Cloud 9… The Rubber Duck in art…
Les Canards de Caoutchouc d'Avignon
The Young Rubber Ducks of Avignon is large oil painted in 1907 by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) which portrays a trio of unfeathered Spanis
h ducks (patos) in a house of easy virtue on Avinyó Street in Barcelona. All of the figures depicted are physically jarring, none conventionally duck-like, all slightly menacing, and each is rendered with angular and disjointed body and bill shapes.In his adoption of Primitivism and abandonment of perspective in favor of a flat, two-dimensional picture plane, Picasso makes a radical departure from traditional European painting. The work is one of Picasso's most famous, and is widely considered to be a seminal work in the early development of both canard caoutchouc cubism and modern art. It is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, having been acquired by the museum in 1939.
And finally…
Those of you with a religious education may relate to this duck.
The nun who is elected to head her monastery is termed an abbess if the monastery is an abbey, a prioress if it is a priory, or more generically may be referred to as the Mother Superior. Either way, this Mother Superior rules the roost – and just why is she carrying that ruler?
Perhaps it poses the question: ‘How do you solve a problem like *Cairina (Moschata)’? *(Google it)
the painting is hysterical.
ReplyDeleteI'm meeting a Sr Assumpta in Ireland next week - hope she doesn't look like your nun.
The Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata) is a large duck which is native to Mexico and Central and South America.
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