Etreinte

Embrace, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, 1901

Picasso's early sketches attract me like the rapture. I have faced the passion of young Picasso at Museu Barcelona in the spring of 2005. In 1901 Paris, Picasso was maybe in the middle of his initial transition to find and free the true self. Etreinte(Embrace), 1901 seems to reveal his youthful but passionate faith in the 'naive' truth; the 'mushniess' of love and being. The embrace is in part a pregnancy motif which appeals to me. Embrace finds its favourable companion with the 'Waltz in A minor. Op. posth' of Chopin. This friendly companionship may have its origin simply in my belief in the beauty of hermeneutical harmony of two hands in Chopin's waltz. This is the first post of this page; because it implies the primary idea of my thoughts.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
- Pablo Picasso

Angel Hye-young Kim