I saw a very interesting temporary exposition in the National Museum in Warsaw called Picasso lately, and today’s post will be all about it. Learn more about Pablo Picasso and see few works of his reading this post now!

Pablo Picasso is a Spanish artist who was classically educated, but he was born is such a time that he was doing nothing but experimenting. He was born in Malaga in 1881. The place where he was born is known as Museo Casa Natal Picasso now, and this institution collaborated with National Museum in Warsaw, and this exposition that I saw is a fruit of it… I want to go to Spain even more now!

Picasso’s art is cubism. In other words it’s a geometrical conception of art, but the fact that he was born in Malaga that has Greek roots was a huge inspiration for this artist as well.

Well, the exposition was divided into 4 parts: Ideal of Beauty, Myths, Ceramics and Polish Story.

At first all you see is simply portraits. But some kind of collections were appearing there very often. It’s like each painting was representing something a bit different, but put it all together can make the most sense.

There were many works of art referring to mythology because as I’ve already mentioned, it’s all thanks to Picasso’s education and the place where he was born – Malaga.

Well, also the Spanish Civil War and World War II changed his art and that’s why it’s so chaotic, full of tension and disturbing.

Picasso was also making graphics to books… Did you know?

Minotaur, Faun and centaur were his fav characters from Myths, and Picasso was simply identifying with them the most.

Corrida was also a very popular motive in his art!

And now a little Polish thread. He came to Poland in 1948 for the World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace in Wrocław. And yes, he was a communist, but he probably didn’t know what it was really about… By the way he bought his woman (Françoise) a Polish sheepskin coat in Kraków that come from Nowy Targ (Tatra Mountains). But he also was in National Museum in Warsaw and this way the Polish museum got his ceramics (you’ll see what I mean below). After this trip (he spent two weeks in Poland) he created the biggest collection called Woman in the Armchair. Well, it was probably some kind of apology because he supposed to be here for just three days, and I heard that Françoise was really mad…

The last part is ceramics. All these from the Polish museum exist in just one copy, but some were also borrowed from Spain.

So, that’s it. The next post will be… The Best of R5/The Driver Era! One of my fav bands…

Love, A.A.