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.

With an intense, penetrating gaze, Pablo Picasso is captured mid-creation, shaping a small bird sculpture at the Madoura pottery in Vallauris. The portrait was made in October 1953 during filming for a Luciano Emmer documentary. Backlit in the rustic workshop, his face is a study in light and shadow. Delighted that he could make clay respond to any fantasy, Picasso shaped a vast menagerie of mythological figures, graceful women, bulls, fish, and birds like this one.

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Artworks:

"Colombe", 1953. Matamoros:178

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

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AtWork, Ceramics, PaintingUtensils, PicassoPortrait

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