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THE CHINA 'MAIL, 'MONDAY, JULY 30, 1956.

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PENETRATING THE GREAT ENIGMA THAT IS PICASSO

By LES ARMOUR

Russian ballet dancer; his mercurial friendships, often ending in explosions; his emly restless rovings from place to place--all testify to a kind of inner instability brought about by subor, enough. dinating life to art.

Yet this may be the price of genuis, and what Picasso lost the world ga'ned.

The man, in any case, car only be reached through his art.

His earliest works, some of them painted as early as 1894, when he was only 13, are curious for a quality which is more often found In old age than early youth

complete detachment.

their own,

But Waist way not

Abou 1905. bix began to change.

His "Heard of ย Man." painted in that year, stands out among hils ether work like a

AL rose Bardeti, bomb in

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restored

ипу Pleasto's emotional equilibrium while he prepared for the as- paintings cult of the cubist" period.

inily "Cubism" not

brought vimal third dimension to paint- ing. I served as an: ther mans of uncovering reality, The sharp edges, the harsh, brash colours, the sometimes terrifying tortion, all had their purpose-- they portrayed man's to come to torms with reality In all its bitler' drama,

Thic mais nose--a perfect tangle, vast in proportion to the rest of his face-appears sulck straight out of the canvas, His chim comes to a point; vast oval-shaped you ever to sink into the middle of his head.

Cubist purpose

its way. "Cubism" had a very simple It was intended to dimensions 10

"CUBISM" was on

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T 76, Pablo Ruiz Picasso is a small, round Ahouldered man with Q wisp He stands of while hair. and walks in an easy, re- laxed manner. like one who has finally mastered the

Seen

by mind

purpose. element in which he lives.

bring three the great. Only

Found THE portrait of his mother, two-dimensional convas, searchlight

which eyes.

Dona Maria, painted me as familiar as Pleasso was seem to Blaminatę rather when he was 14, shows a with the fact that a properly drawn cube really does seem than to grasp everything woman clearly losing her to have depth as well as length around him, give the im- battle with the world-her and breadth, pression of a giant. It is head stumped forward, her only when he looks straight hair wispy at the edges,

krka. ut, around and through you. her figure running to fat, that you realise that this is her

He was, of car”, concerned more tham optical with with for Heen summons up had obviously man who

Between 1901 ¡Hution,

und worlds at the flick of almost inhuman objectivity. 1905 he had gone through what

of com- There is a trace finger.

passion in the painting, but no indication of any of the feeling a 14-year-old might be expected to feel for his

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eyes

mother.

closed.

Picasso

It has been said his world is entirely ocular. But this is misleading. If he had only eyes he would see the world only as it is to other men: fixed in three dimen- The style, too, is interest stons. changing unly to ing. It might almost be a predetermined rules, evolv- piece of photography-if a Ing with the universe of the

camera were, in fact, able to astronomers. Ale sees much capture what can be seen that but it is only by the mind. For the his mind that sees. rather painting gives the impres- than his eyes.

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Move- Captured

He continued to paint in that TIS mind has always had style until his first visit HIS

the world firmly in its Paris when he was 21.

ment seem to have since he was a grip, ever

him completely in Paris - it very small child in Spain.

cremed to be a city in a con- stant whirl, and he net about

His father was # pro-

Ballet

Feem dancers canvne fessional artist; his grand-ing the whirl on paper and the page; little spin on father, his uncle and an aunt 1

children, with vast round eyce, had, been amateur artists.

the canvas. almost skip off To Pablo, to be an artist was

Even a street Geene the natural thing.

Clichy) seems Boulevard change before your eyes.

(the to

on one

Picasso

were

simply nulled

the

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dir.

Colours ran rlot. Shapes Were Juxtaposed in wild, logical patterns which aroused (motions and which could not be numed nor pinned down, for They were aroused by sights entirely foreign to this world.

Sometimes There was stark Terror.

remelimes deep repose. only the strange mast often uneasiness which comes from having an experience which you cannot quite place.

Terrible hoax

struggle WHETHER Picasso succeededi In doing anything of per- manent worth in these paintings or not must remain a matter for Some of them were simply unintelligible, Some were spattered with deep symbolism critics interpreted which some as endless variations on the un- printable.

Men might appear twisted, doubt. distorted, smashed, their insides dangling loosely They might

"The

Three appear Musicians," hollow and stuffed with bits of their Owil machinery. But they were al- ways alive and fighting stil,

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"Cubism" was to become

D millionaire... rage, Ples50 slowly and gradually. It is true, but seemingly inevitably.

Unintelligble

THE

THE "cubista" may have gone too lar: the same may have become

Other critics regard some of

period as the work of this terrible hoax.

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One thing Picasso did achieve; Ha demonstrated

that reality possiblo forms than the ones we find

has far more logically

in

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our Immediate world, No thing is so fixed as we think seen through different

eyes from another angle a thing springs to life as something wholly different.

game played for its zake, Many of the results unintelligible, may have been worthies: even. Certainly, ug in,

nothing produced with which most men would

want to decorate

and "Cubiem” "blue" called the

ever

"ro" periods of his career.

