Pablo Picasso would sometimes squeeze a vase before the clay had hardened, molding it into a representational shape. "To give it life," he once said, "I have to wring its neck." Delighted that he could make the clay respond to any fantasy that passed through his mind, he shaped mythologicat figures such as fauns and satyrs, as well as vases representing graceful women, bulls, goats, fish, and above all, owls and doves. Here Pablo Picasso is working on small bird sculpture, Luciano Emmer film. Madoura pottery, Vallauris 14./15.10.1953.

A deeply focused Pablo Picasso cups his hands, shaping a small bird sculpture at the Madoura pottery workshop in Vallauris. The artist, dressed in a dark sweater and corduroy trousers, is being filmed for a documentary by director Luciano Emmer in October 1953. To his right, a crew member holds a small device to capture the intimate moment of creation. For Picasso, molding clay was an act of pure fantasy, a way to shape mythological figures and animals and, as he once said of a vase, to "wring its neck" in order to give it life.

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AtWork, Ceramics, Sculptures

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