Le moulin de la galette (van gogh)
Le Moulin de la Galette (Picasso)
painting by Pablo Picasso
Le Moulin de la Galette is an oil painting on canvas (&#;cm ×&#;&#;cm (&#;in ×&#;&#;in)) created in by Pablo Picasso, and currently owned by the Guggenheim Museum in New York.[1]
History and description
In September , year-old Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris with his friend Carlos Casagemas for the Universal Exhibition. The subject of the work is a night scene in the famous Parisian nightclub Moulin de la Galette, crowded with people dancing, in the middle band, or resting at tables, in the lower left corner. Following Impressionist dictates, Picasso paints people not with meticulous precision, but as if they were large blobs of color in motion, under a pinwheel of artificial lights that appear to be floating. [2] The tendency to deform images is evident in the arbitrary, bright and contrasting color as never before in the young Catalan artist's works. The brushwork is frayed and sinuous, wit Moulin de la galette montmartre!