Solidification of Innocent Ceramic Works
Picasso likes to combine the contours of women and animals. His flexible visual image and quick and wonderful grafting transformation have always made people shine, as if it were a reincarnation and generalization. We have to admire his extraordinary and peculiar imagination. At the end of his life, Picasso returned to the inspiration of primitive African woodcarving art and began to pay attention to primitive art, including the inspiration of early Delan African masks.
Picasso's graphic thinking almost never really left this passionate Mediterranean land. In the last 20 years of his life, his understanding and expression of myths, folk traditions and natural scenery became more and more perfect, and he designed a large number of decorative graphics himself, making innovations and breakthroughs in modeling posture and color, continuing to ponder the fun of combination in the two-dimensional and three-dimensional worlds, and further exploring the connection and significance between individuals and the universe.
Looking at Picasso's artistic achievements, ceramic art, as an important creative field, has strong inclusiveness and is a lifelong field of Picasso. Picasso embraced his ceramic art so sincerely and enthusiastically. With childlike interest and innocence, he solidified his scattered and unsystematic life feelings on the glaze. He also tried to break people's prejudice against ceramic clay and insisted that the ceramic products he created should be sold at low prices so that ordinary people could afford them.
The 92-year life and creative process of Picasso, a master of western art in the 20th century, is a gorgeous and long artistic legend. Compared with Picasso's passionate oil paintings and sketches, the ceramic art in his later years can actually fully reflect his skillful modeling ability, keep pace with nature and have high aesthetic value.
188 1 was born in Malaga, a city in southern Spain, and his father was an art teacher. When he was learning a language when he was very young, the first word that magically came out of his mouth was "piz". What he actually wants to say is "lapis", which means "pencil" in Spanish. I have been accompanied by paintings for as long as I can remember. When I was a child, I painted the pigeon theme vividly, which amazed my father. /kloc-When he moved to Barcelona at the age of 0/4, he broke the entrance examination record of Longha Art School in only one day, and the school completed the still life painting in one month. It proves that there is a kind of talent called "born".
1946 In the summer, at the age of 65, he took his wife Francois and their two children Claude and Paloma for a holiday in the small town of loris, a beautiful seaside town with a traditional ceramic production base. By chance, a friend invited them to visit a nearby handicraft market. Picasso pinched a few small pieces at random on the stall, and he was lucky enough to meet the owners of the famous local Madura pottery workshop-George and Susan. They let Picasso use his pottery equipment at will.
Three stages of Picasso's ceramic creation;
I don't know whether Picasso was attracted by the beauty of the town or by the charm of pottery. He has lived in this town for 25 years. At the same time, Picasso also entered the primary stage of his ceramic creation-"plane period". Because I was not trained in ceramic making, I couldn't solve the problems of glazing and repeated firing at first, so I directly molded birds, pigeons and owls on caked clay. He also found a supplier to provide Spanish platters. Multicolored brushed painted disk replaced the original canvas frame creation. He selected some works from the stock for decoration to emphasize the exquisite color and geometric decoration of the plate shape. When he created on a small medium, Picasso obviously abandoned the complexity of surrealism. In Picasso's ceramic works, like paintings, thousands of pigeons and bullrings often appear in Merced Square, bearing Picasso's love and memory of his hometown.
With the help of Susan and his wife, Picasso learned some basic knowledge of clay and got some suggestions on color and glaze firing. He began to break through the plane graphic expression, and successfully implanted interesting decorative elements into pots, plates, vases and other containers by freely adjusting the shape and proportion of pottery, making it a ceramic sculpture with two functions. For example, the $60,000 "two tall vases" sold in this auction turned into women's bodies, with attractive black and white color matching and rich decorative interest.
Since the late 1940s, Picasso has entered the mature period of ceramic creation. He started to fire his own ceramics in the electric coal kiln, and finally he was able to enjoy the pleasure of free firing. Owl is a common theme in Picasso's works, and there is a short story:
It is said that one night, Picasso and francoise found the injured owl on their way home, so they took it home for treatment and lived in Picasso's house after recovery. Another work, The Owl Woman, is a symmetrical standard vase. By adding an improperly cut cylinder in the center of the back of the vase, the shape of the vase becomes complicated. This interesting detail design adds an unexpected sense of decoration to the work, which uniquely constitutes the owl woman's curly hair.