{"id":1741,"date":"2018-06-21T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francevisiting.com\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2020-03-31T17:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T15:02:14","slug":"picasso-and-picabia-the-challenging-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francevisiting.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/21\/picasso-and-picabia-the-challenging-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Picasso and Picabia, the challenging painting exhibtion in Aix-en-Provence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Easy like a summer waltz in Aix-en-Provence, t<\/strong>he Proven\u00e7al summer resonates with the bright colors of two twentieth century’s major painters. In this case, a real confrontation between Picasso and Picabia, both Hispanic artists of culture, historical masters in the counterpoint Art. <\/strong>By Sylvie Roman, translated from French by Alex Plato<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"In a former private mansion<\/strong>, the Granet Museum<\/strong>, situated in Aix-en-Provence<\/strong>, offers to anyone’s vision, its classic facades<\/strong>, cut in a stone adorned with caramel colors… A garden side is a more classic panorama setting from immaculate rooms, which regularly hostq major exhibitions<\/strong> of the French<\/strong> scene (Photo credits: Sylvie Roman\/ Picabia<\/strong>, on the left and Picasso<\/strong>, on the right).<\/p>\n

This summer season honors two painters, native from the Mediterranean Area<\/strong> and its timeless light, research, impetuosity and daring inventiveness, expressed here with the support of two charity patrons, the Cr\u00e9dit Agricole Alpes Provence Foundation<\/strong> and the Fundaci\u00f3n Mapfre<\/strong> (Barcelona).<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"For your information, Francis Picabia<\/strong>, was born in Paris<\/strong> in 1879, from a French<\/strong> and Cuban<\/strong> family (notably from its paternal lineage), whereas Pablo Picasso<\/strong>, born in Barcelona<\/strong> in 1881, only moved to Paris<\/strong> in 1906.<\/p>\n

Among them, we may count many common points, like this Hispanic<\/strong> culture, visible in their mutual visions of color<\/strong> and passion<\/strong>, bullfighting<\/strong> and women <\/strong>expressions. Sometimes rumored as rivals, they would eventually have collaborated throughout their prolific artistic lives, somehow close but so different, this exhibition<\/strong>, organized in the Granet Museum<\/strong>, very intelligently reveals this intimacy. <\/p>\n

Pictured here, the J’ai vu femme de New York<\/strong>, <\/strong>on the left <\/strong>and Sc\u00e8ne de Tauromachie<\/strong>, on the right, both realized by Picabia<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"Thanks to more than a hundred artworks, we dive into a really colorful experience, throughout time, research and exchange, between Pablo<\/strong> and Francis<\/strong>. From the Cubist<\/strong> period, the two friends have their proper interpretation, perhaps more figurative for Picabia<\/strong>, especially in his bullfighting scenes. Thereafter, we recognize the dough of those two contemporary masters, for example in the paintings combining a violin and a bottle for one, ampoules and mechanical women, for the other one, during his stay in New York<\/strong>. Picabia<\/strong> was indeed much fascinated by this city of speed, innovation and modernism (artworks here, Un baiser<\/strong> by Picasso<\/strong>, left and another Un baiser<\/strong> by Picabia<\/strong>, right).<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"Picabia<\/strong>‘s perpetual quest for Dadaism<\/strong> (a path that Picasso<\/strong> decided not to take) or the Surrealism<\/strong> movement durably influenced the work of the early years of the Parisian <\/strong>artist, unlike Picasso<\/strong>, who traced his own way, through his own pictorial research (artworks here, Embarras<\/strong> by Picasso<\/strong>, left and Paris<\/strong> by Picabia<\/strong>, right).<\/p>\n

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Several paintings of a Spanish<\/strong> woman, and notably an Andalusian<\/strong> dancer, confront and interact, such as La femme \u00e0 la mantille<\/strong>, Andalusia<\/strong>, Fatma<\/strong>… all of them were exposed side by side, in order to highlight the differences and similarities between those two painters, as if they had worked side by side! Fascinating…<\/p>\n

Abstraction also has its place in this abundant exhibition<\/strong>, thanks to moving characters, acrobats, bathing women, couples embracing and kissing each other (for proof, Un baiser<\/strong>), two versions of the same theme, two in the same frontality, Picabia<\/strong> may be even more surprising and more experimental than Picasso<\/strong>! (left: Femme \u00e0 la mantille<\/strong> by Francis Picabia<\/strong>, and right: Jeune Femme<\/strong> by Picasso<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"Last but not least, we dive into a particularly more Figurative<\/strong> period, in the 30s<\/strong> and 40s<\/strong>, when Francis Picabia<\/strong> worked for several magazines<\/strong>, through photos<\/strong>, posters<\/strong>, and still had the chance to offer us to admire sumptuous women, like American<\/strong> pinups… (Danse de Saint-Guy<\/strong> by Picasso, <\/strong>on the left and the <\/strong>Femme Americaine<\/strong> by Picabia<\/strong>, on the right).<\/p>\n

In fact, this summer exhibition<\/strong> was not to be missed, leading you into a mild Proven\u00e7al<\/strong> journey, between a walk in the Alpilles<\/strong>, Baux-de-Provence<\/strong> or Saint-R\u00e9my<\/strong><\/a>, in the footsteps of Van Gogh<\/strong>, a concert at La Roque d’Anth\u00e9ron<\/strong>, for the International Piano Festival<\/strong><\/a>, and of course the Aix-en-Provence ArtLyric Festival<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n

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