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Author: Judit Borus
ISBN: 9786155304545
Format: PB
Extent: 370 pp
Price: £37.00
Publication: June 2016
Publisher: Mus Fine Arts (John Rule)
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In collaboration with the Musée National Picasso, Paris, the Hungarian National Gallery holds an exhibition from the works of the most influential artist of the 20th century. The selection focuses on almost all of Picasso’s periods; particularly concentrating on the continual alterations of the shape of the human figure, the continuous attempts at capturing features, as well as the sort of innovations that the completed works entail.
Exceeding the traditional frames of portraiture and genre scenes, Picasso created a new category, whereby a human figure is disassembled into flat transparent geometric planes that overlap and intersect at various angles.
The central theme of the exhibition is change, which follows the development of Picasso’s distinctive artistic methods, with emphasis on the series, the recurring motifs and the exceptional breakthroughs. The exhibition congregates around eight subjects: Acrobats, Broken Mirror (The cubist affair), Clowns and Dancers (The line), Surrealist metamorphoses (The genesis of form), Monsters, Political figures, Pastorals and The essence of painting.
