Picasso iconophage - Exhibition catalog

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

Monster was the artistic production of Picasso, this consuming images ogre who, throughout his life, never ceased to feed on a fantastic and constantly multiplied pool of images.

With an insatiable curiosity, Picasso looked at the classics as well as his contemporaries. From his visits to studios, museums and other galleries, he drew from the original and primary sources a raw material, always reprocessed by the game of memory, in the light of his own preoccupations and research. To this substrate, without any real hierarchy, have been added the secondary visual sources, those resulting from reproduction in its multiple forms, in black and white or in color: prints; posters, newspapers or miscellaneous printed matter; books and periodicals; not to mention a formidable collection of postcards.

The exhibition proposed today by the Picasso Museum and the accompanying catalogue look at the visual culture of this absolute eye of twentieth-century art, to study its sources, as well as to analyze the logics of appropriation, digestion, diversion and even perversion, at work in his creative process. This singular path will be considered through four narrative sequences - that of the hero, the minotaur, the voyeur and the musketeer - which are particularly enlightening, projecting the reader/visitor into Picasso's head as if he were there.

Exhibition « Picasso : Consuming images », musée national Picasso-Paris from 11 June to 22 September 2024

French

448 pages / 200 illustrations

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