Picasso: Figures and Portraits

Description: The show encompasses more than 100 works covering all the painter's creative periods. The collection belongs to Bernard ... more

Picasso: Figures and Portraits ... Picasso, one of the grandsons. It comes directly from the painter's estate and has never been exhibited before.

Newest Review: ... was the typical wunderkind. “When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope!’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” We see a few traditional portraits in the first room and one which differs from the rest. It shows his dead friend Casagemas (1901) and ... more

... is painted only in shades of blue - initiating Picasso’s so-called blue period during which he mainly painted human misery: blind figures, beggars, alcoholics, and prostitutes. The other pictures in the room are cubist ones which I found rather ...more

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Picasso: Figures and Portraits: Picasso's Choice (1536 words)
by - written on 21/02/02 (Very useful, 356 readings)
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Picasso. Ever heard the name? “Of course,” I hear you crying in chorus, “what a silly question!” Good, then please name an artefact which for you is a typical Picasso. Ah, now you don’t answer in chorus, each of you has chosen a different one, and if we put them all side by side, you wouldn’t believe that they had all been made by the same artist, they differ in the material, the style, the subjects; Picasso wasn’t only extremely prolific, but also extremely versatile. In that he differed from his contemporaries Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) and Joan Mirò (1893 - 1983); once they had found their styles, they stuck to them. ... Read the complete review