Ubiquitous Picasso. I like a fair amount of his oeuvre, but not all by a long shot. He's too everywhere and all over the place but at the same time unique and un-reproducable. He's only him.
So there is a new exhibit at the Bremen Art Gallery that centers on his short obsession, rather late in his career, with a model, Sylvette. He did a series of drawings, paintings, sculptures and ceramics of her in a very short time. The Bremen Art Musuem has one of these iconic images of Sylvette and now has done an exhibit around that one painting.
First, we like to support the local arts. Second, we like art. Third, Mr. Detlef Stein, a local art historian, is just the best guide to anything art. Our local Indiana Jones. I will walk a mile to hear him talk about almost anything! Besides that, he looks a lot like a young Indiana Jones.
This is a sculpture, sort of, of Sylvette done on a piece of metal,. You can easily recognize her pony tail. The funniest one in the exhibit was done with simple cardboard. No one should have paid money for it, but it was perfect, the perfect reproduction of the picture and the sculpture.
There was even a ceramic bowl that Picasso made with her image.
We enjoyed the afternoon. A little cultural pause in the pedestrian life of Werner and Sharon.
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