Picasso Bird Ceramics

Picasso known for his prolific output designed 633 different ceramic works ranging from carved editioned plates to unique bird shaped pitchers.

Picasso bird ceramics.

All of picasso s ceramics were produced at the madoura pottery run by the ramie family in vallauris in the south of france. Thus scholars largely divide his ceramic work into two categories original ceramic prints and the editions according to originals. Since picasso created his ceramics while on holiday his creations often feature a sense of joy and wit. His favourite owls with human faces an owlet and a goat were the artist s pets at that time prevail among the characters.

Whilst on holiday in golfe juan with françoise gilot in 1946 picasso visited the annual pottery exhibition. Pablo picasso was undoubtedly an extraordinary 20th century painter but i also feel that in the field of abstract impressionism his ceramics were also remarkable. At the time picasso spent his summers on the cote d azur in the south of france. Madoura picasso ceramics are highly collectible in their own right.

Pablo picasso revolutionized the art world and to many is the artist of the 20th century. One of the things that attracted picasso to ceramics was the medium s ability to create multiple editions of his designs much like an etching or a lithograph. Human images most often appear as a jar or a vase woman 1955. He is famous for his role in pioneering cubism with georges braque and for his melancholy blue period pieces.

At the end of the 1940s pablo picasso spanish 1881 1973 started creating ceramic works. Picasso s three dimensional ceramics mainly refers to the animalistic genre.