Often painters write poetry and are friends of poets. For Picasso it was clear that painting and poetry were united. "After all...all arts are just one. You can write a painting with words, just as ...
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 ...
Picasso on record: testimonies. Joan Gaspar
Joan Gaspar Farreras (Barcelona, 1941) comes, on his father's side, from a family of gallery owners, and on his mother's side from a lineage of doctors. Collocating the plaque with the name of the museum on ...
Talking about Picasso’s Guernica at Montjuïc
The Generalitat de Catalunya’s Memorial Democràtic initiative has organized a series of activities, exhibitions and talks to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Civil War bombing of the civilian population. Guernica. Pablo Picasso, 1937. Oil on ...