LETTERS FROM VIENNA
I love to take a dive into a museum on my lunch break. In the meantime, I have the following three addresses to choose from among my annual admissions: The Museum of Art History Vienna, the Natural History Museum Vienna und the Albertina. I would like to talk about the latter in a bit more detail today, as I arrived back home absolutely inspired and full of energy during my last visits.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
– PABLO PICASSO

Pablo Picasso - Head of the medical student (study for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon)
„Everything you can imagine is real.“– PABLO PICASSO
With 800 drawings and paintings, Picasso prepares the brothel scene of the Demoiselles d'Avignon, which is originally also to be attended by a medical student with a skull in his hand as a memento mori. Picasso tries out stylistic variations, each half of the face has its own identity. The nose outlined with a few strokes, the small mouth and the widened almond-shaped eyes, the absent gaze and the protruding oversized ear are inspired by a prehistoric Iberian head from the Louvre that Picasso saw there in 1906. (…)
– DESCRIPTION IN THE ALBERTINA
800 drawings as preparation
Especially the part of the picture description „With 800 drawings and paintings Picasso prepares himself“ inspired me particularly. When does anyone in today’s design scene bother to prepare for a final result with 800 hand sketches or paintings?
Often... we are fools

Paul Klee – Figurine „Der Narr“ 1927
„Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.“
– PABLO PICASSO
Source of the muse? Absolutely.

Elisabeth Isabella
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