Still Life in Hell

Picasso and Warhol

Mark Warren " Nature Morte (Pablo & Andy)" 36" X 44" oil on linen

To my mind Picasso and Warhol came close to killing modern art. "But Mark", you might say, " I know you hate Andy but I thought you revered Picasso?" Yes but I feel the size of Picasso's achievement has left so little room to work in that "Modernism" was ripe for it's execution by the likes of Warhol. The only thing left was to suck any spiritual or expressive dimension out of painting and to complete modernism's self-fulfilling fantasy of it's own death. I f you think this view is reactionary you would be wrong. I accept Modernism's demise and it's lost principles of progress but remember Post-modernism is the new academy.

All Things Picasso #7

The Picasso Mystery

Three months ago an elderly couple turned up at the office of Picasso's son with a haul of lost works, triggering a police investigation. More here.

All Things Picasso #5

"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffes, the leopard and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things." -PP

All Things Picasso #4

Amedeo Modigliani

Portrait of Picasso 1915

Titian & Picasso

Close Call

Picasso nearly risked his reputation for Franco exhibition

Had he accepted it would have been major coup for Falangists and destroyed Picasso's status as hero of left, says biographer. More here.

Luckily he backed the right horse!

Borrowings From Picasso

Franco I

Franco II

Franco III

Antonio Frasconi, (American, born Argentina 1919), all three from Oda A Lorca, 1962,  lithographs, from an unbound illustrated book with fourteen lithographs, irregular composition 30 1/8 x 22 5/16" (76.5 x 56.7 cm). MOMA

 

Picasso "The Dream and Lie of Franco plate II 1937 etching