Master Drawings By Picasso

Description for MASTER DRAWINGS BY PICASSO by Gary Tinterow:

World-renowned as a painter, Pablo Picasso is also regarded as one of the finest draughtsmen of the 20th century and has been compared with Raphael and Ingres as one of the great "masters of line" of the Western tradition. This book is the first scholarly study in English to survey all of Picasso's works on paper. From Picasso's enormous output, art historian Gary Tinterow has selected 102 important works for detailed examination. He points out that there is no stylistic line separating Picasso's drawings from his paintings. Picasso's work is instead a continuous flow of ideas, sometimes executed on canvas, sometimes on paper. The book describes whole series of themes, modes, and approaches which Picasso explored in drawings but never translated into paintings. For Picasso, Tinterow maintains, line was supreme, and the study of his draughtsmanship is the key for unlocking the complexity of Picasso's art. MASTER DRAWINGS BY PICASSO thus takes an intimate look at the works in the medium closest to Picasso's soul.