When Pablo Picasso was Pau de Gósol or the Birth of Cézanne’s Grandson
by Jèssica Jaques Pi Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Summary
- >> Three simultaneous reasons behind Picasso’s rebirth:
- >> Pau de Gósol: a Cézannian atmosphere and a primitive everyday life. Pablo becomes Pau.
- >> > exit from the pictorial crisis
- >> > Gósol, the magical setting.
- >> > Picasso’s new plastic language
- >> Picasso’s Experimentation of Cézanne’s Doubts : Fifteen Ways “to go into the Motif”
- >> > Cézanian syntax applied
- >> 3. From Figures to Icons: fifteen stereotypes including the mask
- >> > Where art wins over reality.
1906 was the year when Picasso abandoned nineteenth-century procedures still present in his Blue and Rose periods and embarked on a journey towards his peculiar form of modern art. It was in the Portrait of Gertrude Stein that he experimented with this transformation, as his then very close friend explains when describing his “long struggle” at that time.