tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post7447847448681080983..comments2024-01-30T23:07:06.282-08:00Comments on FetishGhost's Secret Studio: Did Picasso Have an Artist Statement?FetishGhosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06139502682128929276noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-44078686601764928472013-04-28T05:05:05.287-07:002013-04-28T05:05:05.287-07:00If he had one, did anyone bother to read it?If he had one, did anyone bother to read it?Tracey Broomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14560971496423789576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866180891664441.post-65805114652881321352013-04-27T04:50:12.829-07:002013-04-27T04:50:12.829-07:00It's difficult to give a short answer to this ...It's difficult to give a short answer to this question. Picasso learned with his father in Spain, his father was a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts. Picasso wanted to escape the academic way of painting as many painters before, the official way in Europe to have an artist statement. <br /><br />He decided to come in France, one of his paintings was selected for the universal exhibition 1900. He studied many artists in "Musée du Louvre" : Ingres, Delacroix, Cézanne, Lautrec, Bonnard, Degas.<br /><br />After many years without money, he was able to sell many paintings in his workshop to american people :Lea and Gertrude Stein. The art dealer Daniel-Henry Kanhweiler, was able to understand the very new way of painting of Picasso : cubism, "Les Demiselles d'Avignon". Most of Picasso's paintings were sold in US.<br /><br />I think that Picasso's artist statement was to pay taxes to the French governement. Now his descendants are part of an association ADAGP http://www.adagp.fr/ which cares to enforce the copyright, that means the reproductions of his works are taxed and due to his descendants.Armelle Léonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02168594267333506636noreply@blogger.com