The Shape of Color:
Picasso’s Painted Sculptures
by Anna Tahinci
“One never stops seeking because one never finds.” - Pablo Picasso
With an apparent effortlessness, Picasso’s ingenious sense of creativity transformed everyday objects and shapes into expressive figures filled with verve. His inventive force and sense of humor, based on either innovative forms or juxtaposition of unlikely objects, opened up new directions for modern sculpture, while his use of color gave his sculptures a new vitality. From his first carved and painted wood figures in 1906 and his Glass of Absinthe in painted bronze in 1914, to the 1960s series of cut out and painted sheet-metal pieces, paint served as an indicator of multiple facets, volumes and perspectives, giving his sculptures the pulse of life.
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