{"id":26555,"date":"2025-02-20T12:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T12:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26555"},"modified":"2025-02-21T16:44:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T16:44:01","slug":"art-mining-picasso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26555","title":{"rendered":"ART: Mining Picasso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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State at time of posting\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last night, having done no art during the day, I sketched out a couple of \u2018via Picasso\u2019 pencil drawings. Drawing inspiration from Josep Palau i Fabre\u2019s third large volume on Pablo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t have the slip-case, alas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is my most recently acquired in this suite of very large and very lovely tomes. And it\u2019s the one I\u2019m least familiar with, contents wise. So I thought I\u2019d have a butcher\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I quite like to draw upon (boom boom!) almost any old image. I will<\/em> select some and reject others. But often the ones I pick aren\u2019t those I necessarily like the best. They just appear, to me, to have something I could learn from. Quite what, I\u2019m not always sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier phase\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Two on the go\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As can be seen, from this and previous posts, I\u2019m maximising the use of the sketch pad, by working both pages. I need to spay-fix the resulting artworks, to minimise them printing onto each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes I\u2019ll just work on one. At others I might work on both. Mostly I\u2019ll concentrate on one at a time. I\u2019m still using mixed media. And I\u2019m finding that enjoyable and satisfactory for what are, to me, preparatory or exploratory sketches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some reason, for me, Picasso, with his volcanic outpourings of creativity, is a go to seam of inspiration. I can mine in the many chambers of his creative catacombs, and never fear I\u2019ll run out of exciting ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I even find it intriguing that he might have certain popular recurrent themes – bull fighting, theatre and the commedia dell\u2019arte<\/em> all spring to mind – that I\u2019m not that fussed about myself. I can still milk these strands for ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Again\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I reproduce the current WIP, above (exactly as it is at the top of the post), again\u2026 so as to have it in view whilst reflecting on it. I\u2019m reading it – in my version – as a figure with an inverted guitar in a brown room, against a door opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are elements of symmetry, balance, or \u2018echoes\u2019, some drawn from Picasso\u2019s work, and some that I\u2019ve introduced myself. I can tell that I want to \u2018abstractify\u2019 the whole thing a lot more. And probably soften some of Picasso\u2019s harder angles\/planes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picasso likes things that double up – a bike seat and handle bars become a bull\u2019s head, for example – and here a figures\u2019 body is also that of a guitar. The Harlequin references – the diamond pattern and funny (admirals?) hat – are retained in my version. But I think I\u2019ll work them into something less obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today\u2019s art works\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Started working a bit more on the second piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Actually quite like this\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Much to my surprise, I actually quite like where the second piece is headed. Once again, it\u2019s a combination of Picasso, and my own stuff. Whilst mining Picasso, I do have to make these things my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started using some cheap gouache paints, that I got from WHSmith, in Peterboro\u2019. They turned out to be a bit more translucent\/transparent than I had imagined they would be. But that\u2019s not proving to be a problem, so far\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, having done no art during the day, I sketched out a couple of \u2018via Picasso\u2019 pencil drawings. Drawing inspiration from Josep Palau i Fabre\u2019s third large volume on Pablo: This is my most recently acquired in this suite of very large and very lovely tomes. And it\u2019s the one I\u2019m least familiar with, … <\/p>\n

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