4 From last October until 30 January 2011, you can visit the temporary exhibition the toys vanguards in Museo Picasso Malaga .
Among the 500 exhibits is the rag doll that Paul Klee gave his daughter, made with a light socket, a metal horse Picasso built from the legs of a table his grandson Bernard television or car hand-painted wood gave his son Paulo [on this car, tells his grandson that Picasso could not drive and knew nothing of the operation of cars. He took a wooden car and began to paint very well, but in the end painted the floor of the car as a kitchen, with black and white diamonds. My father never wanted to play with a car that had the soil cuisine, the puppets Schlemmer created for their children, the buffoons of Paul Klee ...
Among the 500 exhibits is the rag doll that Paul Klee gave his daughter, made with a light socket, a metal horse Picasso built from the legs of a table his grandson Bernard television or car hand-painted wood gave his son Paulo [on this car, tells his grandson that Picasso could not drive and knew nothing of the operation of cars. He took a wooden car and began to paint very well, but in the end painted the floor of the car as a kitchen, with black and white diamonds. My father never wanted to play with a car that had the soil cuisine, the puppets Schlemmer created for their children, the buffoons of Paul Klee ...
This is part of the information can be found on the website of the Museum on the exhibition:
Joaquín Torres García ( 1874-1949). Dog , 1924-1925. Painted wood, 19.5 x 12.5 x 2.2 cm. Private Collection, New York © Joaquín Torres-Gracia, VEGAP, Málaga, 2009.
"Puppetry, miniature scenes, dolls, games, furniture, books ... toys avant-garde meets a unique set of objects that show some of its more prominent examples as well as works by other artists, without further claim that the fun, created for the enjoyment of family and friends. The latter is a car, "Wood Toy painted by Pablo Picasso, which made for his son Paulo.
addition Picasso, Giacomo Balla , Alexander Calder , Fortunato Depero , Marcel Duchamp , Alexandra Exter , Paul Klee, El Lissitzky , Joan Miró , Alexander Rodchenko, Edward Steichen , Oskar Schlemmer , Ladislav Sutnar , Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Joaquín Torres-García are some of the most influential artists of the twentieth century represented in this exhibition. With the game as a theme, involving such diverse disciplines as visual arts, theater, photography, design, film and literature. Concerning this last category, writers such as Marcel Ayme , Ramón Gómez de la Serna , Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Neville , Vladimir Mayakovsky and Jacques Prévert signed texts of some of the stories and stories for children at risk.
Wooden Toy painted by Pablo Picasso, by the painter in the 20 for his son Paulo and, are known, the child rejected because would not ever play with a car that had the floor like a kitchen.
Toys avant-garde shows different groups of works. On the one hand, a set of toys and buildings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth raised with clear didactic intent. Similarly, a selection of toys and books work of artists attached to different movements like Constructivism and Futurism, as well as schools such as Bauhaus . These creators of devised to be produced in series and subsequently marketed as the Steichen photo books or educational toys Alma Siedhoff-Buscher. Others, conceived as unique objects, sometimes as gifts for their immediate environment. This is the case of the television table Picasso becomes a horse for his grandson Bernard, the puppets Klee and Schlemmer do for their children or circus orchestrated by Calder, documented in one of five films showing in the exhibition .
toys vanguards complete with the "Young stars . Blaise Cendrars and the children's book in the USSR. 1926-1929," which reconstructs the exposure that the writer Blaise Cendrars in Paris in 1929, which includes books, leaflets and posters aimed at children and produced by Russian avant-garde artists during the early years of the Soviet revolution. Following the closure of the exhibition, it will travel to Valencia Museum of Illustration and Modernity ( MuVIM ), where they appear in the spring of 2011. "
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