'a picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done, it changes as one's thoughts change." (page 304)

"...'When you begin a picture, you often make some pretty discoveries... In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it but rather transforms it, condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of the discarded finds." (page 306)

[R.Friend · Rating 4 out of 5]

Terrific exhibition, terrific exhibition catalog.

[Cindy]

for Garys mother