24th July 2011 Shooting Picasso

No doubt David Douglas Duncan's extensive experience as war photojournalist had later turned him into biographic photographer of Pablo Picasso, from 1956 till the death of the renowned artist. After all, in both cases what counted most was the of swiftness to capture the decisive and fleeting moment, unique and never to be repeated.

Both were hedonistic pleasure seekers of good life. They met in Costa Azul, sharing good times and travelling together, thus made possible the prodigious photographs, (compiled in 7 books), with astuteness the vitality and gaiety, and a touch of exhibitionist character of his model; always surrounded by friends, families or his own art pieces. In the eyes of Duncan, Picasso was authentic force of nature, a phenomenon more torrential than any war.

 

The Picasso Museum in Malaga has selected 120 of these casual snapshots (each with explanatory text); together with 50 of Picasso's paintings, creating an imaginative amalgam of art and life. Definitely one of the most stimulating exhibition this summer, titled:

'Picasso recreates - Through the camera of Douglas Duncan'

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24th July 2011 Widsom And Observations

• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
• With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich. ~ Chinese proverb
• A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
• In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
• Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
• The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
• We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
• It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
• A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
• The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
• The heart is half a prophet. ~ Yiddish Proverb
• Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
• When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

 

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