Learn more about the exhibition Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art on view at the Met April 27, 2010 – August 1, 2010: http://tinyurl.com/MetPicasso
This landmark exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 – 1973) in the Museum’s collection. It features three hundred works, including the Museum’s complete holdings of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and ceramics by Picasso—never before seen in their entirety—as well as a selection of the artist’s prints. The Museum’s collection reflects the full breadth of the artist’s multi-sided genius as it asserted itself over the course of his long and influential career.
Notable for its remarkable constellation of early figure paintings, which include the commanding At the Lapin Agile (1905) and the iconic portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906), the Museum’s collection also stands apart for its exceptional cache of drawings, which remain relatively little known, despite their importance and number. The key subjects that variously sustained Picasso’s interest—the pensive harlequins of his Blue and Rose periods, the faceted figures and tabletop still lifes of his cubist years, the monumental heads and classicizing bathers of the 1920s, the raging bulls and dreaming nudes of the 1930s, and the rakish cavaliers and musketeers of his final years—are amply represented by works ranging in date from a dashing self-portrait of 1900 (Self-Portrait “Yo”) to the fanciful Standing Nude and Seated Musketeer painted nearly seventy years later.
The exhibition and the catalogue are made possible by the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation.
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bigbono12 ‘This …
bigbono12 ‘This show and the commentary of Gary Tinterow unfortunately tells us nothing important about these works of Picasso. ‘Please tell us all about it.
I do find your comments particularly irresponsible: school children come to see the exhibition. Some have to write papers for school. Your comments are useless for them. Illuminate them and tell them about the ‘important’ elements
that the curators did not include. I dare you: it is your duty.
bigbono12:
I …
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I enjoyed finding the resonances within the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
Also: I did not know about the ‘reductive’ technique Picasso ‘invented’ in order to serve his artistic needs!
@bigbono12 You are …
@bigbono12 You are the one who does not understand!
‘nothing important’
‘particularly superficial’
‘particularly trivial’
‘peripheral’
You did not contribute much to the discussion. I disagree with you: I was particularly moved by the two almost identical works, done probably the same day, one with the marks in pencil, pointing to the volumetric quality that Picasso wanted to achieve and does achieve, in the second. Whitout the comments of the curators, I would have missed this pleasure!
This show and the …
This show and the commentary of Gary Tinterow unfortunately tells us nothing important about these works of Picasso. The commentary of this video is particularly superficial and trival dealing as it does with information which is peripheral to the meaning of the works themselves. These art historians really don’t understand painting at all. What a waste.
Nice.
Nice.