Looking back at Picasso's life and legacy • FRANCE 24 English

Few artists have left such an impact on their era. Pablo Picasso dominated the 20th century, bequeathing an iconic legacy to the history of painting, printing and sculpture. Fifty years after the Spanish artist's death, his influence still looms large. To mark that anniversary, FRANCE 24's Olivia Salazar-Winspear retraces his steps in Barcelona to discover how the giant of modern art got his start in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Catalonia. We also see how Picasso's early academic work gave way to formal experimentation at the Picasso Museum Barcelona, the largest collection of his work in the world.
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Beautiful paintings and sites. Through these explanations and new vision we are able to comprehend picasso’s works a lot more. His inspirations, from Diego Velazquez, Lautrec, are latent in Barcelona. Invaluable gift from the artist: the group of paintings like the Meninas. Throughout his art we perceived what he thought of events such as the civil war and how he expressed his grief in his monumental work: Guernica.
The curator at the Picasso’s Museum in Paris, had certainly carte blanche, and he did a fabulous work, those colorful stripes highlighted the beauty of those cubist paintings.
Thank you so much. How to forget the Four Cats, Picasso’s first exhibition and the early paintings at the Museum in Barcelona: The First Communion and Science and Charity, 1897.

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Thank you so much for posting. Reminding me of this marvellous Museo..I must return!

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He showed us his perspective and its beautiful

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I like some of Picasso’s paintings but I have always felt his ceramics and sculpture were more distinctive, he certainly was not an innovative thinker, he was very much the plagiarist and reinterpreted styles , a sort of cut and paste rather than a progressive developer of an original style . More like Andy Warhol than Matisse .