Summary
Gertrude Stein: Picasso
This inspiring and unconventional examination of the work of Pablo Picasso by the American writer and patron of the arts Gertrude Stein is at the same time a precious testimony from a privileged proximity about his private life and about their friendship, as well as association with some of the greatest artists of the first half of the last century.
Unlike her, says Gertrude Stein, »Picasso writes with drawings and paintings... Only Picasso sees something else, another reality. Complications are always simple, but a different vision compared to the vision of the whole world is very rare. That's why geniuses are a rare phenomenon, to complicate things in new ways is not difficult, but to see things in a new way is truly difficult - everything prevents a person from this, habits, schooling, everyday life, reason, the necessities of everyday life, indolence, everything prevents him from doing so... There are actually very few geniuses in the world." pragmatism and Iberian polycentrism at a reception in Paris;
in accordance with the dimensions of a heroic epoch which, as is often the case with the past, we judge with empathy and smoldering nostalgia. Two artists, not as twins but as friends, even antipodes, aware that in the mirror of mutual examination they mirror an equally universal fate.
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