The Measure of the Man: Introduction to the de Young Picasso Exhibit
It is impossible to fully appreciate the breadth and depth of Picasso’s art without pouring through his catalogues raisonnés (the tomes that illustrate all of his known artworks). Visiting the Picasso Museum in Paris is as close as one can come to achieving this goal by looking at the actual art. The traveling loan from that museum at the de Young includes many masterpieces but is still a very small sample of his work. It’s about as representative as 150 of his artworks could be, but he created so many varied styles and subjects that they couldn’t be included in any depth, or some of them included at all, in a show of this size. The exemplars of the Blue […]
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