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picasso - diurnes
Picasso’s most ambitious photographic project was, without doubt, the series of lithographs entitled Diurnes (1962), created in collaboration with the French photographer André Villiers.
Villiers and Picasso had known each other for some time. Captivated by Provence, where both of them resided, they decided to create a work together based on sticking cutouts of a typically Picassian fauna and mythology onto landscapes and natural elements photographed by Villiers. This involved, then, combining photograms and conventional photo prints. Photographer and painter shut themselves away in the darkroom Villiers had set up in Lou Blauduc, a superb rented country mansion between Mas Thibert and Salin-de-Giraud in the middle of the Camargue. The herds of horses and fighting bulls that were grazing freely in the countryside around probably inspired many of the compositions. “Diurnes, in short, has all the experimental force of the visual risk-taking of the Surrealists and at the same time the poetic charge of the Mediterranean sensibility, the exaltation of the founts of its aesthetic memory, the magic of its most visionary origins. It’s like the meeting of a shepherd and a mermaid on the trunk of a Buick considered as a readymade” Professor Rosalynd Kroll has wisely written.
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