Though Guernica made him a political target of the Fascist regimes, he remained in Paris for the duration of World War II, surviving the Nazi occupation. After the war Picasso moved to the south of France, where he would reside for the rest of his life. Classical, Mediterranean themes ...
Picasso meets Marie-Thérèse Walter in 1927, she also becomes his lover and muse at the same time. Besides paintings, a vast graphic oeuvre is created, such as first series of etchings. Picasso makes more and more sculpture as of 1928, as well as mixed media objects with wires and assemb...
Picasso had lived in France for a number of years, the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War had a distinct impact on him. The bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by Franco's government horrified the artist, and moved him to paint the powerful large-scaleGuernica, 1937, a poignant anti-...
Perhaps the best known work by Picasso is the famous painting Guernica, completed in 1937 as a protest against the cruel, Nazi-backed warfare inflicted upon the Spanish town of the same name during the Spanish Civil war in April of that year. A painting of titanic proportions, Guernica ...
Guernica(1937). One of the great treasures of theReina Sofia, Madrid. Introduction The greatest figure in modernSpanish painting, Pablo Picasso, the co-inventor (with Braque) ofCubism, is ranked among the top20th century paintersand must be one of the most influential artists in thehistory of...
PARIS — As far as family albums go, it doesn’t get more impressive than art historian and curator Diana Widmaier Picasso’s latest exhibition based on her grandfather Pablo Picasso’s oeuvre. Titled “Picasso and Maya, Father and Daughter,” it’s themed around the intimate artworks he mad...
Las Meninas is a very famous painting that was painted by Diego Velázquez and has been interpreted very differently over three centuries, one of the artists that has remade it is Pablo Picasso. Both the original and Picasso’s version have a very different take on the princess and her attend...
Pablo Picasso - Head of a Horse, Sketch for Guernica (Tête de cheval, étude pour Guernica),  courtesy The Guggenheim Museum Focusing on Picasso’s relentless drive and relative ambivalence to color contrasts, the show allows a strong perspect...
Pablo Picasso - Cubism, Modern Art, Masterpiece: After World War II an aura of myth grew up around the name of Picasso, and in the last decades of his life his work had, in a sense, moved beyond criticism. Although there were few critics able to keep pac