Hold Me Tight! Picasso and the Identity Crisis of Iconography as the Mother of Art Interpretation

Authors

  • Bärbel Küster Institut für Kunstgeschichte/Universität Stuttgart

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/298

Keywords:

Bildende Kunst, Familie, Psychoanalyse, Religion, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Picasso’s oil painting La Vie (Life) from 1903 is considered to be an image in which the young Picasso simultaneously reconciles the death of a close friend and the separation from his parents. Becht-Jördens and Wehmeier hone this interpretation with an iconographic reading of individual gestures, bringing it to a subconscious expression of the relationship between the artist son and his mother.

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Published

2004-11-09

Issue

No. 14 (2004): Väter Mütter

Section

Schwerpunkt

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Copyright (c) 2004 Bärbel Küster

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