Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier

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"With her obscurity, almond-shaped eye, Fernande be a decisive attendance contained by Picasso's art. -- Roberta Smith, The New York Times

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In this . I cannot think of any other moment in the history of art where an artist has this much freedom, and has to decide all for himself what he should do with it. Picasso is working without the rules--and without a net--and every single move has to be figured out from scratch, tested just by launching into it. exhibition . we get to see one subject, explored in depth by one astounding artist, at one impossibly important moment in the history of art. It gives us the chance to really concentrate on a few works that don't stop posing questions and striking sparks off each other. Picasso is not the alchemist-magician that became his favorite pose; he's more like an eager young genius working long hours in the lab. Hes just working. He's not working toward cubism, or any other ism for that matter. -- Review Painting & paintings Picasso: The Cubist Portraits.

One subject, explored in depth by one astounding artist, at one impossibly important moment in the history of art. -- Blake Gopnik, Washington Post

The book is so well and so fully illustrated that one could imagine the exhibition had come to one's desk. -- Norbert Lynton , The ArtBook

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In the 30 years since his death, the epic career of Pablo Picasso has sustained endless parsing and subdivision, yielding exhibitions of ever sharper focus. [A] revelatory, singularly moving show. But few of these shows equal the spectacular close-up provided by Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier at the National Gallery of Art.
(Roberta Smith New York Times ) Styles of Fernande Olivier.

In this . Picasso is not the alchemist-magician that became his favorite pose; he's more like an eager young genius working long hours in the lab. exhibition . He's not working toward cubism, or any other -ism for that matter. I cannot think of any other moment in the history of art where an artist has this much freedom, and has to decide all for himself what he should do with it. He's just working. It gives us the chance to really concentrate on a few works that don't stop posing questions and striking sparks off each other. we get to see one subject, explored in depth by one astounding artist, at one impossibly important moment in the history of art. Picasso is working without the rules--and without a net--and every single move has to be figured out from scratch, tested just by launching into it.
(Blake Gopnik Washington Post ) Individual artists of Fernande Olivier.

Picasso is intellectually challenging and rewarding, argued convincingly with the aid of 150 reproductions. A conviction that drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography were deliberately and innovatively interwoven in Picasso's processes of creation unifies and enlivens this volume throughout.
(Choice ).

The book is so well and so fully illustrated that one could imagine the exhibition had come to one's desk. Additional illustrations in the essays ensure that the book becomes, in this respect, the exhibition augmented. The three essays accompanying the reproductions add substantially to the knowledge and considerations most of us could bring to its sharply focused theme.
(Norbert Lynton The ArtBook ).

The book is so well and so fully illustrated that one could imagine the exhibition had come to one's desk. Additional illustrations in the essays ensure that the book becomes, in this respect, the exhibition augmented. The three essays accompanying the reproductions add substantially to the knowledge and considerations most of us could bring to its sharply focused theme.
(Norbert Lynton The Art Book ).

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