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Article: Potted history: the Picasso Museum in Malaga enthrallingly analyses the way traditional ceramics influenced the artist.(Pablo Picasso)
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- January 1, 2006
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Pablo Picasso began his major engagement with ceramics in 1947. Working first in Georges and Suzanne Ramies' Madoura pottery, in Vallauris, he continued later at both La Californie, in Cannes, and at Mourgin right to the end of his life. Altogether Picasso made about 4,000 original ceramics, keeping most of them himself. On his death they passed to his family.
During his lifetime his ceramics were exhibited more often than were his sculptures. But, until recently, they have attracted little academic attention. The connotations of 'decorative arts' and 'crafts' are, in part, responsible, as are the generally better known (although less animated) editions that ...