Pablo Picasso
12 Feb - 29 May 2011
PICASSO: PEACE AND FREEDOM
11 February – 29. May 2011
“I believe in life rather than death. I believe in peace rather than war!" Pablo Picasso
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is intrigued by Picasso. The museum has three fine works by the artist in its collection as well as drawings and prints, and throughout its 50-year history Louisiana has shown no less than four Picasso exhibitions. It is therefore with great joy and pride, that the museum from February will be presenting Picasso: Peace and Freedom with a selection of about 100 works that show the artist's social and political commitments in the period from 1944 until his death in 1973.
This Cold War period was a time for reflection and deliberation after the horrors of Guernica and World War II, in which the artist had lost several of his friends either at the front or in the concentration camps. But despite the horror and grief, Picasso raised his art to a new level so it flourished in a perspective of hope – a typical reaction for the brilliantly creative artist.
Picasso: Peace and Freedom is divided into eight themes: Nature morte (still lifes), The Women from Algeria, Las Meninas, Picasso’s Arcadia, The Rape of the Sabine Women, Mothers and Musketeers, War and Peace and The Dove of Peace. Here paintings, drawings, lithographic prints, letters and photography are assembled to document how Picasso relates to key historical events.
The exhibition has been created as a collaboration with Tate Liverpool and Albertina in Vienna, and gives Louisiana a unique chance to unfold yet another theme in Picasso’s vast, multi-faceted oeuvre for the museum’s guests.
11 February – 29. May 2011
“I believe in life rather than death. I believe in peace rather than war!" Pablo Picasso
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is intrigued by Picasso. The museum has three fine works by the artist in its collection as well as drawings and prints, and throughout its 50-year history Louisiana has shown no less than four Picasso exhibitions. It is therefore with great joy and pride, that the museum from February will be presenting Picasso: Peace and Freedom with a selection of about 100 works that show the artist's social and political commitments in the period from 1944 until his death in 1973.
This Cold War period was a time for reflection and deliberation after the horrors of Guernica and World War II, in which the artist had lost several of his friends either at the front or in the concentration camps. But despite the horror and grief, Picasso raised his art to a new level so it flourished in a perspective of hope – a typical reaction for the brilliantly creative artist.
Picasso: Peace and Freedom is divided into eight themes: Nature morte (still lifes), The Women from Algeria, Las Meninas, Picasso’s Arcadia, The Rape of the Sabine Women, Mothers and Musketeers, War and Peace and The Dove of Peace. Here paintings, drawings, lithographic prints, letters and photography are assembled to document how Picasso relates to key historical events.
The exhibition has been created as a collaboration with Tate Liverpool and Albertina in Vienna, and gives Louisiana a unique chance to unfold yet another theme in Picasso’s vast, multi-faceted oeuvre for the museum’s guests.