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"Portrait of Ambroise Vollard"

Pablo Picasso - Oil On Canvas - 92 x 65 cm


famous painting Portrait of Ambroise Vollard of Pablo Picasso

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, which revolutionized European painting and sculpture in the early 20th century.

Painting: Portrait of Ambroise Vollard

Portrait of Ambroise Vollard is a colored painting created by Picasso in 1910. The painting depicts Ambroise Vollard, who was a French dealer and art collector. He is credited to provide exposure and emotional support to unknown artists including Pablo Picasso.

Style and Media

The painting reflects Analytical Cubism artwork completed by use of oil technique on canvas. Analytical Cubism, a term coined by Juan Gris, is the first phase of Cubism. It was pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and is characterized by a move towards the radical geometrization of form and a reduction or limitation of the color palette.

Size

The dimension of painting is 92 cm by 65 cm.

Date and Location

Portrait of Ambroise Vollard was created in 1910 and is housed at the Pushkin State Museum in Moscow, Russia.

Additional Information

As a portrait it is flattering, not least in its implication that Vollard is one of a tiny elite who understand cubism (that huge brain of his must have helped). With eyes closed like a trance, the massive explosion of his bald head, multiplying itself up the painting like an egg being broken open, his bulbous nose and the dark triangle of his beard are the first things the eye latches on to. They are recognizable. At least that's the way your mind, through habit, composes the details into information. But what head? What beard? Above Vollard's eyes is a broken architecture of shards of flesh- or brick-coloured painting; planes that have been started and stopped, as if in a slow-motion exaggerated cartoon of the movement a painter makes between looking up, recording on canvas the detail he sees, looking back. The process of the painting reveals itself with gross, physical explicitness, and in doing so, creates a kind of caricature; Picasso monstrously transfigures the aspect of Vollard's head, its massive dome, that most impresses him. There is not a single aspect of his face that is "there" in any conventional pictorial sense. The more you look for a picture, the more insidiously Picasso demonstrates that life is not made of pictures but of unstable relationships between artist and model, viewer and painting, self and world. And yet this is a portrait of an individual whose presence fills the painting. Vollard is more real than his surroundings, which have disintegrated into a black and grey crystalline shroud.

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