A new feature page is added to this blog which will examine one painting or piece of art work of Pablo Picasso. The idea came to me recently because of the temporary closure of the Musée Picasso in Paris, which allowed these works to travel to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto until the 26th of August, 2012. ( They haven’t had a collective outing since the Retrospective at the MoMA in New York in 1980, at which time they were free to travel awaiting the renovations to their final home in the Marais.) These pieces are very special because Picasso held on to them his whole life for his own personal reasons, Picasso’s Picassos, and the collection has remained largely intact as they substituted for the inheritance taxes owed to the French government at his death in 1973.
The current exhibition has stirred up the pot of varied opinions about this man’s work. So many people have told me that they actually hate him! What? The artist? The man? … I even attended a lecture series recently by a respected academic art historian whose mandate seemed to have been his dethroning by virtue of his continual co-opting original ideas of his contemporaries! As an art student, I have always admired the work of Picasso. I have to speak out, even if no one listens! But, please come along with me!
#1 See a Picasso painting done at age 13.
#2 See Picasso’s brilliant simplification!
#3 See Picasso draw!
she paints; she is a painter 