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Pablo Picasso "initially found that working with clay was a relaxing summer respite from the more strenuous demands of painting" (Artnet news, 2013). The whimsical styling of his ceramics gives evidence to this cathartic practice (see Pablo Picasso Ceramic Plate A.R. 496).
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"Whenever Picasso decides to tackle new materials, in order to satisfy his insatiable desire to discover the particular features of each medium, he feels that he is liberated from any kind of gravity that might impede his flight. He seems to develop a new acuteness in his pursuit of hazardous encounters with noxious interferences that tease him in the shadows. And this immediately fills him with an incredible ingenuity of a practical order."
— Georges Ramié, From “Picasso’s Ceramics,” Chartwell Books, 1974
