Picasso Sculpture - MoMA a feast for the Eyes!

"Bust of a Woman"     1931

​Fairfield County "It!" attended the Picasso Sculpture exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

There are a few hours left to attend this extraordinary, comprehensive and amazing exhibit.   

If you can, go!  It ends Sunday, February 7, 2016.

    
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I renewed my membership before we went, which allowed us to walk into the exhibit without waiting in the long line.  

​MoMA set it up as not only a spectacular exhibit of Picasso's sculpture, but also added mystique to the identification of the sculpture.  
In order to determine what you were viewing you had to match a sketched outline located in the handout to find the name and description of the art work. 

I loved the approach and deciphering what piece I was looking at!

Head of a Picador with a Broken Nose.  
Barcelona 1903
Early Works & the First Cubist Sculptures
​1902 - 1909

      

Glass Absinthe  - Painted Bronze with absinthe spoon
Paris 1914
The Cubist Years 
1912 - 1915

Here is a painted bronze
Glass of Absinthe.  
The distilled spirit was quite the rage in Paris in 1914.

The classic French absinthe ritual involves placing a sugar cube on a flat perforated absinthe spoon, which rests on the rim of the glass containing a measure or “dose” of absinthe. Iced water is then very slowly dripped on to the sugar cube, which gradually dissolves and drips, along with the water, into the absinthe, causing the green liquor to louche (“loosh”) into an opaque opalescent white as the essential oils precipitate out of the alcoholic solution. Usually three to four parts water are added to one part of 68% absinthe. Historically, true absintheurs used to take great care in adding the water, letting it fall drop by single drop onto the sugar cube, and then watching each individual drip cut a milky swathe through the peridot-green absinthe.   http://www.absinthespoon.com/rituel.php

 I am seeking an absinthe spoon, in order to replicate the experience!

    

The Cubist Years 1912 - 1915

is also the era that Picasso created a number of musical instrument sculptures such as this guitar. 

Picasso, gifted this guitar to MoMA.

Still Life with Guitar
Paris 1913
The Cubists Years, 1912 - 1915

     

Metamorphosis I, Paris
Bronze 1928
The Monument to Apollinaire
1927-1931

​Here is

​Metamorphosis I

with her alluring gaze.

      

   




Woman in the Garden.

Head of a Warrior 
Boisgelouip, 1933
The Boisgeloup Sculpture Studio, 1933 - 1937

Woman in the Garden
Paris 1930
The Monument to Appollinaire, 1927 - 1931

​Later we greeted  
Head of a Warrior,

a gift of Jacqueline Picasso

in honor of MoMA's
continuous commitment to
Pablo Picasso's
art.

          

​The strutting handsome Cock.

Cock
Boisgeloup, 1932
Thje Boisgeloup Sculpture Studio, 1933 - 1937

     

Little Girl Jumping Rope
Vallauris
1950 - 1954
Vallauris amd Cannes Assemblges, 1952 - 1953

​We bumped into this delightful young lady,

Little Girl Jumping Rope.

Reminiscent of when children reached for a jump rope to have a fun time

versus playing games on a phone.  

                     

​Woman Reading

reminded me of Lewis Carol's early drawings of
Alice in Wonderland
with an elongated neck

which was recently exhibited at
The Morgan Library
​to celebrate her 100th birthday.

       
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Women Reading
Vallauris
1951 - 1953

The Bathers: Women Diver, Man with Folded Hands, Fountain Man, Child, Woman with Outstretched Arms & Young Man
Cannes 1956

Here are

The Bathers

inspired by beach scenes from Cannes in the 1950's.


Interestingly, as Picasso skillfully and actively sculpted throughout his career, he never really promoted that part of his art until he agreed to his first sculpture exhibit in Paris in 1966.

In the main gallery,
full of one fabulous painting after another,

we bumped into this hooded figure perfecting his or her
clearly talented sketch of
​Picasso's
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. 

​What an exquisite Exhibit, MoMA!

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"It!"       Woman       Kyle

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