Museu Picasso

While in Barcelona, Eric and I visited three art museums:  Museu Picasso, CaixaForum, and Museu nacional d'Art de Catalunya.  I'm just going to cover Museu Picasso in this post.  The other two are featured in this post:  Placa d'Espanya.

The Museu Picasso is an art museum about Pablo Picasso.  Go figure.  I love the way they set  up the museum.  As you go through each room and exhibit you see the transformation of Picasso's art.  In his own words, "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

Unfortunately, you can't take pictures in the museum, so I don't have any to share.  Except this one that Eric took...the little rebel.

For every place we visit, Eric and I have been picking up a piece of artwork.  We have Tlingit art from Alaska, watercolors from Edinburgh, a canvas of the red tile roofs in Lisbon, and now a copy of Picasso's "Las Meninas," one of fifty or so "studies" he did on Deigo Velazquez's painting by the same name.  Here's his own words on his "exhaustive study of form, rhythm, color and movement" (guggenheim.org):

If someone wants to copy Las Meninas, entirely in good faith, for example, upon reaching a certain point and if that one was me, I would say...what if you put them a little more to the right or left?  I'll try to do it my way, forgetting about Velazquez.  The test would surely bring me to modify or change the light because of having changed the position of a character.  So, little by little, that would be a detestable Meninas for a traditional painter, but would be my Meninas.  (pablopicasso.org)

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Museu Picasso

 I love this so much.  Artists of all sorts do this in their own "studies."  I do it when I write a paper about a literary piece.  I pick it apart, analyze its "form, rhtyhm,...and movement," mush it back together in something that may be completely different from the original, but it becomes my own, "My Meninas."

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