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OVERVIEW<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0WORKS<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0EXHIBITIONS<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0PUBLICATIONS<\/a><\/p>\n

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The son of a painter specialising in naturalist painting, Pablo Picasso had colours in his blood, so to speak, and showed an extraordinary and precocious talent for drawing. He spent his childhood between Malaga and La Coru\u00f1a and visited Barcelona. He then settled in France.<\/p>\n

The paintings of his early period, such as the touching Science and Charity, testify to great skill and a certain attachment to tradition, learned from his father. It was the Parisian environment that made his talent flourish during his first experiments of the ‘Blue Period’, between 1901 and 1904. His palette was almost entirely composed of cold tones and he made the marginalised and excluded his main subjects. A great melancholy emanates from the paintings, as in La Vie in 1903 or in Le Repas de l’veugle of the same year.<\/p>\n

In 1905, his palette turned to warmer tones as he entered his ‘Pink Period’, where he deepened his search for volume and staged a grand parade of circus characters, as in Famille des saltimbanques in 1905 or Arlequin assis.<\/p>\n

The taste for primitivism and the influences of African art burst forth with Les Demoiselles d’Avignon in 1907, one of the points of no return for modern art, where the simplification of forms, the pre-eminence of the mental image over the physical image and Cubist research cross over.<\/p>\n

Between 1910 and 1914, Picasso first experimented with analytical cubism in Jeune fille \u00e0 la mandoline and then synthetic cubism with his collages. Between 1916 and the end of the 1930s, he adapted to the climate of the return to order with works of great classicism, such as Femme assise en chemise in 1923 or Deux femmes courant sur la plage in 1922.<\/p>\n

During the 1930s, Surrealist influences materialised in the figures of the Minotaures and the upheaval also appeared with Guernica in 1937. During the war, he remained in Paris and devoted himself to sculpture, painting and ceramics. In 1949, he created another 20th century icon, the famous Dove of Peace.<\/p>\n

During the 1950s, he continued to produce at a superhuman pace, approaching a systematic reinterpretation of classics and tradition. His dozens of versions of Las Meni\u00f1as de Velasquez are the best known testimony to this. During the 1960s and 1970s, he feverishly devoted himself to his simplification of forms that preceded neo-expressionism. The modernity of his career, his exceptional importance, his entire vision can be found in this statement of his: ‘When I was eight years old, I was Rapha\u00ebl. It took me a lifetime to paint like a child’.<\/p>\n

He died in Mougins in 1973.<\/p>\n

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WORKS<\/h2>\n

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Giacomo Balla, Figura – sdraiata + spazio<\/em>, 1918ca, pencil on tissue paper lying on canvas, 34.8×51.4 cm<\/p>\n

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EXHIBITIONS<\/h2>\n

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STORYBOARDS | INTERNI E VEDUTE<\/h4>\n

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09 March \u2013 12 May 2018<\/p>\n

ROME<\/h6>\n

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PUBLICATIONS<\/h2>\n

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PIZZI CANNELLA, En plein air<\/h4>\n

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Exhibition Catalogue
Curated by Archivio Pizzi Cannella and Galleria Mucciaccia
Essay by Franco Rella
Published by Carlo Cambi Editore, 2019.<\/p>\n

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Piero Pizzi Cannella \u2013 Exhibition Catalogue<\/h4>\n

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Exhibition Catalogue,\u00a0
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2014<\/p>\n

