“Picasso produced the present portrait in the bustling Cardona studio during these heady months of youthful discovery in the earlier part of 1899, before the artist decamped for his friend Ramon Pichot’s more spacious quarters. The rakish-looking subject, Dionís Renart, was a sculptor three years Picasso’s senior, who had studied at La Llotja as well. Picasso painted him in a stiff-collared shirt and a floppy bow tie, endowing the striving young artist with a cosmopolitan allure. The sitter is lit theatrically from the left, creating strong shadows that accentuate his chiseled cheekbones, heavy brow, and deep-set eyes. The painting melds the bravura manner of a fashionable portraitist with the moody symbolist effects then in vogue among the Catalan avant-garde.”
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Love this portrait. Especially against that incredible shade of blue.
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That color blue grabs me every time. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, John. 🙂
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His self-portrait looks very somber. Not what I was expecting from Picasso. I had in my mind the later works when I read the title. But I do like it a lot.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Sheila. 🙂🌺
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Enjoyed the video clip. I knew nothing about this period in Picasso’s life. Thanks for sharing.
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My pleasure, always, Rosaliene. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. 🙂🌺
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There’s something sinister about the eyes.
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Yea, something definitely not right with the eyes…Maybe that is why he didn’t paint many portraits. lol
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