Pablo Picasso is considered one of the most important artist of the 20th century. His extensive oeuvre also includes paintings, drawings, sculptures how graphics, literature and ceramics. During his lifetime, he certainly influenced his close artist colleagues as well, how they him - especially since he lived with some colleagues in the famous Paris Bateau-Lavoir and shared its studios with them. So he worked with George Braque cubism, as well as his most famous works Guernica and created the Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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A utility object as an expression of unbridled creativity
In addition to these world-famous works of art, the approximately 3000 ceramics that Picasso made are little known, but not less significant. Originated these ceramics equally in an equally creative and almost experimental process, how he followed to his sculptures and paintings. Picasso's ceramics are not only a by-product of his artistic activity, but an artistic way to offer his creativity further expression.
He produced an enormous body of work with which he wanted to challenge the existing art system and . Because through the mixture of utility object and artwork he was able to find a way to glorify the art not about, but to let it flow into everyday life.
Picasso wanted to make his art accessible to a wide audience. His ceramics and especially the series editions allowed him to achieve this goal: through the form of utility ceramics.
During a pottery exhibition, the artist Suzanne and met Georges Ramie, the owners of the ceramic workshop Madoura. Picasso made his first experiments with ceramics. He used clay, created fauns and nymphs, decorated plates and plates with his favorite motifs how the bullfight, women, owls, goats, used unusual supports and himself developed a white clay.
Again and again in his ceramics can be seen how closely rooted Picasso with the millennia-old history of ceramics. From classical Greek vases with red and black figures to the Etruscan buccheri, the clay vessels of prehispanic cultures to the popular ceramics from Spain and France . Picasso knew the numerous ceramic objects of ancient Mediterranean cultures exhibited in the Louvre in Paris , owned many books on ancient art and drew his inspiration - both in terms of shapes and themes of much of his ceramics - from vessels with human or animal forms. The artist even created fictitious "ancient" ceramics and painted archaeological ceramic fragments.
A mirror of his career
At this point it is essential to note that that Picasso's ceramics refer not only on to the traditions of this art form, but also on to his own career as artist. Through various ceramics is clear how he uses his design experience as painter, engraver and sculptor and the corresponding motifs of his paintings, lithographs and drawings also in the shaping and painting of the stoneware. Likewise, he uses his newly gained experience from this work for works of art painterly form.
Thus, he also renewed the specially created motif of the dove, which he designed in 1949 as a poster for the Paris World Peace Congress, which until today is considered a worldwide symbol of peace. The already mentioned clay mass used the artist, to create our offered handle vessel in the form of a dove. This was painted polychrome with blue and black paint to suggest eyes, beak, wings and the overall body shape of the aerial animal.
The handle handle makes it possible, that the bird can be lifted up to use it as a vessel. Opened is it at the front head and at the rear inlet of the wing tips of the dove, so that water or other liquid can be filled and again poured out - according to the everyday purpose of the pottery.
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it We are therefore very pleased to offer you the ceramic 'Spanish pitcher' by Pablo Picasso in our upcoming presence auction. for Modern & Contemporary Art to be able to offer. The vessel is called at a limit of 8.000 €.
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