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Picasso
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Henri Hayden, et al.
The Guitarist 1919
Some of Picasso’s most notable experiments in material and form featured the guitar as their subject. Like Picasso, Hayden uses superimposed planes and fractured geometry to create a visual sensation of musical rhythms. He exhibited his paintings in the same gallery as Picasso (Galerie Paul Rosenberg) and is often referred to as the ‘Renoir of cubism’ because of the grace and sensuality of his figures. Hayden is just one of the many artists, both in France and across the world, who took up the new visual language of cubism developed by Picasso and Braque. This later use of more stylised, polychromatic arrangements was known as ‘synthetic cubism’ (as opposed to the earlier ‘analytical cubism’, which was more monochromatic and hard-edged).