For museums the need has long been clear to rethink their cultural and social role and how their contents reach the public. The Covid-19 lockdown, apart from its immediate impact, has caused this reinvention process ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Inhabitants of the museum: The Infanta Margarita Maria, a tragic icon
When Velázquez painted Las Meninas in 1656, the most revolutionary portrait of a Royal Family until that moment until that moment, the Infanta Margarita Maria Teresa of Austria, who at that time was 5 years ...
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Josep Rocarol, the set designer who saved the monastery of Pedralbes
In October 1902 Picasso and his friend Josep Rocarol i Faura took the train from Barcelona to Paris. They were happy because they had just managed to avoid doing the military service after their respective ...
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One hundred years since the gift of The Harlequin
The Harlequin is one of the most emblematic paintings of the Museu Picasso, a painting that that shouldn’t be missing from any anthology of the permanent collection. Apart from its importance within the group of ...
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Inhabitants of the Museum: Pere Romeu, the soul of Quatre Gats
In the review of the inhabitants of the Museu Picasso, we take a stop at the figure of Pere Romeu, who we refer to as the soul of the Quatre Gats. A bohemian character and cultural promoter – but without capital for carrying out his projects, Romeu is the protagonist of some of the drawings that Picasso did in Barcelona’s legendary tavern and that form part of our permanent collection.
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Back home: from Paris to Barcelona
Since the large loan of works of the Museu Picasso of Barcelona for the major retrospective of the artist of the Museum of Modern Art of New York in (MOMA) in 1980, never have so ...