Picasso, a painter with a poet’s soul

2023-07-14 14:04:25
He always lived surrounded not only by painters and sculptors, but also by writers: Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Paul Éluard, Michel Leiris, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Reverdy, Benjamin Péret, Tristan Tzara… He surrounded himself with poets in Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona and in the bohemian Parisian Montmartre. At the door of his workshop at the Bateau-Lavoir, where he gave life to ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’, he read a sign: ‘Meeting place for poets’. Picasso was recognized by these as one of their own. “Painting is poetry,” Picasso said to Françoise Gilot. But he always doubted his quality as a writer and whether he should publish his texts: “It’s like getting completely naked when it’s not the time.” Many other plastic artists too… See More
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