To see you naked is to recall the earth - Lorca
It's been said that Velazquez made black a color . Spanish black , distinguishable in hue from the aubergine black of Manet's Berthe Morisot, from the blue black of Vermeer or the orange black of Rembrandt .
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. -Lorca
Picasso was the notable exception, using black to organize his larger compositions .In Guernica the limited palette predominated by black/white helped the forms to cohere. He also used black as a highlighting devise in some of the larger compositions as in Nightfishing in Antibes, but rarely if ever does his black have the depth of Zuberan or Goya.
In the poetry of Antonio Machado the landscapes are strewn with rocks .The hills are red clay and gray crags . In "the fields of Seria, it seems even the rocks have dreams". Everywhere the eye rests on the margins of the city , nature in it's particular ontology is labored. Although the language of Spanish painting originated in Italian perspective and low country realism, the overriding influences of this geography , its scale and texture, can be felt in the eyes of Las Meninas, and Aesop's folds.
Wanderer, your footsteps are
The road and nothing more;
Wanderer there is no road,
The road in made of walking,
Walking makes the road,
And turning to look behind,
You see the path that you
Will never tread again.
Wanderer , path there is none
Only tracks on ocean foam.
Why did Picasso remain an exception in the use of " Spanish black", realizing its poetry and force only in his final portraits ?
David Sylvester has noted of Picasso that "He wouldn't let nature take him by surprise "; that he maintained a posture of dominance by compartmentalizing his work into stages as opposed to layering them, a dialectical process whereby he managed to negate whatever work preceded the stage that currently consumed him . It was this very lack of layeredness that for all Picasso's amassed greatness, that gives the individual pieces leading up to his final victory in the Spanish Maquieros, a lack of depth - a lack of territory striated with the mineral repository of the labors and the dead and that extraordinary Spanish black which is no where else to be found not in even in the shadows of Delacroix.
It's been said that Velazquez made black a color . Spanish black , distinguishable in hue from the aubergine black of Manet's Berthe Morisot, from the blue black of Vermeer or the orange black of Rembrandt .
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. -Lorca
Picasso was the notable exception, using black to organize his larger compositions .In Guernica the limited palette predominated by black/white helped the forms to cohere. He also used black as a highlighting devise in some of the larger compositions as in Nightfishing in Antibes, but rarely if ever does his black have the depth of Zuberan or Goya.
In the poetry of Antonio Machado the landscapes are strewn with rocks .The hills are red clay and gray crags . In "the fields of Seria, it seems even the rocks have dreams". Everywhere the eye rests on the margins of the city , nature in it's particular ontology is labored. Although the language of Spanish painting originated in Italian perspective and low country realism, the overriding influences of this geography , its scale and texture, can be felt in the eyes of Las Meninas, and Aesop's folds.
Wanderer, your footsteps are
The road and nothing more;
Wanderer there is no road,
The road in made of walking,
Walking makes the road,
And turning to look behind,
You see the path that you
Will never tread again.
Wanderer , path there is none
Only tracks on ocean foam.
Why did Picasso remain an exception in the use of " Spanish black", realizing its poetry and force only in his final portraits ?
David Sylvester has noted of Picasso that "He wouldn't let nature take him by surprise "; that he maintained a posture of dominance by compartmentalizing his work into stages as opposed to layering them, a dialectical process whereby he managed to negate whatever work preceded the stage that currently consumed him . It was this very lack of layeredness that for all Picasso's amassed greatness, that gives the individual pieces leading up to his final victory in the Spanish Maquieros, a lack of depth - a lack of territory striated with the mineral repository of the labors and the dead and that extraordinary Spanish black which is no where else to be found not in even in the shadows of Delacroix.