Picasso: Challenging the Past

by Elizabeth Cowling, Anne Robbins, Christopher Riopelle, et al.

Book Overview

From his earliest years Pablo Picasso was a passionate student of the European painting tradition. He was naturally drawn to the Spanish masters Vel?zquez and Goya, but such figures as Rembrandt, Delacroix, Ingres, Manet, and C?zanne were also important artistic heroes. Picasso repeatedly pitted himself against these masters, taking up their signature themes, techniques, and artistic concerns in audacious paintings of his own. Sometimes his "quotations"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857094522
• ISBN13: 9781857094527
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: National Gallery London
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.2" x 11.3"