“Jacqueline as a Bride” by Pablo Picasso
While strolling the MoMA, I couldn’t help but get struck by one of Picasso’s works called, “Jacqueline as a Bride”. The picture in this post doesn’t do it any justice – as seeing it in real life gives this work the credit it deserves…
Jacqueline as a Bride
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Aquatint, drypoint, and engraving
In 1943 Picasso met Françoise Gilot, a young aspiring painter; she moved in with him in 1946. This was an optimistic time of renewal in France, after the end of World War II, and the couple’s early years together, spent mostly in the South of France, seem to have been idyllic. The couple separated in 1953. Gilot returned to Paris with their two children, who were born in 1947 and 1948.
“The artistic genius of Pablo Picasso has impacted the development of modern and contemporary art with unparalleled magnitude. His prolific output includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets and costumes that convey a myriad of intellectual, political, social, and amorous messages. His creative styles transcend realism and abstraction, Cubism, Neoclassicism, Surrealism, and Expressionism. Born in Malaga, Spain, in 1881, Picasso studied art briefly in Madrid in 1897, then in Barcelona in 1899, where he became closely associated with a group of modernist poets, writers, and artists who gathered at the café Els Quatre Gats (The Four Cats). Even into his eighties and nineties, Picasso produced an enormous number of works and reaped the financial benefits of his success, amassing a personal fortune and a superb collection of his own art, as well as work by other artists. He died in 1973, leaving an artistic legacy that continues to resonate today throughout the world.”
(by James Voorhies – Department of European Paintings – Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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