Galorie Micheal Art Exhibit

 

The Inspiration of Artist Pablo Picasso--Art Exhibit January 17, 2008

 

This evening I had the pleasure of attending an exhibition at Galerie Micheal located in Beverly Hills, California dedicated to Pablo Picasso. It featured a complete and rare set of progressive proofs and prints illustrating the process from inception to the final state.

 

Pablo Picasso is a celebrated artist of the twentieth century born in southern Spain and began to draw when he was only seven years old under the eye of his father who was a teacher of painting.

 

Picasso was considered the driving force of the visual avant-garde. His art evolved into many diversified experiments and constant innovations of many moods. I was admiring at his works and felt a great sense of romance and passion about his great works of art.

I read that Picasso's art revolved around the various relations with his wives and mistresses Many of the portraits are actually of his wives, mistresses and children. He was inspired by his affairs of the mind and the heart, it drove him into wild passion and he immortalized them in his art.

One of his affairs was Genevive Laporte, who became an award-winning documentary style film-maker and poet.

This began as an affair when Mme Laporte met Picasso to interview him for her school magazine in 1944 when she was 17. I remember reading this was their conversation "Mr Picasso, young people do not understand your paintings," she said. Picasso was furious , "What is that?'' He answered "Since when do you have to explain the language of painting? Do you understand the language of potato chips". Although it was an unusual beginning the painter then 63 and the schoolgirl 17 started a platonic relationship discussing art and literature. This latter evolved in a very passionate affair.

Mme Laporte remembers him as an extremely intelligent, wonderful and respectful man, she fell in love with.

 

His art was a constant driving force which was inspired by passion and led him into artistic sense of spirit. Sketching and painting women he adored through his artistic dynamism and immortalizing their image in his mind and the public view forever.

Mmmmmmm, how totally romantic.......................................