Ninety masterpieces, nearly one
for each year of his life, have been chosen to illustrate the
genius of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso in a show opening
October 15 at Verona's AMO museum in the Forti Palace.
The exhibition, titled "Picasso: Figures (1906-1971)",
includes sculptures and paintings on loan from the Musee Picasso
in Paris.
It traces the artist's creative journey from Cubism to
Surrealism through to a revolutionary concept in forms that went
unmatched throughout the 20th century.
The retrospective was curated by Musee Picasso curator
Emilie Bouvard and organised by the Arthemisia Group in
collaboration with the Musee Picasso.
Bouvard chose the most significant works in the museum's
collection to offer the visitor a synthesis of the artist,
beginning with the 1907 painting 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon', to
1909's 'Seated Nude' and later the small 1931 canvas 'The Kiss'.
Later works from 1937 - 'The Weeping Woman' and 'Portrait
of Marie-Thérèse' - trace Picasso's metamorphosis in
representing the human form, while his art traversed pre-Cubism,
Cubism, Classicism and Surrealism, reaching a new concept of
figure and form in the post-WWII era that was simultaneously
constructive and destructive.
The exhibition is divided into six sections, ending with
the section titled "Painter and Model", which contains the most
extreme synthesis of his work, documenting his fraught and
tragic relationships with women.
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