©Пабло Пикассо - Женщина с книгой 1932

The rescue 1932 Woman in red armchair 1932 Woman on the beach 1932 Woman with book 1932 Woman with flower 1932 Bacchic scene with minotaur 1933 Farmer's wife on a stepladder 1933
Пабло Пикассо - Женщина с книгой 1932

Женщина с книгой 1932
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The Norton Simon Foundation
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From The Norton Simon Foundation:
Among portrait painters of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso was the one most visibly influenced by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. It was from Ingres that Picasso could best harness, and then synthesize, the linear abstractions and stringent realism subtly explored by the neo-classical artist, arriving at a careful balance that proved fundamental to the twentieth-century artist’s work. In Woman with a Book the connection is made explicit. Basing his work on one of Ingres’s extraordinary portrait of Ines Moitessier, Picasso transforms the earnestness of the mid-nineteenth century sitter into a dreamy portrait of his current lover, Marie-Thérèse Walter (1909–1977). The chromatic riot and the web of thick black lines describing the simplified forms of both her bourgeois interior and her ripe sexuality contrast with the dreamy mystery of the sitter’s gaze. In so doing, Picasso has, to be sure, updated the genre—highlighting at once the push and pull between realism and abstraction that lies at the heart of twentieth-century portraiture and of modern art over all.