Picasso: Challenging the Past – study morning
Study morning at the National Gallery to accompany the “Picasso : Challenging the past” exhibition.
The morning consisted of three talks beginning with Christopher Riopelle one of the co-curators of the exhibition. He talked about what the exhibition is trying to show by examining the first room of self-portraits in detail. I’d not realised from going round the exhibition that each themed room works chronologically clockwise to help you see the themes of time as well as subject.
Next came Kathleen Adler, former Direct of Education at the National Gallery looking at the role of classical themes in Picasso’s work both traditional ones such as sculpture and the more thematic such as the Mediterranean.
Finally was Alex Danchev, author of “Picasso Furioso” which aimed to examine roots of the reasons he sought to challenge the past.
The question and answer session at the end was one of the best I’d heard as not only were the audience questions good but the speakers seemed genuinely interested in questioning each other about new ideas and gaps in Picasso study.
The morning consisted of three talks beginning with Christopher Riopelle one of the co-curators of the exhibition. He talked about what the exhibition is trying to show by examining the first room of self-portraits in detail. I’d not realised from going round the exhibition that each themed room works chronologically clockwise to help you see the themes of time as well as subject.
Next came Kathleen Adler, former Direct of Education at the National Gallery looking at the role of classical themes in Picasso’s work both traditional ones such as sculpture and the more thematic such as the Mediterranean.
Finally was Alex Danchev, author of “Picasso Furioso” which aimed to examine roots of the reasons he sought to challenge the past.
The question and answer session at the end was one of the best I’d heard as not only were the audience questions good but the speakers seemed genuinely interested in questioning each other about new ideas and gaps in Picasso study.
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