From Barcelona Rooftops to La Vie. Two Technical Surveys
Summary
- >> Always etablish the parallels between the pictural process and vital of Picasso
- >> La vie, a complex and long amended artwork
- >> Changes in pictorial technique in an aca demically trained art ist
- >> Last moments, the memory of an artwork of breach
- >> Barcelona Rooftops, Barcelona, 1903
- >> Superficial studies. Characteristics of the work and state of conservation
- >> In-depth studies. The underlying layer
- >> Description of the underlying image
- >> Description of the pictorial technique through stratigraphic study
- >> Drawings and paintings resembling the image of the underlying layer
- >> Pictorial technique in the Blue Period
- >> Scientific–technical study
- >> Scientific study of Barcelona Rooftops
- >> Scientific analysis of La Vie
- >> Study of the Samples taken from Barcelona Rooftops
- >> Identification of colours and pigments of La Vie
- >> Under the shadow of blue: the preparatory drawings for La Vie
- >> From Barcelona Rooftops, datation
This article is an attempt to study in depth the creative process of the seminal years in Picasso’s oeuvre, before he settled in Paris, when he was still travelling back and forth between Barcelona and Paris. The parallels between the pictorial technique and the life of an artist such as Picasso cannot be overlooked. as well as familiarising ourselves with his work and making it known, it is essential that we examine his life extensively, without dividing lines, in order to learn how and in what circumstances he produced his creations.