PABLO PICASSO
10 Picassos from the Kunstmuseum Basel
‘‘Good artists copy, great artists steal.’’- Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso was born in 25 October 1881 and died 8th of April 1973 and is clearly one of the most relevant Spanish painters. He also was a sculptor, printmaker, ceramist and stage designer and poet. Picasso is one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century and he is well known as being a founder of the cubist movement. Alongside with Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp, they were the ones in charge of revolutionizing the plastic arts around the 20th Century.
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His work has usually been classified into the different periods: Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919).
‘‘Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art’’.
Picasso is back at the Prado through the famous Swiss museum, Kunstmuseum, with an essential anthology of the most decisive moments of the artist’s career. The pieces revive an artistic link with the Prado, which he actually directed through the years of the Civil war and creates a vivid dialogue with other artists of the Renaissance and Baroque. In this exhibition held at the Prado Museum, we can delight ourselves with the 10 Picassos which were certainly the most outstanding of his works of the Kunstmuseum. The 10 painting are also a great example of his evolution as an artist, beginning in the Iberian period until the cubism to the freest version of the melancholic works of Picasso by 1967, forming a great and unforgettable retrospective of the Spanish artist. The exhibition is calculated to be worth 482 million euros.
The 10 masterpieces are the following:
i. The Two Brothers
ii. Man, Woman and Child
iii. Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table
iv. The Aficionado
v. Woman with a Guitar
vi. Seated Harlequin or The Painter Jacinto Salvadó
vii. Woman with Hat Seated in an Armchair
viii. Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine, after Courbet
ix. Venus and Cupid
x. The Couple
Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZfmX55gZWg
Location:
Museo Nacional del Prado
Paseo del Prado s/n. 28014. Madrid.
Opening Times:
Monday through Saturday from 10 to 20h ,
Sundays and holidays from 10 to 19h .
Dates: 18 March- 14 September 2015
Tickets:
General entry: 14€
Transport:
Buses: 9, 10, 14, 19, 27, 34, 37 y 45.
Metro: Estaciones de Banco de España y Atocha.
Train: Estación de Atocha.
Covered by Beatriz de Tomás.
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