Religious Art of Pablo Picasso

"The first critical examination of Picasso's use of religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works with secular subject matter. Though Picasso was an avowed aetheist, his work employs themes of spirituality -- and, often, traditional religious iconography. In five engagingly written, accessible chapters, the authors address Picasso's cryptic 1930 painting of the Crucifixion; the artist's early life in the catholic church, trained as a religious painter; elements of transcendence in Guernica; Picasso's fraught relationship with the church, including a commission to paint murals for the War and Peace Chapel in France in the 1950s; and the centrality of religious themes and imagery in bullfights, subject of countless Picasso drawings and paintings. The book will shed new light on a little-known or discussed aspect of one of the central figures of 20th-century art"--

List of contents

Foreword

Michael Morris, OP

Preface

Jane Dillenberger

1. The Crucifixion

2. The Early Years

3. Picasso and the Church

4. Guernica: Ultimate Concern

5. The Corrida and the Sketchbooks of the 195s

Notes

Selected Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Index

Summary

This is the first critical examination of Pablo Picasso's use of religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works with secular subject matter. Though Picasso was an avowed atheist, his work employs spiritual themes—and, often, traditional religious iconography. In five engagingly written, accessible chapters, Jane Daggett Dillenberger and John Handley address Picasso's cryptic 1930 painting of the Crucifixion; the artist's early life in the Catholic church; elements of transcendence in Guernica; Picasso's later, fraught relationship with the church, which commissioned him in the 1950s to paint murals for the Temple of Peace chapel in France; and the centrality of religious themes and imagery in bullfighting, the subject of countless Picasso drawings and paintings.

Product details

• Authors: Dillenberger, Jane Dillenberger, Jane D. Dillenberger, Jane Daggett Dillenberger, Jane Daggett Handley Dillenberger, Jane Handey Dillenberger, Dillenberger Jane Daggett, Dillenberger/Handley, John Handey, John Handley, Handley John
• Assisted by: Jane Daggett Dillenberger (Editor), John Handley (Editor), Michael Morris (Editor), Michael Morris (Foreword), Morris Michael (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2014
• EAN: 9780520276291
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27629-1
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Individual artists, art monographs, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial art