Picasso's etchings on display
Updated: 2014-03-28 11:39
By Lin Qi (China Daily)
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The 100 plates fall into six parts, while they need to be appreciated in their entirety to be a reflection of Picasso's life changes over time, as well as his anxieties over the worsening political situation at the dawn of World War II.
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Art critics suggest it indicates Picasso's marital vicissitudes juggling between his wife, Olga Khokhlova, and Marie-Therese Walter, his mistress and muse 28 years his junior.
The Vollard Suite is a study in etching for Picasso and the artist used a number of techniques, including aquatinting, dry point and hot embossing.
"Picasso carried out a profound self-examination of his contradictory feelings and impulses, in a way much like writing visual diaries. The set is a representative testament to his creative eruption when in the 1930s he experimented with different art styles," she says.
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