Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The 50th anniversary this year of Pablo Picasso’s death is being commemorated internationally. In this two-part Short Course Dr Jacqueline Cockburn explores Picasso’s extraordinary life and legacy, from childhood doodles, journeys to Barcelona and Paris, to his muses and mature obsession with the great Masters.
Includes two lectures, Q&A and a short break.
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Lecture One | The Boy from Malaga 1890-1900
Born in the small and poor provincial Andalusian town of Málaga in 1881, Picasso picked up his father’s brushes well before the age of eight and painted the world around him with its warm sun, bullfights and pigeons. This first lecture will explore those childhood depictions within the context of 19th century southern Spain under Alfonso XII and XIII. The move by boat to the more optimistic area of La Coruna in northern Spain took the young Picasso out of his linguistic and cultural comfort zone but led to art school and eventually to the heady city of Barcelona.
Lecture Two | Picasso’s Paris 1900-1914
Lecture two will follow Picasso’s move to Paris where the bohemian milieu suited his taste for experimentation and exploration. Initially keeping a wary eye on current trends in Paris, Picasso predictably broke the mould, as his largely monochromatic periods attest, but his Cubist development after Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon put him firmly at the head of the Parisian avant-garde.
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