Abstract
In the "Kitchen", a monumental painting dating from November 1948, Picasso deploys a visual vocabulary invented by him in the 1920s and which, over the years. had taken on literary and political connotations, This monochrome canvas, abstract in appearance, bears witness to the fascination that certain works of Balzac, Apollinaire and Beverdy exercised on the painter. Expressing an exemplary complicity between the arts of painting and writing, the meanings and resonances in the work are nevertheless by no means restricted to the field of literature. Indeed, The "Kitchen" offers the example of a work stamped bt the painter's political commitment, which reacts to history and defends both freedom and art by denouncing Stalinist aesthetic directives.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2003 |