Still Life with Chair Caning.
Title
Still Life with Chair Caning .
Creator
Picasso, Pablo (Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker, 1881-1973)
Date
1912
Cultural Context
Spanish European Western European
Style/Period
Cubist Synthetic Cubist Modern (styles and periods)
Subject
Still lifes Collages Abstract Paintings Abstract works Chairs Wicker furniture Textures Ropes Borders (Ornament areas)
Description
Oil and pasted oilcloth on canvas , surrounded with rope ; "Eager to recover other aspects of reality - positive color and texture , for instance - and increase the legibility of his pictures , without resorting to the outmoded conventions of older art , Picasso forfeited oil and brushwork in favor of real components pasted directly onto the support . This led him, in early 1912 , to produce Still Life with Chair Caning , and, with it , to invent collage (from the French world coller , meaning 'to glue') , one of the most fertile and liberating techniques ever conceived in modern art . Here Picasso took the logic of imitating the banal aspects of the physical environment one important step further . Still Life with Chair Caning includes a piece of oilcloth printed in imitation of actual caning . To leave no doubt about the coexistence of dual realities - the representation of the still life and its evocation with real-life fragments of materials - the artist framed the small oval canvas with a hemp rope , which paradoxically imitated the scroll-like shapes of a conventional gilt-wood picture frame. " (Excerpt , p . 143)
Material
Mixed media Oil paint (pigmented coating) Paint Oilcloth Canvas Rope Hemp Paste (adhesive)
Measurements
10 5/8 x 13 3/4"
Technique
Collage (technique) Oil painting (technique) Painting (image-making) Pasting
Work Type
Paintings Oil paintings Abstract Paintings Abstract works Still life paintings Still lifes Collages
Repository
Musée Picasso (Paris, France)
Source
Hunter, Sam, John Jacobus, and Daniel Wheeler. Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 3rd rev ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. (p.143, fig.237).
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC 437-52.jpg
Rating
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