A bit of the Paris of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) you can see these days in the neighborhood of San Telmo. In the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires exhibits “Pablo Picasso. Beyond the likeness”, a sample made up of drawings by the Spanish artist, where they intersect sketches of key works, pieces that demonstrate his skill as a draftsman and the early explorations of the movement with which it is most associated, cubism.
On the second floor of the building where it once worked the tobacco-Nobleza Piccardo may be 74 drawings made with charcoal, pencil, pastels and even markers that Picasso created throughout his life. The works come from the prestigious Picasso Museum of Paris, and was curated by the director of the Modern, Victoria Noorthoorn in association with Emilia Philippot of the French museum.
The script curatorial was done from a chronological perspective, which allows to follow the evolution of Picasso, from the early work at age 16 up to their creations months before his death in 1973. Those that know something of the prolific career– both by the volume of its production as by the artistic movements that developed and went through – you will find out as they immerse themselves in the shows the roots of many of his later works.
In the first drawings dating back to the last years of the NINETEENTH century distinguish the same traits that had already been immortalized by Henri of Toulouse-Lautrec. They are works where the artist draws in pencil or charcoal the bajofondo paris, with its cafes, its dancers and its characters. In the grey lines that cross the paper, troubled there are ways that the viewer must decipher. Then will come the work which it takes up the slack left by the post-impressionist Paul Gauguin, and Paul Cézanne.
"In Pablo Picasso. Beyond the likeness" you should pay attention to the details. Mixed in between the apparent scribbles appear the lines of research of works icon of the artist. In “Bust of a woman” (1907) are the african masks Picasso the collected – which will then appear in his work "les demoiselles d’avignon" (1907), which today hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
At the same time as "The young ladies…" Picasso returned to the lines that had traced Cézanne to deepen them, and develop cubism, the movement that breaks down the figures to show them from all their points of track in a single plane. You see his interest in shapes in the sketches of the sculptures, such as “Study for a sculpture” (1907).
Ballet, harlequins and women
In the mid of the decade of the '10 Picasso surrounded himself with artists, writers, musicians and singers that formed the parisian bohemia. Begins to collaborate with some of his comrades of coffee with drawings for covers of sheet music, set designs and costume designs. Picks up in this time some characters of the Comedy of the Italian art and the circus, which had already appeared in his "stage pink", as the harlequins and Pierrots.
Among the works that hung in the San Telmo are the sketches of the costumes and makeup devised for the Russian ballet "Parade" between 1916 and 1917. In the world of dance, she met one of her many companions, the ballerina Olga Kokhlova, who immortalize in "Olga sewing", a work that forms part of a set of portraits as the artist Auguste Renoir selected by Noorthoorn to hang in Buenos Aires.
For the decade of the '30 by Picasso already adopted Paris as his second home, while his native Spain, it bleeds in its own civil war. The artist reinvents his techniques and themes. She flirts with surrealism, explores the female figure, with their bathers and tends parallels between the european fascisms and the bullfighting. As you traverse the designs of this era will find the forms which are then drawn in "Guernica".
Picasso draws up to the last moment of his life. Returns to the classics with studies on the work of Eugene Delacroix (1834-1849), portrays to their children and new partners and continues to paint, aware that it is already a living myth.
"Pablo Picasso. Beyond the likeness" can be seen until the 28 of February at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, Av San Juan 350.
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