![]() Now turn to the right, and look for a small painting of a woman’s head. He just wasn’t satisfied, churning through different styles and influences, restlessly seeking the new. When we get to Picasso’s more experimental cubist portraits where the figures are barely recognizable as human, remember that he was very proficient at making more realistic pictures like this one. We’ll talk more about those questions and new scholarship on Picasso as we go. Unlike the image of his friend, who is depicted in detail, Picasso makes the female figure little more than an accessory.Īssessing Picasso now, his tormented relationships with women raise a host of questions. Picasso later painted over the dog with this portrait of a French prostitute. Beneath the surface, they discovered that, originally, Vidal was seated next to a dog. The effect is a mood of loneliness and subdued emotion.Ĭonservators here at LACMA studied this painting using xrays. Around this time in his life, Picasso was fighting depression, and he painted almost exclusively with shades of blue and green. Picasso was a rebel, a radical, and very self-confident, but he was also desperately poor, and Sebastian, who had some family money, helped him stay afloat. He and Picasso had recently relocated from Barcelona to Paris. NARRATOR: Picasso’s friend and roommate, Sebastián Juñer Vidal, stares back at us. We are going to talk about Picasso by looking at his work in more or less chronological order, so let’s start there. But we’ll try to do that today.Īhead and to your right is a blue-toned painting of a couple seated at a café table. Picasso’s fame makes it difficult to come to the paintings without preconceived ideas. It is extraordinary to have this many Picasso portraits in one place. Picasso is the most famous artist of the 20 th century, known for his explosive dissembled figures. Nothing we can say about a painting can replace the experience of just looking at it, as an artist does. Before we look at some of the individual paintings here, take a moment to take in the whole of the space, and to appreciate the great leap in creativity here. Ready? You should be standing in the Picasso gallery. Pass through the first three rooms of German Expressionism. ![]() Are you there now? Take a left to enter the Modern Art galleries. Pause until you arrive on the third floor lobby near the large elevator. To find the Picasso gallery at the museum, go to the third floor of the BCAM building. NARRATOR: Welcome to our sonic essay about a single room of magnificent Picasso portraits at LACMA.
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