This is the first ever solo Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Modern. Art would be so much better in our time if it could forget that false dilemma, and recover the legacy of cubism,” Jonathon Jonesġ932 was an intensely creative period in the life of the 20th century’s most influential artist.
So, we inhabit a shallowed and evacuated art world that sees itself as “subverting” the heaviness of modernist art. The later pursuit of the absolute produced the inevitable reaction of postmodernism – and the loss of depth that entailed. “Cubism is the road not taken by later modernist art. The freedom this offers to the artist is radical and equally so for the viewer, it testifies to the plasticity of reality and encourages the creative mind to master it, A place and a time swim darkly into view the world is revealed in its majesty. “in your process of perception produces a solid feeling of the things Picasso was looking at, that he was touching with his brain – the fruit, the bottle, the newspaper, the cafe table. Rexrothįurther to this Jones identifies the way that cubism has a very direct relationship with thought and perception offering insight into the artists psychic process,
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This is quite different from the free association of the Surrealists and the combination of random utterance and political nihilism of Dada,’ K. ‘It is the conscious, deliberate dissociation and recombination of elements into a new artistic entity made self-sufficient by its rigorous architecture. Rexroth reflects of the reconfiguration of elements which the creative act of making work in cubism involves, We experience this ‘upset’ in our version of reality when we look into a broken mirror, the fractured image which looks back at us suggests the multiple ways we can be seen and how the whole self is just an illusion since we are actually a constantly moving, shifting thing, never still or solid. Georges Braque, 1908, Le Viaduc de L’Estaque (Viaduct at L’Estaque) “Man is a river, …you can never step into the same river twice because its not the same river and your not the same man!” Heraclitus
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