A new Ut pictura poesis: The three musicians. Towards the absolute artistic creation of Picasso
Keywords:
Cubism, Nostalgia, Past, Temporary art, Ut pictura poesis.Abstract
The equation between the different arts is a question that has been debated since ancient times. It was Horacio who best addressed this problem with his verse “Ut pictura poesis”, relating painting to poetry. In this sense, when studying Picasso's classical period, beyond noticing formal and iconographic references between the works of antiquity and those of the artist, the recovery of this classicist locution may be more interesting, to which will be added the role of music, to show one of the artist's ambitions, that of establishing a fusion between immediate or spatial arts, such as painting, with temporal arts such as music and poetry. He will do this through cubist conceptual reinvention, the best example of which is found in the version of The Three Musicians located at the MoMA. Likewise, this exercise, in addition to demonstrating the continuity of cubism during the "classical" stage of the artist, would imply the integration of the arts and the path towards absolute artistic creation. In this practice, reflection on the passage of time and nostalgia will have great relevance.
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