Appropriations...

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Tom Sachs (1966, New York, USA) said: “If you want to learn to paint, start by painting your own Picasso” and that is precisely what he did. 

Last January, the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery in Paris exhibited a few paintings tributing the style of the Malaga artist, particularly from the period between 1937-1945, called “War Years.” 

Sachs reimagined Picasso's work but with his own language. Each painting was recreated at full scale, with the same titles and dates but a box was added around it to add the two signatures, the measurements and the date. These additions recontextualize the work and make it Sachs's own. The brush strokes, the erasing and the repainting are perfectly observed with the naked eye, which allows us to follow the construction of these paintings

 

First Steps, by Tom Sachs, (2023)

Techniques: Acrylic and Krink on canvas / Dimensions: 182.9 x 152.9 cm 
Based on First Steps by Pablo Picasso (1943)
Technique: oil on canvas / Dimensions: 130.2 x 97.1 cm 

 

Woman with an Artichoke, by Tom Sachs (2023) 
Based on Woman with an Artichoke, by Pablo Picasso (1941)

 

The Supplicant, by Tom Sachs (2023)

Based on The Supplicant, by Pablo Picasso (1937)

 

For this post we chose the works that Picasso dedicated to women, frequently included in his paintings as references of pain or affection. In First Steps we must confess that it is the first time that we notice the figure of the mother, as must happen to the majority of viewers (due to the pregnancy of the figure of the girl). The Woman with an Artichoke is the sarcastic result of the bridal bouquet. In the case of La Suplicante, the figure with its eyes towards the sky reminds us of those images that we have seen in other painful paintings about war by the Spanish artist. 

The artifacts created by Sachs are exercises in recognition, admiration and a tribute to Picasso.  

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