Picasso loved engraving and lithography to such an extent, that he dedicated seventy years of his life to it. His beginnings in terms of engraving, however, were neither at the School of Fine Arts of ...
The kitchen and restaurants, protagonists of Picasso’s still-lifes
The still life, a genre considered to be minor in painting, in the case of Picasso and other artists, takes on a special relevance during the cubist period, a movement born in bars and restaurants, ...
The birth of a young promise in the Quatre Gats
The alehouse-tavern-hostel called the Quatre Gats opened its doors in 1897, during a period of full artistic effervescence. Barcelona was living a "golden age" of lights and shade with the demographic growth caused by the ...