Is actually coming out of the series of collages that Is actually representing a guitar not flat against the wall, but actually turned slightly in space. Smaller, a lot of historians suggested that Picasso Steven: Picasso does this kind of thing in a lot of drawings at Not the same scale? Sal: Absolutely yeah. Take a look at one of the things that makes it most clear The language of depiction as opposed to depiction itself. The sort of second level, which is let's focus on Photography had really released artists from the responsibility Making his coming out of the 19th Century, when Happening at this moment, his understanding of art Several of the guitar-like cues and it would still veryĬlearly be a guitar. That finger board can't actually work, otherwise Steven: How can he createĪ visual vocabulary that represents the thing while not in any way constructing that thing? He has to be really deliberate. Representing the essence of the thing without making the thing. That seems counterintuitive to make a representation of something that we already make, and weĬan make it very well and represent it perfectly. Nobody had made a sculpture of a guitar because we make guitars. Occasionally, there mightĭrapery that was sculpted, there might be a horse,īut sculpture was always about something that existed in nature, something that was not man-made. You were referring to is really what there was. That that more classical kind of sculpture that Have you seen in sculpture? Sal: More classical sculpture, which is the Venus de Milo, and then you have the more geometric types of sculptures.
Sculpture, what comes to mind? What kinds of subjects Steven: I think Picasso isĪpplauding your interpretation. Not a functional guitar, but it definitelyĬonveys what a guitar is. Has the idea of its guitarness: the strings don't cross, where you. Would pop out are popping in, and things that are It takes this idea of a guitar, and it's very recognizable as a guitar. I mean, a guitar is never a mundane thing. It's just a fascinating thing to look at. Guitar, made out of sheet metal that PicassoĬut and crimped and folded. (lively music) Sal: What are we looking at here? Steven: This is a
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