Review article

Picasso’s “View”. Watching, Sighting, and Visible in Picasso’s Cubism

Katarina Rukavina ; Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

Grounded in an analysis of Picasso’s works from two cubist phases, this work tends to show to which extent Picasso’s application of poliperspectivness in painting represents departure from standard norms of looking and from conventional models of representation. This refers to the philosophical character of his intention that results from focusing on view as such. Namely, the object of Picasso’s poliperspective representation is not a specified physical referent, but, on the contrary, the artist’s own view. The presence of movement of one’s own view in function of the representation of the object is what legitimizes an artistic experience as a form of cognition. Picasso’s cubism from the beginning of the twentieth century inaugurates reflection of looking, sighting and visible in (post)modern art and thus supports the thesis of history of view.

Keywords

visuality; poliperspectivness; representation of representation; history of view; Pablo Picasso

Hrčak ID:

111196

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/111196

Publication date:

24.9.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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