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Art Of The Day Weekly
#361 - from 23 October 2014 to 29 October 2014
Pablo Picasso and William Hartmann, observed by Jacqueline. Notre-Dame-de-Vie, 1966, Museo Picasso Málaga.© Roberto Otero, Museo Picasso Málaga.
Portrait of Picasso as a T.V. viewer
MALAGA – How did Picasso, the great communicator with the Eternal through his art and photography, react when television was invented? When Jacqueline Roque bought one TV set at the beginning of the sixties, Picasso looked at it with interest, and followed in particular the programs on circuses (« La piste aux étoiles »), and on wrestling. According to curator Laurence Madeline, he echoed it in his engravings – for example in Suite 347 - with angles and characters inspired from T.V. programs or Western movies. And he demonstrated, at more than 80 years old, a curiosity and capacity to renew himself that were unaffected.
• Picasso TV at Museo Picasso in Malaga, from 30 June to 16 November 2014.