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Pablo Picasso: Sculptures
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This performer motif persisted with Picasso's first sculptures, which were inspired by the voluptuous figures of Dutch women he painted during a trip to Holland in 1905. Picasso began The Jester (1905-1906) after returning one night from a trip to the circus. The sculptural works following this one show the influence of Greek art, and even the painted figures maintain a sculpted look.
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By 1906 Picasso had become interested in sculptures from the Iberian peninsula dating from about the 6th to the 3rd century bc. Picasso must have found them of particular interest both because they are native to Spain and because they display remarkable simplification of form. The Iberian influence is immediately visible in Self-Portrait (1906, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania), in which Picasso reduced the Picture of his head to an oval and his eyes to almond shapes... revealing his increasing fascination with geometric simplification of form.
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The face in Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906) reveals still another new interest: its mask-like abstraction was inspired by Iberian sculpture, an exhibition of which Picasso had seen at the Louvre, in Paris, in the spring of 1906. This influence reached its fullest expression a year later in one of the most revolutionary pictures of Picasso's entire career, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907).
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One of the first examples of the revolutionary sculpture is Picasso's “Woman's Head” (1909). The sculptor no longer relied upon traditional methods of sculpture or upon his sensory experience of the body; what was given to his outward senses of sight and touch was dominated by strong conceptualizing.
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