Picasso - Wives and Lovers, Picasso Painting, by k Madison Moore, PA Artist

Picasso - Wives and Lovers

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I posed this a few months ago and decided to rework the entire painting and add a lot more detail.

I added a lot more glazes for depth and highlights that I wish could be seen better with a camera.
So many of my collectors mention that they saw so many more things in the painting once in hand.
Maybe if I was a better photographer? This is a great painting with a great story!  Enjoy!


This was so much work, so much research and so much fun! I decided to research all the woman in Picasso's life and this is what I came up with. There were sooo many that I actually had to paint this on a larger canvas of 12 x 16 to fit them all in!  This is just the main wives and lovers and the ones that he painted. There were several more. Here is a little history on them from left on the easel,  to right and the 2 wives seated at the table. Notice Picasso peeking down from the staircase at all of his beauties.
On the steps is one of Picasso's hats and a box of cigars that I found he smoked. The flooring is also a clip from one of his paintings and full of color. Candles, Wine, Picasso, Wives and Lovers.
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Picasso's Women

1912-1915

 Picasso took an interest in Marcelle Humbert, known as Eva Gouel (1885-1915).  Picasso was devastated by her early death due to tuberculosis or cancer in 1915.   Picasso professed his love to Eva by painting "I Love Eva" in some of his paintings.   Still, during Eva's sickness Picasso managed a  relationship with Gaby Lespinasse.  (Picasso's father died in May, 1913 at the time that Eva moved in with him.)  

1917-1927

In 1917 ballerina Olga Khokhlova (1891-1955) met Picasso while the artist was designing the ballet "Parade" in Rome, to be performed by the Ballet Russe.  They married in the Russian Orthodox church in Paris in 1918 and lived a life of conflict.  She was of high society and enjoyed formal events while Picasso was more bohemian in his interests and pursuits.  Their son Paulo (Paul) was born in 1921 (and died in 1975), influencing Picasso's imagery to turn to mother and child themes.  Paul's three children are Pablito (1949-1973), Marina (born in 1951), and Bernard (1959).  Some of the Picassos in this Saper Galleries exhibition are from Marina and Bernard's  personal Picasso collection.

1936-1944

In 1936 54-year old Picasso met Yugoslavian Dora Maar (1907 -1997), the photographer who documented Picasso's painting of Guernica, the 1937 painting of Picasso's depiction of the German's having bombed the Basque city of Guernica, Spain during the Spanish Civil War.   She became Picasso's constant companion and lover from 1936 through April, 1944.  Maar went back to painting and exhibited in Paris soon after Picasso left her for Françoise.  Picasso referred to Dora as his "private muse".  In later years she became a recluse, dying poor and alone.

1927-1936

 In 1927 Picasso met Marie-Thérèse Walter (1909-1977), a 17 year old who Picasso then lived with in a flat across the street from his marital home (while still married to Olga).  Marie-Thérèse and  Picasso had a daughter, Maya (Maria de la Concepcion) on October 5, 1935.  (Picasso and Olga later separated although they remained married so Olga would not receive half of Picasso's wealth -- until she died in 1955. )   Picasso's relation with Marie was kept from Olga until Olga was told of Marie's pregnancy.   Marie understandably became jealous when Picasso started to fall in love with Dora Maar in 1936, a year after Maya was born.  It was Marie-Thérèse who was the inspiration for many of Picasso's famous Vollard Suite etchings.  Marie-Thérèse died by hanging herself in 1977, four years after Picasso died.  Maya's son, Olivier Widmaier wrote "Picasso: The Real Family Story" about his artist grandfather, in 2004.

