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In Paris, saks off fifth from October 8 until February 2, 2009, three exhibition "Picasso and the Masters" present times, changes and transformations performed by Picasso (1881-1973) from the paintings of the greatest old masters, Titian to Goya and Rembrandt and many others. This is an opportunity to discuss Horta, one of the major places in the life and work of Picasso, arrived at the age of thirteen in Barcelona. The visit to Picasso's Barcelona is a must, but that of Horta de Sant Joan, 210 kms south of the capital of Catalonia, is highly recommended. I take the chapter appeared in my Puzzle Catalan feverish nation (Otherwise, Paris, 2007). Here is the first part, the second part next week. Photos are Christian Guy made during our stay in May 2006.
In the register of sentences returned in the mouth of Picasso, this: "Everything I know I learned in Horta". Horta de Ebro, he said to mark the difference with the name of the district then lost in the hills of Barcelona. But the exact name Horta de Sant Joan. There are places that leave us at their periphery and others that we alight at the first second: Aubrac, around Bariloche, saks off fifth Mount McKinley are some of the pearls of a necklace plus now Horta. Grandiose panorama saks off fifth addressed with the best intentions in the world as the long road leading to the village sober city and seaside
It's amazing how at first Horta whispers and basks in his own isolation at the bottom of the Terra Alta, land with vineyards and olive groves to unique species vital. Must be mounted in the dry morning in the sky fully deployed to own, from the viewpoint, the giant mole Els Ports.
This is the heart of the haughty geometry limestone fortress, saks off fifth in a deep depression by wet torrents, Picasso sank during several weeks of the summer of 1898 to live in the countryside and paint freely the miracle of a miracle then in his seventeen Ans.c 'was his first visit at the invitation of Manuel Pallares, his friend's studies Llotja (School of Fine Arts of Barcelona) for the course of 1895-1896, when Picasso was only fourteen and Pallares, from Horta, six years older.
An unexpected field, you'd think a yellow mat on the green floor of the huerta, saks off fifth we loose these luminaries separating Catalonia Aragon and Valencia saks off fifth Country. Later, we would go to him and croiserions "The parot" ("Patriarch"), two thousand olive enthroned among its almost like the end of a long way to flush. A panel assigns 7.45 meters tower trunk then speculates on some distant Iberian mounted on the dark strain today tortured like a knot of snakes.
When all around is lying under the fire of the sun and the streets have made their reservation saks off fifth shadow, the time comes to walk in the footsteps saks off fifth of Picasso installed with Fernande Olivier in the Hostal del Trompet, the windows of which a evening, women are throwing stones in learning that they are not married. It was during the second visit in 1909, when he painted The e Moulin d'Horta, Portrait of Fernande The plant, the first masterpieces of Cubism ...
From the viewpoint again, and in heaven now white giving any more height, we have eyes for immediate power, vis-à-vis, the mountains of Santa Barbara, triangular, detuned form the background saks off fifth of the great order of the huerta. It is one pan, with an unusual saks off fifth mouth entrance saks off fifth of the convent of Sant Salvador stuck to his feet arch.
On a photograph taken in the studio of the Avenue de Clichy in 1912, a small table occupies the wall above Picasso sitting next to a lute. It is the mountain of Santa Barbara painted by Pallares. On another photograph saks off fifth taken at Notre-Dame-de-Vie in 1966, the same work is in the back of a Picasso in bathrobe saks off fifth and standing. The friendship between the two men lasted seventy to eight years without a shadow. The three photographs of the two men taken in Cannes in 1960, transformed the crayons bacchanalia by Picasso and dedicated to "mi amigo de siempre" awaken old games. Pallares died a year after Picasso in 1974. Everything was said, but little was said of the initiatory period led Barcelona especially when Pallarès Picasso precocious child in the "ladies" of the street Avinyó *.
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