On the question of abstraction, we should not seek it.
Picasso is categorical: it is a border that he will not cross.
For him, the object of the painting remains the subject to be painted.
So, in his anger, at a time when Paul Klee and Kandinsky flourish abstract art on a musical model, Picasso is indignant:
“Basically when we talk about abstract art, we always say that it is music.
When we want to say good things about it, we talk about music.
Everything becomes music.
I think that's why I don't like music, ”
he said, according to the remarks reported by Hélène Parmelin in 1966, in
Picasso dit
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Cécile Godefroy, curator of the exhibition “Les Musiques de Picasso” to see and hear at the Philharmonie de Paris, has therefore attempted to deny this quote.
Drawing from the archives, the museum and the family, some 250 works and objects show how music has passed through the artist's art and life.
A question of the times.
Because from Barcelona to Paris, melisms
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