id: 142942 accession number: 1966.567 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.567 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:18.173000 Vollard Suite: Masked Figures and Bird-Woman, 1934. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Aquatint and etching; sheet: 33.8 x 44.5 cm (13 5/16 x 17 1/2 in.); platemark: 24.8 x 34.7 cm (9 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund 1966.567 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Masked Figures and Bird-Woman title in original language: series: Vollard Suite series in original language: creation date: 1934 creation date earliest: 1934 creation date latest: 1934 current location: creditline: The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: Spain, 20th century technique: aquatint and etching department: Prints collection: PR - Aquatint type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Bloch; 227; Geiser II.227.441 --- CREATORS * Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) - artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), the most prolific and influential artist of the 20th century, shifted the emphasis of art from its traditional concern with beauty toward radical innovation. The son of an art teacher, Picasso demonstrated remarkable talents as a child and entered the royal art academy in Madrid at age sixteen. Less than a year later, he abandoned his studies and soon joined several avant-garde artist and anarchist groups in Barcelona and Paris. After passing through a succession of stylistic periods, most notably the Blue (1901-1904) and Rose (1904-1906) Periods, he collaborated with Georges Braque (1882-1963) in 1908 to invent Cubism, a revolutionary method of restructuring pictorial space. Picasso remained active until his death in 1973. Although his art still appears radical, many of his works are over one hundred years old. Cubism, perhaps the most important development in 20th-century art, was invented around 1908 by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963). The most revolutionary aspect of the style was not its obvious emphasis on geometric form; rather, it was the introduction of a radically new approach to configuring pictorial space. Since the Renaissance, artists had used various methods to create the illusion of distant space receding behind the canvas surface. The Cubists rejected that idea and collapsed space by compressing foreground, middle ground, and background into a continuous web of overlapping, intersecting planes. During the 1910s, other painters and sculptors embraced or adapted Cubism to their own ends. This revolutionary approach inspired a host of related movements and continues to influence the visual language of artists, architects, and designers throughout the world. --- measurements: Sheet: 33.8 x 44.5 cm (13 5/16 x 17 1/2 in.); Platemark: 24.8 x 34.7 cm (9 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.) state of the work: IIc/IIc edition of the work: support materials: description: laid watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Roten Galleries, Inc.) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES