Picasso is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and has a huge influence on the art world in his period and later generations. He has pursued the creative practice of art throughout his life. The works exhibited focus on different stages of Picasso's lifetime, from youth to his old age.
Pablo Picasso, was born in Málaga, Spain in 1881, his father was an art teacher and he begins to paint when he was a child. After living for a few years in Barcelona, when he was young, he went to live to Paris, France; the most important city of the occidental arts in the first years of XX century and where the vanguard where developed.
The exhibition, “Meet Pablo Ruiz Picasso” is an approach, a global vision to the works and life of this artist. In this exhibition are represented Picassos works in all his time periods. The first work is dated in 1904, is “The frugal meal” one of the last works of the artist's blue period, and the last, one of his ceramics, in 1962, few years before his death. This is fast 60 years of work, where we go through the different styles: the blue period, pink period, cubism, naturalism or classicism… in what was a constant process of change and rupture.
On the other hand, the exhibition brings the visitor closer to the ingenious universe created by the artist through his paintings, etchings, ceramics and photographs. Picasso was equally skilful at all of these techniques; he worked on new approaches to Art that led to innovative creative processes and pioneer forms of expression.
展览以时间逻辑和不同主题，通过202件作品勾勒出毕加索的一生。
The exhibition outlines Picasso's life with 202 artworks in timely and thematic order.
巴勃罗·毕加索，《毕加索的画室系列-女人》，1957
Pablo Picasso, Femmes, 1957, lithography, 32.2x43.5cm
Picasso’s oil paintings express his creativity most intensively.
The human figure was Pablo Picasso’s main theme and the portrait holds a central position in his work throughout his artistic career. In this exhibition we can find three very important portraits: Tête d'homme I (Mougins, 4 December 1964); Self-portrait, dated in 1967; and a female portrait, Tête de femme (3 June 1943). Throughout his life, much of Picasso’s artistic output was closely linked to his personal life, in which women played a decisive role. For that reason, the presence of females is so frequently found in his work, whether as portraits, nudes or idealisations. They are real, identifiable women, they become the artist’s muses or models while they live a sentimental relationship with him.
Together with portraits, still-life were the other Picasso’s main themes throughout his career. A good example in this exhibition is Compotier, boutielle et paquet de cigarettes, 1922; Picasso presents this theme to us in a way that recalls his cubist works of the previous decade.
These works have been exhibited in important European exhibitions and museums.
巴勃罗·毕加索，《自画像》，1967
Pablo Picasso, Self-portrait, 1967, Gouache and India Ink, 75x56.5cm
Picasso has a deep affection for Barcelona. He not only completed his studies there, but also started his modernist painting style from there. On Picasso’s 85th birthday, the Picasso Museum in Barcelona carefully selected a group of canvases of his own collection painted by Picasso between 1901 and 1907, produced a limited number of colored prints, and invited Picasso to autograph them. These series of works are called “Barcelona Suite”.
巴勃罗·毕加索，《侏儒舞者》，1901/1966
Pablo Picasso, La danseuse naine, 1901/1966, Lithograph in colors, made after an original work, 75.5x55cm
In 1904, Picasso moved to Paris and lived in the Montmartre, a popular and bohemian area where people from all parts of the world, and often with few economic resources lived. Picasso interacted with them and depicted scenes of poverty and illness. At that time, many artists settled there, and the neighborhood was transforming, in a very short time, into the literary and artistic hearth of the city. At the foot of the Montmatre hill was placed the Medrano’s Circus; he loved to attend circus with his friend the famous poet Apollinaire and many others. Picasso admired the free and independent souls of wandering artists.
In 1913, the reputed printer, Ambroise Vollard, bought practically all the etchings made by Picasso between 1904 and 1906. By doing so, he achieved the first collection of Picasso's graphical pieces La Suite des Saltimbanques
巴勃罗·毕加索，《简单的一餐》，1913
Pablo Picasso, Le Repas frugal, 1913, lithography, 46.3x37.7cm
Picasso's facet as a book illustrator occupies a prominent place in his work as an engraver, having been overshadowed by the magnitude of the general set of his graphic work.
We are faced with one of the most elegant and harmonious groups of illustrations, made with a clear overview and joined by a predominance of the curved, almost labyrinthine lines, put at the service of the best Picasso classicism.
Picasso produced thirty etchings to illustrate Ovid’s “Metamporphose” in which more than 250 transformations of mythological characters are related. It was during a stay in Boiusgeloup with his companion Marie-Thérèse Walter, between September and October 1930; the illustrations are full of tension and delicate eroticism.
