17 Mar 2021
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Pablo Picasso, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed
One starts by wondering – whether it is true that one drinks from a glass and ends with no longer knowing whether the glass exists Jean-Paul Sartre Pablo Picasso, “Two Women at the Bar/Prostitutes in a Bar”, Barcelona, 1902 Is it the murmur of absinthe that lures the visitors to the blue bar? Or some […]
01 Jan 2021
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Pablo Picasso
Life of Artist as a Human Being P. Picasso, “The Three Ages of Man”, 1942 One of the most horrifying wars in the history of humankind awakens Picasso to the problem of human essence in an artist more than the ordeals he was observing in life. For Picasso brooding over the question of what is […]
06 Dec 2020
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Pablo Picasso, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed
This ferocious drawing – “The Murder” is executed in a traumatic period of Picasso’s life. The two figures in the drawing are meant to represent – Marie-Therese Walter (the victim) and Olga Khokhlova (the assailant). Pablo Picasso’s Drawing “The Murder/Le Meurtre” (1934) Violence touches or impregnates numerous spheres of human life. It can be direct […]
22 Apr 2020
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Pablo Picasso, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed
Pablo Picasso, “Petals of Thinking”… It is not only that she has turned away from the world to a closed “consultations” with her loyal palm isolating her from the surrounding space. The point is that she is continuing to look at the world – she continues to be with the world not to lose contact […]
01 Jun 2019
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed
Leonardo da Vinci, “Profilo di capitano antico (Il Condettiero) – Leader of Mercenaries”, 1480 The aesthetics of militancy is not a goal in itself, but organic part of preparedness for war, for battle and for fight. Look at the leader of the mercenaries with his bloated posture of readiness to kill, with a furious lion […]
01 Dec 2014
Posted by Victor-Katia as Pablo Picasso, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed
When the Weak and Exhausted People/Birds “Amuse” By Their Helplessness the Prosperous, the Strong and the Predatory People/Cats P. Picasso, “Cat Catching the Bird” (1939)* [With a slightly dirtied sky] P. Picasso, “Cat Catching the Bird” (1939)** [With a light and transparent sky] P. Picasso, “Cat Catching the Bird” (1939)*** [With an intense and a […]
07 Aug 2014
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Pablo Picasso, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed
Four Aspects Of A Civilization Victimized By A Belligerent Fight For International Domination Picasso at the age of seven We entered a phase of art history in which beauty is of less importance to artists than the meaning they might convey through a work of art… works of art are embodied meanings. Arthur C. Danto, […]
01 Jan 2014
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed, Photographic art and posters analyzed, Rag-picker in Paris, 1901
When Health Is Stronger Than Strength, When Life Is More Powerful Than Power and Stubbornness Is Stronger Than Destitution Homo sacer (Latin for “the sacred man” or “the accursed man”) defines in early Roman religion somebody “set apart” from common society, who is, simultaneously is “hallowed” and “cursed”. The homo sacer could simply mean a […]