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Artists Index<\/a><\/p>\n

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OVERVIEW\u00a0 \u00a0WORKS\u00a0 \u00a0EXHIBITIONS\u00a0 \u00a0PUBLICATIONSThe son of a painter specialising in naturalist painting, Pablo Picasso had colours in his blood, so to speak, and showed an extraordinary and precocious talent for drawing. He spent his childhood between Malaga and La Coru\u00f1a and visited Barcelona. He then settled in France. The paintings of his early period, such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Alexander Calder was born in 1898, the second son in a family of artists: his father was a sculptor, his mother a painter. His parents encouraged him to be creative, and from the age of eight Alexander always had his own studio wherever the family lived. At Christmas 1909 he gave his parents two of his first works: a small dog and a duck made by cutting out and shaping a sheet of brass; the duck is a kinetic sculpture, with a tap it swings back and forth. He was only eleven years old, but his ease in handling materials was evident.\r\n\r\nAlthough he was so gifted, the young man did not immediately embark on an artistic career. For several years, he worked in a wide variety of jobs: as a hydraulic engineer and in the automobile industry, as a time supervisor in a logging and timber yard, and as a stoker in the boiler room of a ship.\r\n\r\nIn 1923 Calder moved to New York and enrolled in the Art Students League, an unconventional art school. In addition, the National Police Gazette hired him as a draftsman, and in 1925 commissioned him to follow the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circuses for a fortnight, illustrating their performances in a series of sketches. The sculptor would never abandon his interest in the circus; after moving to Paris in 1926, he created the Cirque Calder [Calder Circus], a complex and unrepeatable work created as an assemblage of tiny performers, animals, and props similar to those used by the Ringling Brothers, made of wire, leather, cloth, and various recycled materials. Calder had designed it in such a way that it could be manoeuvred by hand; each piece was small enough to fit into a large trunk, which the artist carried with him, thus being able to put on a show wherever he went. The first one took place in Paris in front of an audience of friends and colleagues and was followed by a series of performances, in Paris as well as in New York, which were very successful.\r\n\r\nThe artist discovered that he liked to work with wire for his circus, and soon began to carve sculptures from this material in which he portrayed friends and prominent figures of the time. In 1928, when the fame of his inventive faculties had begun to spread, the Weyhe Gallery in New York presented him with a first solo exhibition, soon followed by other exhibitions, again in New York and then in Paris and Berlin. As a result, Calder spent a lot of time travelling on ocean liners between Europe and America, and it was during one of these crossings that he met Louisa James (the writer Henry James was his great-uncle), to whom he married in January 1931. At the same time, the sculptor made friends with many artists and intellectuals who had become famous in the early 20th century: Joan Mir\u00f3, Fernand L\u00e9ger, James Johnson Sweeney, Marcel Duchamp. In October 1930, while visiting Piet Mondrian's Parisian studio, Calder was deeply impressed by a wall completely strewn with coloured cardboard rectangles, which the painter continuously moved for his compositional experiments. As the artist recounted in later years, the episode had \"shocked\" him, orienting him definitively towards total abstractionism. During the three weeks after being in Mondrian's studio, he devoted himself exclusively to abstract paintings, but this only served to make him realise that his preference was in fact for sculpture. Shortly afterwards he was invited to join Abstraction-Cr\u00e9ation [Abstraction-Creation], an influential group of artists (including Arp, Mondrian, H\u00e9lion) with whom he had become friends.\r\n\r\nThe autumn of 1931 marked an important turning point in his creative journey: Calder created his first true kinetic sculpture, giving rise to an entirely new artistic genre. For the first object of this kind, made mobile by a system of cranks and motors, Marcel Duchamp found the term 'mobile', a French word comparable to the Italian 'movente', which contains an allusion to motion but also to motivation. Shortly afterwards, the sculptor would renounce the mechanical aspects of these works, realising that he could make mobiles capable of oscillating by themselves thanks to air currents. To distinguish Calder's non-kinetic works from the others, the fixed objects, Jean Arp christened them 'stabiles'.\r\n\r\nIn 1933, the Calders left France and returned to the United States, where they purchased an old farmhouse in Roxbury, Connecticut, to which was attached a room that had once been used as an icehouse: this, renovated, became the artist's studio. During the 1930s the artist also designed sets for Martha Graham's and Eric Satie's ballets and continued to present Cirque Calder shows.\r\n\r\nIn the same decade Calder also began to try his hand at large-scale outdoor sculptures. In 1937 he created his first large-scale building (an enlarged version of an earlier building), bolted together and made entirely of metal sheets, to which he gave the title Devil Fish. The work was presented by the Pierre Matisse Gallery in the exhibition Stabiles and Mobiles, which also featured Big Bird, another large sculpture made from a smaller model. Shortly afterwards Calder was commissioned to execute Mercury Fountain for the Spanish pavilion at the Paris World's Fair (a work that symbolised the resistance to fascism by Spanish republicans) and Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, a large piece of furniture placed in the main stairwell of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.\r\n\r\nWhen the United States entered the war, there was a shortage of metal materials, so Calder began to make increasing use of wood, leading to a further genre of original sculptures, which Sweeney and Duchamp called 'constellations.\r\n\r\nIn the 1940s and 1950s Calder had a considerable artistic productivity, which was inaugurated in 1939 with the first retrospective of his work at the George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1949, the artist created the largest piece of furniture he had ever made, International Mobile, to be presented in the Third International Sculpture Exhibition at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia. In 1950 the Galerie Maeght in Paris also presented an exhibition of his work, and later became his exclusive dealer in Paris, a relationship that was to last for twenty-six years until Calder's death in 1976. By the 1960s Calder was recognised worldwide as an artist of great talent. In 1964, the Guggenheim Museum in New York put on a retrospective exhibition of his work; five years later, the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence celebrated him in turn with a retrospective exhibition.\r\n\r\nIn 1976, the sculptor attended the opening of another retrospective, entitled Calder's Universe, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He passed away at the age of seventy-eight a few weeks later in New York.","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modern"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mucciaccia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mucciaccia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mucciaccia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mucciaccia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mucciaccia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mucciaccia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mucciaccia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mucciaccia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mucciaccia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mucciaccia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}