 1904-1912

Artist model Fernande Olivier (1881-1966) was Picasso's first long term relation and subject of many of Picasso's Rose Period paintings (1905-07).   Picasso met her after settling in Paris in 1904.  Although Fernande was married, she stayed with Picasso for 7 years.  Fernande modeled for other artists between 1900 and 1905 after which she moved in with "the Spanish artist", Picasso, who then prevented her from modeling for others.  Fernande's having published selections from the memoirs of her life with Picasso infuriated the artist but eventually, at age 70, Picasso paid the ailing and bedridden Fernande a small pension.  The full memoir was not published until 1988, "Loving Picasso".  In early 2004 the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. had an exhibition of 60 portraits of Fernande that Picasso painted in a few months of 1909.

1943-1953

In 1943 Picasso (age 62) then kept company with young art student Françoise Gilot (born in 1921).  Their two children were Claude (1947) and Paloma (1949) who was named for the dove of peace that Picasso painted in support of the peace movement post World War II.  Gilot, frustrated with Picasso's relationships with other woman and his abusive nature left him in 1953.   Gilot's book "Life with Picasso" was published 11 years after their separation.  In 1970 she married American physician-researcher Jonas Salk (who later died in 1995).  

1953-1973

Dejected and alone, in 1953 Picasso met Jacqueline Roque (1926 -1986) at the Madoura Pottery where Picasso created his ceramics.  In 1961 (when Picasso was 79) she became his second wife.   Picasso created more works of art based on Jacqueline than any of his other loves, in one year painting over 70 portraits of her.

When Picasso died on April 8, 1973, Jacqueline, who had been with Picasso for 20 years, prevented Picasso's children Claude and Paloma from attending his funeral.  Jacqueline died from shooting herself in 1986.

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Waiting for Her Ship to Come In - " Inspired by Matisse", by k Madison Moore

Waiting for Her Ship to Come In

Inspired by Matisse

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I always love my inspirations from Matisse as I get to use and mix patterns and many colors and somehow they always come out great!  She is just napping there by the window in the summer breeze

with a nice glass of red.....while "Waiting for Her Ship to Come In". Hummmm...wonder who's on the ship?

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Lovers and Other Strangers- After Guayasamin, by k Madison Moore

Lovers and Other Strangers 

after Guayasamin

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I think what I like about Guayasamin is that his work is so emotional. Many of his paintings are sad but beautiful. They make you think. They make you feel. I love that. Each one I look at pulls me in and makes me wonder  about the emotions on each face. Am I reading their emotions correctly or did Guayasamin mean something else totally different?

His use of large hands is so interesting. . Maybe because we use our hands and a means of communicating. He did several series on just hands. Hands depicting emotion such as love, anger, fear.
and protest. Here is a link where you can quickly view them. http://www.guayasamin.org/pages_ing/index.htmlhttp://www.guayasamin.org/pages_ing/index.html
They say that the first thing we look at when communicating is the face and second the hands.
Interesting!

Guayasamin's painting of the lovers is my very favorite and I have painted it several times in different manners. When I was browsing my extensive collection of artists photos for a background painting for this composition, I came across one of Oswaldo's paintings of masks. I understand that he had an extensive collection from all over the world including his own sculptures. I fell in love with this piece for obvious reasons. He is another artist that liked to use brilliant colors as you well know I do. If you look closely you will see that all of the mask faces are blending one into the other almost as one
unit yet there are 10 faces. This painting called for a large canvas of 24 x 24 inches  to appreciate the details and colors.

When I was painting all of those faces I was wondering who the faces were painted after. Where they his friends, where they his relatives, lovers or just strangers. Needless to say this is how the theme and the tile were born for this painting - ' Lovers and Other Strangers"



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Oswaldo Guayasamín (6 July 1919, Quinto, Ecuador  – 10 March 1999, Baltimore, United States was a Quechua Indian and Ecuadorian master painter.

Oswaldo Guayasamín was born in Quito,to a native father and a Mestiza mother, both of Quechua descent.[His family was poor and his father worked as a carpenter for most of his life. He later worked as a taxi and truck driver. He was the first child of ten children in his family. When he was young, he enjoyed drawing caricatures of his teachers and the children that he played with. He showed an early love for art. He created a Pan-American art of human and social inequalities which achieved international recognition.

He graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Quito as a Painter and  sculptor. He also studied architecture there. He held his first exhibition when he was 23, in 1942. While he was attending college, his best friend died during a demonstration in Quito. This incident would later inspire one of his paintings, "Los Niños Muertos." This event also helped him to form his vision about the people and the society that he lived in.

His death on March 10, 1999 was marked by a day of national strikes by the indigenous people (whom he spent his life supporting) and other sectors of society, and was considered a great loss to Ecuador. He is still lauded as a national treasure.

In 2002, three years after his death, Oswaldo's masterwork,  La Capilla Del Hombre("The Chapel of Man"), was completed and opened to the public. The Chapel is meant to document not only man's cruelty to man but also the potential for greatness within humanity. It is co-located with Guayasamín's home in the hills overlooking Quito.

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"Tender is The Night- Dreaming of Alfons", Mucha Painting by k Madison Moore

Tender is The Night - Dreaming of Alfons
Inspired by Alfons Mucha

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Every once in awhile I want to paint something after Alponse Mucha. He had such a delicate, soft touch to his work and really painted such beautiful dreamy looking women. Here we have 2 beauties from two different Mucha paintings, with several alterations.

"Summer" painted 1896, is the title of Mucha's beauty leaning on the chair back , lower left. In his painting her eyes were open but since I have both women dreaming obviously I had to paint them closed. What better Mucha painting to use as reference for the other beauty in the window but Mucha's painting "Night" also 1896.  Even Mucha's back grounds have a very dreamy affect. Take a look at some of the back grounds he painted behind his subjects and you will see what I mean. In his painting "Night', the moon is shining through the tress on a moonlit night. It may be difficult to see that detail in this photo so you may want to visit some of the links below to check out his beautiful work. This painting has that classical, yet Art Nouveau, typical Mucha style.

Tender is The Night with two beautiful woman created by and dreaming of their creator, Alphonse Mucha.

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Alfons Maria Mucha 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known in English as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, best known for his distinct style and his images of women. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs.

He worked at decorative painting jobs in Moravia, mostly painting theatrical scenery. In 1879, he moved to  Vienna to work for a leading Viennese theatrical design company, while informally furthering his artistic education. When a fire destroyed his employer's business in 1881 he returned to Moravia, to do freelance decorative and portrait painting.

Mucha produced a flurry of paintings, posters, advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewelry, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets in what was initially called the Mucha Style but became known as  Art Nouveau (French for 'new art'). Mucha's works frequently featured beautiful, strong young women in flowing vaguely Neoclassical looking robes, often surrounded by lush flowers which sometimes formed halos behind women's heads.

The Art Nouveau style however, was one that Mucha attempted to distance himself from throughout his life; he always insisted that rather than adhering to any fashionable stylistic form, his paintings came purely from within and Czech art. He declared that art existed only to communicate a spiritual message, and nothing more; hence his frustration at the fame he gained through commercial art , when he most wanted to concentrate on more lofty projects that would ennoble art and his birthplace.

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Alphone Mucha at Olga's Gallery

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Three Artists - "after van Gogh and Gauguin" Painting by k Madison Moore Mt Pocono Pennsylvania Artist

Three Artists

after van Gogh and Gauguin

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Who doesn't love van Gogh. There is always something more to learn about the masters.

Researching a concept for a new van Gogh Art within Art painting I came across a photo 

of a portrait that Gauguin painted of van Gogh.  The concept I was going for was to take van Gogh's painting of his bedroom and redecorate it. Then when I saw the portrait of van Gogh I thought it would be cool to have Gauguin's portrait of van Gogh painting,  inside of Vincent's bedroom...that makes two artists, then me painting them makes three - " Three Artists"

All of the paintings in the room are my take on van Goghs works as well as all of the vases of sunflowers in the room. He also did many paintings of his own shoes and boots so I thought his shoes on the floor were perfect. I've always liked working in this palette of colors, so warm!

