Discovering Picasso
Activity on Picasso’s painting “ Family of Saltimbanques” (Paris, 1905)
Picasso reworked the “Family of Saltimbanques” several times, adding figures and altering the composition
The figures occupy a desolate landscape and although Picasso has knit them together in a carefully balanced composition, each figure is psychologically isolated from the others, and from the viewer. In his rose, or circus, period, Picasso moved away from the extreme pathos of his earlier blue period, but in the “Family of Saltimbanques,” the masterpiece of the circus period, a mood of introspection and sad contemplation prevails.
From late 1904 to early 1906, Picasso's work centered on a single theme: the saltimbanque, or itinerant circus performer.
The theme of the circus and circus performer has a long tradition in art and in literature, and it became especially prominent in French art in the late nineteenth century.
Do Women Count? When What Counts is Language…
Jewish tradition teaches that G_d created the world through his word. We, created in His image and likeness, design, structure, and modify the realities in which we find ourselves immersed by means of the social languages we use. In this context, the author invites us to submerge ourselves in some of the classic Jewish texts, with a special emphasis on their semantic structure for the purpose of showing the ways in which the relationship between our rituals and women’s’ roles in them are established. Discussed are opportunities in the norms, contextual impositions, and the responsibility of taking part and, consequently, acting.
By Rabbi Joshua Kullock.