Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Guitar
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Guitar
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Image View:
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Close view from the left side, to show depth
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Creator:
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Pablo Picasso (Spanish sculptor, 1881-1973)
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Location:
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repository: Musée Picasso [Paris] (Paris, Île-de-France, France) MP260
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Location Note:
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From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
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Date:
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1924 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Cubist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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assemblage (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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paint; sheet iron; tin box; wire
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Technique:
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construction (assembling); painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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111 cm (height) x 63.5 cm (width) x 26.6 cm (depth)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; cycles or series; music; Musical instruments
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Description:
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This assemblage was created in Paris, using sheet metal cut and folded, a tin box and iron wire, painted in a black and white scheme. Picasso created a first version of Guitar from cardboard in 1912, then later remade the work in sheet metal in 1914; the modern ordinariness of both of these materials is very different from traditional sculptural materials such as bronze, wood, and marble. To create the Guitar series, Picasso made a radical leap from the sculptural tradition of modeling (carving or molding) to a new technique of assemblage. This work from 1924 adds a more painterly approach, giving the work a textural background. (Source: MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) [website]; http://www.moma.org/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-PICASSO-FAFFM-GU-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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