This is the first 16 x 16 I have done and I am now working on a 16 x 20 and a

Peter Max commission of 30 x 24. A lot of work and a lot of fun!

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Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin were two of the greatest painters of the late 19th century. A brief but intense collaboration occurred between the two artists. They met in Paris in the autumn of 1887. Each man tried to learn from the other and admired the othe's work. Their collaboration was marked at first by mutual support and dialogue, but there was also competition and friction. The men differed sharply in their views on art: Gauguin favored working from memory and allowing abstract mental processes to shape his images, while Vincent held an unshakable reverence for the physical reality of the observable world of models and Nature. This is reflected in the very different techniques each artist used. But toward the end of 1888, a series of violent incidents around Christmas Eve brought a dramatic end to their collaboration. This is the story of their personal and professional relationship.

http://soundprint.org/radio/display_show/ID/199/name/Van+Gogh+and+Gauguin

This is a very interesting story that I found and wanted to share with you.

'Self-portrait with cut ear' by Vincent Van Gogh. Photograph: Roger-Viollet/Rex Features
Vincent van Gogh's fame may owe as much to a legendary act of self-harm, as it does to his self-portraits. But, 119 years after his death, the tortured post-Impressionist's bloody ear is at the centre of a new controversy, after two historians suggested that the painter did not hack off his own lobe but was attacked by his friend, the French artist Paul Gauguin.

According to official versions, the disturbed Dutch painter cut off his ear with a razor after a row with Gauguin in 1888. Bleeding heavily, Van Gogh then walked to a brothel and presented the severed ear to an astonished prostitute called Rachel before going home to sleep in a blood-drenched bed.
But two German art historians, who have spent 10 years reviewing the police investigations, witness accounts and the artists' letters, argue that Gauguin, a fencing ace, most likely sliced off the ear with his sword during a fight, and the two artists agreed to hush up the truth.

In Van Gogh's Ear: Paul Gauguin and the Pact of Silence, published in Germany, Hamburg-based academics Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans argue that the official version of events, based largely on Gauguin's accounts, contain inconsistencies and that both artists hinted that the truth was more complex.

Van Gogh and Gauguin's troubled friendship was legendary. In 1888, Van Gogh persuaded him to come to Arles in the south of France to live with him in the Yellow House he had set up as a "studio of the south". They spent the autumn painting together before things soured. Just before Christmas, they fell out. Van Gogh, seized by an attack of a metabolic disease became aggressive and was apparently crushed when Gauguin said he was leaving for good.

Kaufmann told the Guardian: "Near the brothel, about 300 metres from the Yellow House, there was a final encounter between them: Vincent might have attacked him, Gauguin wanted to defend himself and to get rid of this 'madman'. He drew his weapon, made some movement in the direction of Vincent and by that cut off his left ear." Kaufmann said it was not clear if it was an accident or an aimed hit.
While curators at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam stand by the theory of self-mutilation, Kaufmann argues that Van Gogh dropped hints in letters to his brother, Theo, once commenting : "Luckily Gauguin ... is not yet armed with machine guns and other dangerous war weapons."
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How Sweet It Is!, "Homage to Wayne Thiebaud," by k Madison Moore Mt Pocono Pennsylvania Artist

 How Sweet It Is!

Homage to Wayne Thiebaud

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 I used to paint a lot of food still life paintings but this was "totally" different and such a challenge.
Most of my most recent food paintings are 16 x 20 and larger and were one or two items. In How Sweet It Is, everything is tiny, tiny! I always wanted to paint a bakery and just love Wayne Thiebaud's pastries and goodies. Thiebaud used very thick layers of paint and painted very large so the paint actually looked like frosting. Of course these renditions of his goodies are so small that I could not use that technique. However, I crammed as many of his works in to this little bakery as I could and Oh Boy, did it take a long time to do all that detail!  I think using the check floor and table cloth and the old chrome kitchen chairs was a great fit for this composition. I have included several close up shots here for the details. Enjoy!

