You’re going to be listening to quite a bit about Picasso this yr – it’s been 50 years since his demise, which explains the official occasion referred to as Celebration Picasso 1973-2023.
Exhibitions are being organised worldwide, with Paris internet hosting Picasso Celebration, the Assortment in a New Gentle beginning seventh March on the Picasso Museum (with staging from Paul Smith) and Picasso – Infinite Drawing on the Pompidou Centre in October, however kicking the season off in Paris is Picasso and the Prehistoric on the Musée de l’Homme, exhibiting the affect of prehistoric objects in Picasso’s work
Picasso was fascinated by prehistoric works and saved many in his workshop as inspiration. The exhibition places a few of them on present, juxtaposing them with the painter’s work (work, drawings, sculptures…).
The exhibition is introduced in 5 themed sections. First, Corps modelés exhibits how the rounded female curves within the first prehistoric works, like the Venus of Lespugue, resonated with Picasso, then in Bestiaire et grand décors you’ll see Picasso’s depictions of teams of animals in contrast with cave drawings on an analogous theme.
Empreintes et abstractions seems to be at some much less figurative photographs, exhibiting the hyperlinks between (for instance) the detrimental imprints within the cave of Altamira and Picasso’s handprint in sugar.
Subsequent, Objets trouvés brings collectively for the primary time stones that Picasso engraved with faces, bringing to thoughts the supplies utilized by the primary ever artists.
Then for the ultimate part of the exhibition, referred to as Déesses primitives, you’ll be capable to see a few of Picasso’s sculptures, just like the upright gasoline burner above, that he thought of ‘modern-day goddesses’, introduced with copies of prehistoric Venus figures.
In all, round forty works are on present within the exhibition, in a presentation spanning 240m².
The exhibition Picasso et la Préhistoire (Picasso and the Prehistoric) is on the Musée de l’Homme (right here) from eighth February – twelfth June 2023
Open every single day besides Tuesdays from 11am-7pm
Admission: 13€ / 10€
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