The "blue" period coincided walls. with his struggle to establist Most of the

time he Но penniless.

struggled wif

from Paris to Barcelona, and The lety of his back again. carker paintings gave way to a dep, cool blue.

was

Maw

His brush dug deep into the realities of form. He not only

through

the

superficial crabness of men and women to the stark terror which les in wall for anyone anywhere. also saw through that terror to a kind of calm peacefulness

Ho

the sort of emotion which, one

must saints

ftel imagines, beneath the pain of their tor- turey,

Three levels

their

that Yet no one could deny Picasso had cariched human ex-

opened perience,

another window on reality, seen with his mind what other men could not see, with their eyes.

had achieved greatness dony.

He

a kind of which no one coul

He himself was unmoved by the spectacle, He was unused whic

by the high-brow critics rushed in with praise, and by

the low-brow

who critics poured out cheese. He pottered Gout, peering at life, rolstering with his friends.

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point This is an elementary on which philosophers have long insisted. Whether it was a point worth making on acres of canvas is another matter.

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Still, Picasso almost daily re- established hla Kenuls craftsman, 26 a creative artist; and he remained the greatest living figure in the world of

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War came and Picasso lapsed under the German occupation of France into bitter silence and created little.

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Peace dove

colours and with gny HE celebrated the liberation almost leapt off ones which the canvas to testify to the fact that the human spirit had not been suppressed. He also joined the Communist Party-for rea- In 1010, he moved into

CONS DO OR can quite understand flat at 23 Rue le Boctie, and he

except that he had a deep emo- stayed there until 1951 when he

tional urge to do something to moved into his villa in Cannes TN his 1903 portrait, "Celeste."

impose an order on the world In all those

his mode years for instance, you can see ani

and

prevent any recurrence of of living appear the tragedy of 1930. old

woman, utterly broken, and standard cross-eyed, and disfigured. At to have changed hardly at all.

He first clance there is a dull

painted the dove which His painilig ald, however..

became the symbol of the Com- drabness about her, On looking

munist "peace offensives." deeper, it is almost impossible

But he did not sell his soul to not to feet her suffering. After

the Party. contemplating to painting for length of time, there is an overpowering sense of a wholly inexplicable peace.

any

Sudden switch

The

Ho began to draw almost

There was little trickery in as an infant, and his skill.

One day he appeared with a.

Stalin-o mark. scomed to be prodigious the pairing clean, crisp thes,

N the 20's, when the critics

had become infatuated with drawing of sharply accentuated perspective, from the start. He did not and features so arranged fut

"cubism," he suddenly switched brooding Stalin, emanating cyli to

in school

the the eye fastens Brast

All three levels genuinely to a classical style. Like his but revealing himself as a hol- go

The exist in the painting. It is not rose" period, his classical low mockery of a man, ordinary sense. Ils father aspect, then on another.

of movement comes a pretty pkture. But it cuts a rovival was an attempt to re- Party was up in name. was an art teacher, and he effect

path through the mysteries of store his emotional equilibrium.

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Picasso laughed He had shown. "taught" Pablo-though naturally.

fo Uke

There was a richness about his rawing and painting seem

work in there years which suge where he stood and that he matter how much Marxist smoke posted his struggle for a new could still see with his mind no balance:

figures

billowed around him, plump and well fed, his lines clear and bold.

to have been almost the Dangerous things··

sole ingredients of his child- hood education.

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Now he has agreed to's new project: he will paint some of the vast murals for the Unesco In the headquarters in Paris.

The concentration required to NOR was there anything repaint works like "Celeste" could he killing Picasso did not volutionary in the paintings.

linger over it. collectors may Nothing else interested Traditionalist him; no one led him to not have appreciated

By 1004, a gleam of sunlight Beyond that there wär

the people stature to Widy were dangerous things to think that anything else hand in

because had crept back into his paint paintings which suggested some one's house

ing. His "use" period is one of ancient Golden Age. The face Will they do what. Unosco was important.

they had a trick of focusingentie pastel shades, superb did not quite look as though diself has falled to to provide all attention on themselves.

draftmanship and enay grace. ming, from this world; the poses a lasting momento to the great His upbringing may have But that was no criticism. Many of the works are restful they acomed to strike suggested idons of a generation, Iving on

the odire of doom?" thrown his life out of

Picasso, of course, was not to look at, socthing like a su an eternity of ime, pl balance. His long, stormy atience. He had notved oneret, They might have been and ultimately broken mar technical problem; he had, executed by an elderly moholme, riage to Olga Koklova, the painted pictures with a life of wholly at peace with his world.

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'Abruptly, again classicism gave way to experiment.

Or will Pleaseo, hævero, quiet laugh at Unmob, too?