27th March 2013

Anecdotes and impressions of the 50th anniversary

On Saturday March 9th the Museu Picasso celebrated the 50th anniversary of its inauguration. Quite a milestone, particularly if we take into account the Barcelona of 1963 and the political environment of the time.

Placement of the plaque of the Museu Picasso. c. 1966. Photo: Hernández

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29th October 2012

The images of the Big Draw 2012!

Despite the threat of rain, this year’s Festa del Dibuix was a major success of participation! A Big Thanks to the big and small ones, workshop leaders, institutions, monitors and collaborators for making this day a big Big Draw! And here we leave you with a small selection of the photos that were taken:

Cercle Artístic Sant Lluc

Drawing the city. Drawing the Big Draw with Sagar and Swasky
Pieces from a jigsaw with Pep Puig and Marta Peribáñez
Sketching sessions with live modelsNotes session with a live model

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18th October 2012

The Big Draw, la Festa del Dibuix is Back!

For the third year in a row, pencils are being sharpened in preparation for the return of the Big Draw on Sunday 21st October.  This festivity is a proposal that originates from London and that little by little has spread around the world.  Pencils, felt tip pens, paints, cardboard, paint brushes, pieces of paper or just bits of paper… all the materials are valid for letting your imagination fly and starting to draw, from toddlers to the oldest ones, drawing is ageless!

Very happy with the results of the previous years, this year we’re repeating the experience with more workshop leaders, spaces and collaborators. Read more »

26th July 2012

What to do in the summer at the Museu Picasso

Will you be spending your summer holidays in Barcelona? Both if you are from the city or from outside, we propose a number of activities so that you can spend a cool time away from the heat:

28th June 2012

The 2012-2013 season in the Museu Picasso

With Bernardo Laniado-Romero at the front, a new period starts for the museum, with a lot of enthusiasm both from the new director and from the team of the museum. In his presentation of the new 2012-2013 season, he outlined the following lines of action:

• To consider the collection as the central axis of the work of the museum.
• To conceive the tasks and functions of the museum with an eminently pedagogical character.
• To foster the access of the public to art and culture, in a special way for those collectives that have traditionally been excluded.
• To boost access to knowledge and fluent dialogue between works of art and the public.
• To foster local-global access: on the one hand, in terms of its surrounding area (neighbourhood – city), and on the other hand, at a global level, through a creative and dynamic website.
• To offer a quality experience both onsite and online.

Self-portrait. Pablo Picasso. 1899-1900. Cardboard on paper 22.5 x 16.5 cm Donation by the artist, 1970 © Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid 2012

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20th June 2012

Pi, pica, picas(so): music and neighbourhood in the museum

Within the project entitled Pi, pica, picas(so), and for the second year in a row, the Museu Picasso opened its doors one Spring Monday for the boys and girls from the nursery schools of the neighbourhood to offer them a live music concert given by the group Tres & Jazz. The musical proposal was inspired by a selection of five paintings, a piece of pottery by Picasso and some photographs that the children had the chance to look at and observe in detail during the school course.

Children from the neighbourhood in the middle of a concert

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7th June 2012

Collage for adults with Gloria Vilches

This past May we held a collage workshop with Gloria Vilches within the framework of the exhibition “A collage before collage”. Four very intense sessions that led us through the history of the collage to subsequently be able to make our own works by cutting out and sticking various materials.

Album with images of the workshop

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15th March 2012

‘Seen by…’: The Importance of Talking in front of the Artwork

Here at the museum we are starting a new season of ‘Seen by…’, our special programme of guided visits to the collection led by rather out-of-the-ordinary guides: we ask professional people from very different backgrounds to talk about their responses to the works on show, in terms of their particular links to their own creative endeavour and their visual and cultural imaginary. Architects, writers, circus artists, dancers, painters, photographers, scientists, poets, designers, art critics, film and theatre directors and more… a wide range of creative talents from the most varied fields have shared their perspectives and points of view, enabling us see the works with new eyes and break away from the historicist approaches that so often shape the way we engage with Pablo Picasso’s art and at times tend to alienate rather than bring us closer to it.

Seen by… Sol Picó: a vision from the world of dance Read more »

24th February 2012

The history of Barcelona as told by the medieval courtyards of the Museu Picasso

One of the first tasks undertaken by the Centre for Knowledge and Research, soon after it was founded in 2009, was to ask the firm of Veclus, s.l. to carry out an architectural history study of the five palaces on carrer Moncada that are the current home of the Museu Picasso.

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8th February 2012

Of Princes and Heroes at the Reading Club

The discussion of Javier Pérez Andújar’s autobiographical novel Los principes valientes — in which he talks about the relationship between the town of Sant Adrià del Besós and the city of Barcelona, about ​​the river as a vital border, about how we build up our imagination with what we read and a whole multifarious mix of cultural myths — was characterized by a warmth that contrasted with the intense cold outside.

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