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Inside Houston's highly-anticipated Picasso show: Expert delves deep to give exclusive insights
Feb 21, 2013 | 1:04 pm
As far as art exhibitions go, the most profound are rooted in a simple idea. Picasso Black and Whiteat the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston fits that bill.
___ The first decade of the 1900s was teeming with aesthetic currents flowing in many different directions. Picasso's Accordionist surfaces at a time when the artist peaked in his experiments with Abstraction. As much as this image seems like a kaleidoscope of a deconstructed reality, Picasso doesn't remove the subject completely from its original form. Instead, the viewer is cajoled into transferring the geometric shapes to reconstruct a puzzle that tickles the visual imagination.
Photo courtesy of © 2013 Estate of Pablo Picasso Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
___ The first decade of the 1900s was teeming with aesthetic currents flowing in many different directions. Picasso's Accordionist surfaces at a time when the artist peaked in his experiments with Abstraction. As much as this image seems like a kaleidoscope of a deconstructed reality, Picasso doesn't remove the subject completely from its original form. Instead, the viewer is cajoled into transferring the geometric shapes to reconstruct a puzzle that tickles the visual imagination.
Pablo Picasso, Accordionist, Céret, summer 1911, oil on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, by gift