本次展览有两个重要的 tauromaquia 系列：毕加索在这个主题上最杰出的作品之一是他的插图“La Tauromaquia o Arte de Torear de Pepe Illo”（Tauromachy 或 José Delgado 的斗牛艺术，别名 Pepe Illo），来自塞维利亚的斗牛士何塞·德尔加多 (José Delgado) 的文字，他在 18 世纪撰写了一篇关于斗牛的教学论文。
即使生活在很难看到斗牛表演的法国南部，毕加索也会想尽办法结识斗牛士观看表演，这造就了他与斗牛士路易斯·米格尔·多米吉恩的友谊，毕加索也为这段伟大友谊的留下了考究的版画：Toros y toreros （Bulls & Bullfighters），其中包括 1957 年至 1959 年间制作的石版画和蚀刻版画，其中文字部分由当时他最喜欢的斗牛士、他的好朋友 Luis Miguel Dominguín完成。
Picasso was fond of bullfighting since he was a child. His father, José Ruiz Blasco, brought him to the arena in Malaga and at La Coruña. The figures of the bull and bullfighter fascinated the little Pablo from the very beginning; his fascination with bulls and the world of bullfighting stayed with him for his whole life and became a recurrent theme in his work.
There are two important tauromaquia Series in this exhibition: One of Picasso’s most prominent works on the subject is his illustration of “La Tauromaquia o Arte de Torear de Pepe Illo” [Tauromachy or the art of bullfighting by José Delgado, alias Pepe Illo], with text of José Delgado, a bullfighter from Seville who in the 18th century wrote a didactic treatise that defines the pureness of bullfighting. Even though lived in southern France where it is difficult to see bullfighting performances, Picasso tried his best to get acquainted with the bullfighters and watch the performances. This led to his friendship with the bullfighter Louis Miguel Dominguin; and also elegant lithographs to celebrate this great friendship: Toros y toreros [Bulls & Bullfighters], which comprises lithographs and etchings made between 1957 and 1959, accompanied by a collaboration in the form of written text by the person who at the time was his favourite bullfighter, his great friend, Luis Miguel Dominguín.
巴勃罗·毕加索，《公牛与斗牛士系列》，1961
Pablo Picasso，Toros y Toreros，1961, lithography, 27x37cm
Dans l´Atelier presents some of the works Picasso produced during 1957 at La Californie, the large house-workshop that he bought in 1955, enamoured by its isolation and the excellent views it afforded of the bay of Cannes. This series of paintings does not have a clear theme, but like a diary, it randomly records the artist's thoughts and thoughts at this stage. At this time, Picasso was already in his old years, seemed to look back his life. This book is accompanied by a brief text by Jaume Sabartés, Picasso’s secretary and friend for over thirty years, in which he offers insights to the origins of the artist’s family and reflects on his personality.
巴勃罗·毕加索，《坐女》，1957
Pablo Picasso, Figure, 1957, lithography, 32,2x43,5cm
If anything can explain Picasso’s complex personality it was his curiosity, his immense desire to know and experiment. This new technique was to provide him with the perfect conjunction of the expressiveness and speed of painting, the methodology of engraving, or the control of the third dimension of sculpture.
Picasso started in ceramics as a mature man in 1947, at the age of 66, in the town of Vallauris (France), Madoura Atelier. He began by making plates, dishes, and pitchers, he paints them with coloured glazes, affording these simple everyday objects a new quality; thus, Picasso achieves the metamorphosis of turning simple everyday objects into works of art. These early exercises on plates soon led to the production of traditional models, in which volumetry came into play, in the form of pitchers, vases or bottles, which in some cases he altered to make pitchers and bottles with a zoomorphic or anthropomorphic shape. Prominent in a third stage were small sculptures or pieces without the functionality that the earlier ones had had and which somehow became a three-dimensional representation of characters taken directly from his paintings.
His work in the third dimension, ceramics, was new territory to conquer, and again the artist displayed the same degree of interest and daring, respect and mastery as in painting or etching.
巴勃罗·毕加索，《灰色的脸》，1953
Pablo Picasso, GREY FACE, 1953, Rectangular dish, 32x39cm
The exhibition will also exhibit nine photographs taken by Hungarian-American photo journalist Robert Capa for the Picasso family. These photos overturned the image of Picasso's public image as a genius artist, allowing the audience to know and understand this great artist more comprehensively.
巴勃罗·毕加索，《毕加索巡游》，1948
Pablo Picasso, Picasso Parade, 1948, Silver print, 20x31cm
Pablo Picasso (1881.10.25-1973.4.8), Spanish painter, sculptor, member of the French Communist Party, one of the most creative and influential contemporary artist, also one of the greatest artist of the 20th century.
Picasso has switched his painting style several times during his life, and created more than 30,000 works of art. His imagination feeds on everything around him. Its inspiration finds its sources both in ancient cultures, in distant civilizations, or in the environment that surrounds it.The artistic language of sense, the use of distortion, exaggeration and original cubist deconstruction artistic techniques, has achieved a unique artistic style.
展览授权机构：
Authorized by: Sucesión Pablo Picasso
借展机构：
马拉加毕加索故居博物馆及私人收藏
Artworks from: Colección del Museo Casa Natal de Pablo Ruiz Picasso. Ayuntamiento de Málaga and private collectors
Museo Casa Natal de Pablo Ruiz Picasso was created by the city government of Málaga, Spain in 1988. Headquartered in artist’s birthplace, it aims to promote Picasso’s arts and spirits globally. The facility includes a Picasso documentation center, art collections, a department of cultural promotion, which organizes expositions and conferences; and the Museo Casa Natal. Since the 1990s, the museum has been cooperating with other organizations to hold exhibitions in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and the United States, South Korea and many other influential cultural institutions around the world.
