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Reflections on Picasso and Masaccio

A few years ago I had the good fortune to is often seen in works alluding to
visit Barcelona for a week and feast my something higher or deeper but lacking
eyes and heart on that city's rich visual any solid foundation. How can I say this?
heritage. During this time I visited the Well I can only go on my inner feeling
Picasso museum, which chronicles his life when I look at art and if a piece moves
by displaying drawings, paintings and me then I am grateful and encouraged, and
sculptures selected from his prolific if it doesn't move me, then I move on.I
output. It does appear true that in his would like to recommend Masaccio
youth he could draw as well as many a (1401-1428) to anyone that has not heard
master before him. `Conventional' in of him. He is regarded as the first great
execution, his early drawings are painter of the Italian Renaissance and
testament to his huge talent and skill, greatly influenced those who came after
which he used in various ways throughout him. I love his work not because of his
his career.As Picasso went through life, ground-breaking use of perspective, but
he seemed to be searching for a way to for the power and emotion that underpin
draw like a child again and produce works them. Two of his pictures that move me
that had the simplicity and spontaneous most profoundly are frescoes painted for
magic of a child's creation. However, the Brancacci Chapel, Italy. They are:
there is a period in his life around `Saint Peter Baptizing' and `The
1922-23 when he produced the works that I Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise'.
love the most. I have a card entitled These contain a volcanic energy that
`Mother and Child', a reproduction of a simmers and boils, barely contained
Picasso whose original is currently in within the painted surface of the works.
the Baltimore Museum of Art that is so It came as no surprise to me that he was
beautiful it almost makes me weep to see a deeply spiritual person and his
it. It shows two figures so utterly at religious works reflect this. In
ease with each other, in a soft and contrast, many of those who came after
tender exchange that it conveys him produced work that was technically
perfection in contentment and mutual more advanced and refined but lacking
self-absorption.Softness and tenderness spiritual depth. Michelangelo had power,
are two qualities that actually rarely Raphael had refinement, Leonardo had
appeal to me in the art world, which is vision, but Masaccio had Purity and for
funny as these heart qualities often come me, Purity winsEd Silverton is an artist
to the fore when I'm trying to do from Bristol. He studied art at Bristol
something myself. Maybe it's because so College and works as a freelance artist
much of what is in the art- world does specialising in ceramics and pottery. His
not appeal to me that I welcome the work embodies beauty and simplicity. His
`justice-light' aspect of powerful art. I art is influenced by his meditation
imagine it cutting through the dross of teacher Sri Chinmoy who is also an artist
mediocrity and soppy sentimentality that himself.




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