Pablo Ruiz Picasso

[Steve Carlton]

Homme et Femme - 1969 version. Painted when Picasso was 88 years old.




Warned by friends and family of impending disaster, and yet propelled by a breathless sense of urgency that pervaded Paris in the wartime years, Gilot threw herself into a decade-long relationship with Picasso. “It was a time when everything was lost; a time of death. So: do I want to do something before I die, or not?…It was – let’s do something right away!” A relationship with him, Gilot concluded famously in her 1964 book Life with Picasso, was a “catastrophe I didn't want to avoid.”

Gilot exerted a profound influence on Picasso’s work: much more than merely a muse and companion, Picasso’s biographer John Richardson acknowledged that “Picasso took from her rather more than she took from him” and Picasso produced an impressive body of work testifying to the joy of the years he spent with Gilot and their two children, Claude (b. 1947) and Paloma (b. 1949). Gilot was more than Picasso’s intellectual equal, and she recorded the ups and downs of their life together with a detached and humorous eye that only served to emphasise the unmistakable genius behind the myth, a force of nature whose compulsive, subversive creativity bordered on the magical.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/picassos-madonna-portraits-of-francoise-gilot

[javadog]

Originally Posted by speeder

Some really sophisticated art patrons here.

There's a few of us, our knuckles don't quite drag the ground unless it's been a long day.

[Crowbob]

Skull with its Lyrical Appendage Leaning on a Night Table which should have the Exact Temperature of a Cardinal’s Nest. S.Dali, 1934.

[Steve Carlton]

^ That's cool. More, Bob!

[Crowbob]

One of my favorites. Hallucinogenic Toreador, 1968-70. Note the Bull lower left and the dog lower center. Dali loved double-images. There’s lots of imagery here. The little kid lower right is a self-portrait. The woman’s face upper left is his beloved Gala with whom Dali was never without because she kept him from going completely off the rails:

[astrochex]

Originally Posted by speeder

Some really sophisticated art patrons here.

Patrons or fans? If someone here was a Picasso patron, thats a whole nother story.

Originally Posted by Crowbob

Skull with its Lyrical Appendage Leaning on a Night Table which should have the Exact Temperature of a Cardinal’s Nest. S.Dali, 1934.

Was it so hard to keep this to just Picasso? Next, someone is going to be posting pictures of campbells soup cans.

[Steve Carlton]

Oooooooooooo... Andy Warhol!

[Steve Carlton]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Guitarist