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Reflections on Picasso and Masaccio

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



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