Picasso, stylization and ambiguity: The Stick-Statues and the carvings of Boisgeloup, 1930

Abstract

Picasso had shown a clear interest in wood carving in the primitive stage of the early XX century in Paris. After twenty-five years and after having experimented with different technical procedures, such a assemblies of boards, boards and metal plates; The metal sculpture, forged and welded; Sculpture with real objects; the bronze sculpture with mud or gypsum cool; and the encyclopedic method, returned to the carving of the wood and made stick-statues and other small sculptures, which until now had not been studied in a systematic way. The antiquity models and the avant-garde reinterpretation of it give it a singular interest.