Pablo Picasso, Guitar, Glass, and Bottle
About this video
Filmed in MoMA's storage, this video looks at Picasso's Glass, Bottle, and Guitar (1913). Cubist painters including Georges Braque had begun adding non-art materials like wallpaper and newspaper to their pictures, and a few snippets appear here. Picasso also used tools such as cardboard to manipulate the paint itself, making this one of his most complex paintings of the period in texture and surface effects.
You'll be able to
- name non-traditional materials cubist artists added to their pictures.
- explain what makes this painting complex in terms of texture and surface.
- describe how Picasso used tools other than brushes to manipulate paint.
Key words
- Collage
- Adding cut materials like newspaper or wallpaper to a picture.
- Texture
- How the surface of a work looks or feels, rough or smooth.
- Surface effects
- The different ways paint and materials look on the picture's surface.
- Cubism
- The movement led by Picasso and Braque that broke objects into flat, overlapping shapes.
Transcript
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