P a b l o P i c a s s o
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During their collaboration in
the Cubist movement, both
Picasso and Braque
reached a
point at which visible realities
were so completely dismantled
and geometrically arranged in
their paintings that they
became virtually invisible.
But in 1912, instead of taking
the final step into abstract art,
the two men preferred to
re-introduce elements from
the real world. However, these
were no longer just painted
images. Braque, for example,
inserted words into his
canvases. In Still Life with Chair
Coining Picasso
went even
Further. The 'frame' is simply a
piece of rope. Most of the
canvas is occupied by a typical
Cubist cafe ensemble (glass,
lemon, newspaper) but the
caning of the chair back is
more conventionally shown —
because it is actually printed
on to a piece of oil cloth that
Picasso stuck on to the canvas,
thereby inventing the collage.
Finally he painted shadows
across the oil cloth, wittily
compounding the confusion
between the 'real' and the
'unreal'.
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Source: Life and Works of Picasso
Further Reading: Biography I
Further Reading: Life of Picasso
Further Reading: Pablo Picasso & Jean Cocteau
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