Picasso: Magic, Sex & Death

Picasso Magic, Sex, amp Death 2001 is a threeepisode Channelfilm documentary series on Pablo Picasso 18811973 presented by the artists friend and biographer John Richardson, and directed by Christopher Bruce or British art critic Waldemar Januszczak, who was also the series director. Onscreen contributors include Picasso descendants such as Paloma Picasso, Bernard RuizPicasso, Diana WidmaierPicasso, Maya Picasso, and Claude Picasso along with authorities such as Mary Ann Caws, Billy Klver, Grard Rgnier, James Lord, Bernard Minoret, Robert Rosenblum, Linda Gasman, Marilyn McCully, David Gilmore and Gertje Utley one former mistress Francoise Gilot and one flirtation Sylvette David.

In 1904, he moved to a ramshackle, wooden warren of rooms known as Le BateauLavoir the Acropolis of Cubism. There he met the model Fernande Olivier La Belle Fernande, who became his muse. They took opium and vacationed at Gsol, Spain, where the local red limestone showed up in the colors of his Rose Period paintings. Fernandes image morphed from that of a classical goddess to an Earth Mother after Picassos exposure to prehistoric Iberian sculpture.It was the then virtually unknown El Greco painting Opening of the Fifth Seal, along with a visit to the African tribal masks in the Trocadro Ethnographical Museum, that combined to inspire the epochmaking Les Demoiselles dAvignon 1907. The centrality of tribal art, and its magical functions, had the most profound impact on Picasso. Over seven years, he and Georges Braque also invented Cubism. ........

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