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- Cover Art -

Title: Sunset at horseshoe bend

Year: 2021

Artist: Christopher P. Ames, MD

Artist’s note:
There is something about the desert that makes palpable the passage of time and the seeming unimportance of man in this eternal cycle. We are at once silently baked in the desolation of eroding rock and then embraced by color punctuating the ends of days and nights. Every day the same unstoppable progression of heat to cold in the march of entropy and yet every day rewarded with such vibrant hues along the way for those who pause to see.

Dr. Christopher P. Ames, MD

Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery
Director of Spinal Deformity & Spine Tumor Surgery
Co-director, Spinal Surgery and UCSF Spine Center
Director, California Deformity Institute
Director, Spinal Biomechanics Laboratory

Dr. Ames is the director of spinal deformity and spine tumor surgery and co-director of the combined high risk spine service, the Neurospinal Disorders Program, and the UCSF Spine Center. He is board certified in neurosurgery. He was named to the 2015-2019 Top Doctors lists in San Francisco Magazine, and among America’s Top Doctors for both neurosurgery and cancer from 2010 to 2019. His tumor practice focuses on en bloc tumor resection for chordoma, chondrosarcoma, giant cell tumor, soft tissue sarcoma, sacral tumors, and other primary and metastatic tumors. While at UCSF, Dr. Ames developed and published the transpedicular approach to previously unresectable cervical and cervical thoracic tumors. He serves as Spine Section Lead editor for Operative Neurosurgery.

1. Selection of Dr. Seung-Jae Hyun

https://www.e-neurospine.org/upload/pdf/ns-2142818-409.pdf

Title: The Old Guitarist

Year: 1903

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso made The Old Guitarist while working in Barcelona. In the paintings of his Blue Period (1901-04), the artist restricted himself to a cold, monochromatic blue palette, flattened forms, and emotional, psychological themes of human misery and alienation related to the work of such artists as Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin. The elongated, angular figure of the blind musician also relates to Picasso’s interest in Spanish art and, in particular, the great 16th-century artist El Greco. The image reflects the twenty-two-year-old Picasso’s personal struggle and sympathy for the plight of the downtrodden; he knew what it was like to be poor, having been nearly penniless during all of 1902.

More information: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/28067/the-old-guitarist

© 2021 - Succession Pablo Picasso - SACK (Korea)

2. Selection of Dr. Kenneth Cheung

https://www.e-neurospine.org/upload/pdf/ns-2142836-418.pdf

Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Year: 1907

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon marks a radical break from traditional composition and perspective in painting. It depicts five naked women composed of flat, splintered planes whose faces were inspired by Iberian sculpture and African masks. The compressed space they inhabit appears to project forward in jagged shards, while a slice of melon in the still life at the bottom of the composition teeters on an upturned tabletop. Picasso unveiled the monumental painting in his Paris studio after months of revision. The Avignon of the work’s title is a reference to a street in Barcelona famed for its brothels.

More information: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766

© 2021 - Succession Pablo Picasso - SACK (Korea)

3. Selection of Dr. Junseok Bae

https://www.e-neurospine.org/upload/pdf/ns-2142816-408.pdf

Title: Mediterranean landscape

Year: 1953

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Landscape painting is rare in Spanish art. This scarcity can be tied to Spanish history. The Spanish Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth century was staunchly against both classicism and humanism. Strictly interpreted Catholic doctrine viewed the subject of human nature and nature in general as corrupt and indulgent. To contemplate the beauty of nature was to indulge in a hedonistic, pagan, and heretical act.

More information: https://www.pablopicasso.org/mediterranean-landscape.jsp

© 2021 - Succession Pablo Picasso - SACK (Korea)

4. Selection of Dr. Morio Matsumoto

https://www.e-neurospine.org/upload/pdf/ns-2142658-329.pdf

Title: Bottle, Glass, Fork

Year: 1911

Artist: Pablo Picasso

By 1911, Picasso's Cubist paintings began to approach total abstraction. This still life depicts a corked bottle, a wine glass, a folded newspaper, a knife, and a fork on a table. Always wanting to remain connected to the real world, Picasso began inserting fragmentary words and numbers with personal and political meanings. The fe 20 may refer to Café 20, a favorite meeting place for artists. EAN above [P]ARIS may allude to the anarchist newspaper L'Intransigeant.

More information: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1972.8

© 2021 - Succession Pablo Picasso - SACK (Korea)

5. Selection of Dr. Justin S. Smith

https://www.e-neurospine.org/upload/pdf/ns-2142648-324.pdf

Title: Naked woman with dripping hair

Year: 1902

Artist: Pablo Picasso

© 2021 - Succession Pablo Picasso - SACK (Korea)

6. Selection of Dr. Dean Chou

https://www.e-neurospine.org/upload/pdf/ns-2142932-466.pdf

Title: Guitar, glass and bottle of Vieux Marc

Year: 1912

Artist: Pablo Picasso

© 2021 - Succession Pablo Picasso - SACK (Korea)

7. Selection of Dr. Kyung-Hyun Kim

https://www.e-neurospine.org/upload/pdf/ns-2142878-439.pdf

Title: Blue nude

Year: 1902

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Blue Nude is one of Pablo Picasso's master piece in his early years. It was painted in 1902 and after one of his close friend tragically died, he mourned over it for a long time and was in a depressive mode. It is one of Picasso's paintings during his blue period and has without a doubt proved Picasso's talent on highlighting the deepest emotions while using only one color to effectively express it.

More information: https://www.pablopicasso.org/blue-nude.jsp

© 2021 - Succession Pablo Picasso - SACK (Korea)