Pablo Picasso - Collection 1 - The unity of his work 📷 Malaga - Spain

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The Picasso Museum is the most emblematic museum in the city, it is said that no tourist can leave Malaga without visiting it, and in fact all the tours recommend it. Whether we like his work or not, the fact is that this artist is an icon of the city and wherever we go he is present in one way or another.

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I visited this museum for the first time in 2018, when I arrived in Málaga, two months after arriving, and I remember it as if it were today. The last two hours of the day on Sunday are free and that day I was so excited that I don't remember everything that was there, but I do remember that it was a time when you couldn't take photographs, it was forbidden. After the pandemic, I went again with my aunt and uncle and this time it was allowed to take photographs and to this day it is still possible.

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With the eagerness to go to so many museums, I kept putting off going to the most emblematic one again, but with a different perspective, a very attentive one, taking my time, calmly and looking carefully at each work.

The museum has both exhibitions referring to Picasso himself, as well as temporary exhibitions. The artist's great collection is made up of more than 140 works that are renewed to show his entire career and his life in art. In this way it is possible to show Picasso's great capacity to innovate in art and to combine different styles.

In conclusion, the museum's presentation of Picasso's work, in its different moments and periods, sometimes so different from each other, is to give a unified vision of him, a union of his life.

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After passing through the security checks, after queuing in the street, there were a lot of people, I was told where I had to start my visit. The museum is very large with several floors and each exhibition is immense. At that moment I realised that everything related to Picasso is divided into two collections. So on this occasion I bring you the first one. Due to lack of time I was only able to see the first collection and I hope to return soon to bring you the second one.

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The exhibition is entitled ‘Structures of Invention, the unity of a work’ and in it you will be able to see the variety of styles that Pablo Picasso's art went through, absorbing traditions and forms from different parts of the world and thus influencing his art.

In this first collection we see a bit of everything, but in general cubism, classicism and all the other stages of the painter are represented. I am convinced that it is possible to get to know the artist by looking at his works.

The exhibition is divided into thematic sections, which deal with the different moments in the artist's career.

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In the first section, called the unity of Picasso's multifaceted art, we talk about his childhood and his Spanish heritage as the basis of his art. Already at the age of fifteen he portrayed his sister Lola and goes beyond a simple portrait, showing things very typical of that Spanish tradition and also related to religious art. His works show a return to his childhood in the last years of his life, as a way of showing rejuvenation.

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The second section deals with the young Picasso, tradition and revolution, where the great amount of research that led him to the diverse artistic approaches he had.

Within this section I was able to see sculptures, oil paintings and many sketches that were not only captured in paintings with crystals but also in notebooks that were exhibited in showcases.

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There was also a section showing Picasso's work and his relationship with African sculpture in a different light. It was in Paris that he had this contact that would later forge the vocabulary of Cubism and much more.

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One of the artist's most famous works was ‘Les Demoiselles d'Avignon’ from 1907 and I could see a notebook with drawings that would later give rise to the final composition.

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The third section shows this harmony of opposites between cubism and classicism and where the revolution of cubism takes shape. Picasso himself said: "We all know that art is not the truth. Art is a lie that makes us see the truth". In this way he was able to unite these two opposites and the truth is that he did it very well.

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Within this section of the section, which in turn made me walk through several rooms as if arranged in a large labyrinth, I was able to see an enormous mural that was a representation of a photograph of Picasso's studio in 1920.

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In this section I was able to enjoy many of the painter's works, very good, beautiful and also notebooks of drawings and sketches, as well as a work where there is a child on a donkey, which is inspired by a photograph of his son in Paris.

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During the 1920s and 1930s Picasso reinvented himself in terms of themes and styles in his art and explored the female theme, depicting women as timeless, independent and dynamic, relating this to literature, mythology and art.

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The fourth section, entitled ‘Classic Women’, deals with women as the central theme of Picasso's entire oeuvre. The curious thing is that the artist's depictions of women are rarely portraits. In these works the artist's emotions are captured, inventing different forms and structures, and all of this is intermingled with the society and politics of the time.

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From this section, the work I liked most was ‘The Three Graces’, where the female beauty is perfectly captured, without explicit nudity, but focusing on their pensive faces rather than their bodies.

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At the end of this collection there was a poster and writing alluding to Picasso's work on wood. The artist used not only canvases in his life but also wood, on which he also painted in oils. He acquired the wood from fine commercial panels, art shops and also by reusing pieces of wood. He varied in sizes and styles giving variety not only in his paintings but also in the mediums used.

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The visiting hours were over and a voice echoed throughout the museum that we were to leave the premises, so I am left with the second collection of this original and world famous artist.

Thank you very much for joining me today, I send you my best regards. See you soon.
Amonet.

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