Precisely on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, on 25th November, the second session of the Doctorat Picasso focused on exploring the concealments and silences around women artists in current narrations ...
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The women in the time of Lola
Lola Ruiz Picasso (1884-1958), the artist’s sister, is the major protagonist of the autumn and winter of 2021-2022 in the Museum, with an exhibition that vindicates her figure. The exhibition frames Lola in the family ...
Luxury protection for ‘Science and Charity’
At the beginning of 1897, when Picasso was only 15 years old, he started to paint a large canvas so as to present it at the Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid. It was Science ...
The Museum as a tool of social inclusion
Far from the concept of a museum as a simple container of works, for some years now, the Museu Picasso has taken on the commitment to get involved with programmes of social inclusion for various ...
A 2020 with jewels, sketchbooks and a surreal object rescued from oblivion
The jewels and sketchbooks of Picasso are the protagonists of two of the major temporary exhibitions that can be seen in the museum this year, 2020, which deal with two little known aspects of the ...
Sánchez Arcas, the friend and guide of Picasso and Eluard in the Congress for Peace
Manuel Sánchez Arcas (1897-1970) was a very active architect during the 1920s and 1930s, and a man committed towards the republican cause. He was considered to be one of the maximum components of the Madrid ...
Massacre in Korea, the Guernica of the Cold War
In the middle of a desolate landscape, with the ruins of destroyed buildings in the background, the drama of war against the civilian population: six soldiers are about to shoot a group of women and ...
Encounter with Picasso’s poet friends
In which way can you relate the verses of two so different poets as Jacint Verdaguer and Rafael Alberti, with Picasso? This and other questions emerged in the symposium Au rendez-vous des poètes a Catalunya, ...