Constant Reinvention
Pablo Picasso
"When I was a child, I could draw like Raphael, it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like a child."
Perspective is a ghastly mistake
Georges Braque
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
“Curves are so emotional“
Piet Mondrian
“To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual ”
“Did I ever meet Picasso?
I sold his drawings for 5 pounds!”
Started by Anton Zwemmer, Zwemmer’s bookshop on Charing Cross Road in London was a meeting place for artists, collectors, and academics. Anton Zwemmer was a friend and patron of Picasso, and his gallery showed his work. Zwemmer’s held Britain’s first abstract art exhibition, its first Dali exhibition and major exhibitions of Picasso, Miro and de Chirico.
As a book publisher Zwemmer issued the first book on Henry Moore and the first English language book on Picasso, More