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 Cakes by Theibaud

Pies by Theibaud

Wayne Thiebaud (born Mesa, Arizona, November 23, 1920) is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. His last name is pronounced "Tee-bo." He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, however, his works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. He has also been seen, due to his true to life representations, as a predecessor to photorealism. Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work. Wayne Thiebaud is one of the most prominent of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in California in the latter part of the 20th century.

He spent time in New York City where he became friends with Willem De Kooning and Franz Kline and was much influenced by these abstractionists as well as proto pop artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. During this time, he began a series of very small paintings based on images of food displayed in windows, and he focused on their basic shapes.

 Thiebaud's son Paul has taken over as his dealer. Paul Thiebaud has been a successful art dealer in his own right and has eponymous galleries in Manhattan and San Francisco.
In 1962 Thiebauds's work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Robert Dowd, in the historically important and ground-breaking "New Painting of Common Objects," curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum. This exhibition is historically considered one of the first Pop Art exhibitions in America. These painters were part of a new movement, in a time of social unrest, which shocked America and the art world and changed art forever.

He was associated with the Pop art painters because of his interest in objects of mass culture, however, his works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists, suggesting that Thiebaud may have had an influence on the movement. Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work.

In addition to pastries, Thiebaud has painted landscapes, streetscapes, and popular characters such as Mickey Mouse. His recent paintings such as Sunset Streets (1985) and Flatland River (1997) are noted for their hyper realism, and are in some ways similar to Edward Hopper's work, who was fascinated with mundane scenes from everyday American life.

In his painting, he focuses on the commonplace in a way that suggests irony and objective distance from his subjects. He also makes a point of keeping an independent distance from the New York School.
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In The Round with Kandinsky, after Wassily Kandinsky, by k Madison Moore Mount Pocono Pennsylvania Artist

In The Round with Kandinsky

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Ahhhhh....feels so good to be finally painting and posting again. April is so busy with everyone doing taxes and the holidays. I took the rest of my time in April to get my studio back together with the new tables and shelving, finished up a lot of commission projects and did several new paintings. Now I am ready to roll again!

With all the running around I have been doing I sometimes feel like I am going in circles, especially with the remodel of my house in between taking forever and everything else that I have been doing so I guess this painting reflects just that.

I love circles anyway. Even many pieces of my jewelry are circles. Hummm. is that a good thing? The world is round, the sun is round, the wedding ring is round, the circle of life...I guess it's all good!

Kandinsky is so cool. He felt the colors. He said he actually heard  music with each color he painted. Each color had it's own tune. When I read this I immediately had an idea for yet another Kandinsky painting  that I will be doing in the future. Stay tuned.  Enjoy!

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Wassily Wasilyevich Kandinsky was born on December, 16th (4), 1866 in Moscow, in a well-to-do family of a businessman in a good cultural environment. In 1871 the family moved to Odessa where his father ran his tea factory. There, alongside with attending a classical gymnasium (grammar school), the boy learned to play the piano and the cello and took to drawing with a coach. "I remember that drawing and a little bit later painting lifted me out of the reality", he wrote later. In Kandinsky's works of his childhood period we can find rather specific color combinations, which he explained by the fact that "each color lives by its mysterious life". Dies: December 1944

Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most original and influential artists of the twentieth-century. His "inner necessity" to express his emotional perceptions led to the development of an abstract style of painting that was based on the non-representational properties of color and form. Kandinsky's compositions were the culmination of his efforts to create a "pure painting" that would provide the same emotional power as a musical composition. The exhibition "Kandinsky: Compositions", organized by Magdalena Dabrowski and on display at the Los Angeles County Art Museum until September 3, 1995, presents these monumental works together for the first and possibly last time and provides an opportunity to witness the creative process of Kandinsky.

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