id: 152009
accession number: 1984.61
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.61
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Still Life under a Lamp, 1962. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Linoleum cut; image: 53.1 x 64 cm (20 7/8 x 25 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1984.61 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Still Life under a Lamp
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creation date: 1962
creation date earliest: 1962
creation date latest: 1962
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: Spain, 20th century
technique: linoleum cut
department: Prints
collection: PR - Linocut
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Bloch I.231.1101
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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.
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measurements: Image: 53.1 x 64 cm (20 7/8 x 25 3/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review for 1984
opening date: 1985-04-03T05:00:00
Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).
title: Printing in Color
opening date: 1985-09-10T04:00:00
Printing in Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985).
title: Object in Focus: Picasso, Still Life Under a Lamp, 1962 [linoleum cut 1984.61]
opening date: 2001-10-30T00:00:00
Object in Focus: Picasso, Still Life Under a Lamp, 1962 [linoleum cut 1984.61]. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 30-November 25, 2001).
title: Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection
opening date: 2003-08-17T00:00:00
Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003).
title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00
Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Planas, Clausstre Rafart. "Materials and Techniques." In Picasso and Paper. William H. Robinson, et al., 292-313. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2020.
page number: Reproduced: P. 301, cat. no. 316
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