Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Guitar

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Guitar
Image View: 
Close view from the right side, to show depth
Creator: 
Pablo Picasso (Spanish sculptor, 1881-1973)
Location: 
repository: Musée Picasso [Paris] (Paris, Île-de-France, France) MP260
Location Note: 
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
Date: 
1924 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Cubist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
assemblage (sculpture)
Classification: 
Sculpture and Installations
Material: 
paint; sheet iron; tin box; wire
Technique: 
construction (assembling); painting and painting techniques
Measurements: 
111 cm (height) x 63.5 cm (width) x 26.6 cm (depth)
Subjects: 
abstraction; cycles or series; music; Musical instruments
Description: 
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/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-PICASSO-FAFFM-GU-A03
Rights: 
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