Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning발음듣기
Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning
[Dr. Steven Zucker] We're in the Musée Picasso, in Paris and we're looking at a little oval painting by Pablo Picasso called 'Still Life with Chair Caning'.발음듣기
[Dr. Steven Zucker] This is collage. Picasso has introduced this printed, industrial material.발음듣기
It had been done also by George Braqué, Picasso's collaborator in Cubism. Introducing mechanically reproduced imagery into a painting is a violation of so much of what painting had been about.발음듣기
[Dr. Steven Zucker] The illusionistic creation of depth it had been so much a part of painting since the Renaissance is here emphatically two-dimensional because we're aware of this oil cloth.발음듣기
[Dr. Beth Harris] I also noticed the letters 'J-O-U', writing on something, you know, you write on paper that also is a very flat surface.발음듣기
[Dr. Steven Zucker] There's no question that lettering is on a surface and so writing on a canvas destroys the illusion of depth.발음듣기
That's an idea that had been introduced also by Braqué, originally, but here, it has a double meaning. Look at the off-kilter rectangle.발음듣기
[Dr. Beth Harris] But it could also, since we're in Paris be part of the word 'jouer' which means to play which is exactly what I was saying Picasso is doing with space.발음듣기
And in any case, those letters have become independent of any printed matter, any magazine or newspaper that they were part of and rides ambiguously on the surface of the painting.발음듣기
[Dr. Steven Zucker] And what we're looking at is a depiction by Picasso of the stem of a pipe.발음듣기
You can see clearly a white pipe perhaps one made of clay. You can see the white of the stem you can see the bowl.발음듣기
[Dr. Beth Harris] Meaning a kind of taking apart and you just referred to the taking apart of the pipe.발음듣기
And so, I'm looking for other still-life elements because after all, that's the title of this painting, 'Still Life in Chair Caning', so what might be on a Parisienne tabletop, a glass of wine perhaps~?발음듣기
[Dr. Steven Zucker] And we see a piece of stemware with the bowl at the top, with a stem and with a round base.발음듣기
The problem is, is that Picasso seems to be, and this is central to understanding what Braqué and Picasso were trying to do with Cubism.발음듣기
This glass seems to be seen from a variety of different angles, different perspectives or points of view.발음듣기
So, for instance, it looks as if we're looking down at the base, but perhaps across at the stem, and then the bowl of the glass is completely fragmented.발음듣기
[Dr. Beth Harris] For hundreds of years since the Renaissance, the idea of depicting something from one vantage point, at one moment of time that was the standard.발음듣기
That's what paintings were. And so this is a revolutionary thing to do, and calls into question not only hundreds of years of illusionism, but also how we see, how we experience the world.발음듣기
Cézanne had begun to explore this idea in the late 19th century. He's quite famous for his still lives.발음듣기
And what Cézanne did is place and apple on a table and look at it from in front but then perhaps he would lean forward and look down at the apple ever so slightly.발음듣기
Picasso and Braqué pushed that further, and begin to say, "How can I explore the full visual experience of the forms on what is here, actually a cafe table.발음듣기
[Dr. Beth Harris] With a rope as a frame, the way that we perhaps might see something holding in place the edges of a tablecloth at a cafe.발음듣기
[Dr. Steven Zucker] And also poking a little bit of fun at the ornate frames with which paintings are often exhibited.발음듣기
[Dr. Beth Harris] If you walk through The Louvre you see all sorts of ornate gold frames and so this idea of including industrial, pre-fabricated, not custom-made materials.발음듣기
[Dr. Steven Zucker] Although, in this case the rope was custom-made by a rope maker so that it would fit this oval canvas.발음듣기
On the right, you can see the handle on the blade of a knife and a bit of citrus. Maybe a lemon, maybe a lime ...발음듣기
Below that, the scalloping of a napkin. And so all of these elements are things that you might see on a glass cafe table.발음듣기
And then to fit it all together the chair caning that gives the painting its title perhaps that's a chair that's been tucked under the table that we're looking down at.발음듣기
[Dr. Beth Harris] Again, thinking about 'jouer', playing with the idea of the painting as a window through which we view reality this is an idea that's so central to western painting since the Renaissance.발음듣기
[Dr. Steven Zucker] But here Picasso is placing both shadow and reflection on that glass tabletop.발음듣기
[Dr. Beth Harris] The great irony, it seems to me here though, is that pre-fabricated chair caning that he's purchased and cut out and glued to the surface of this canvas does a better job at providing an illusion than the paint does.발음듣기
Which is what painting has been supposed to have been doing for hundreds of years, but now, a manufacturing process can do it better.발음듣기
[Dr. Steven Zucker] And it makes clear that the art is in the poetry, in the intellectual pursuit in the investigation, in the analytic disassembly of what we see in the philosophical investigation rather than in the craftsmanship.발음듣기
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