Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso is misschien wel dé belangrijkste kunstenaar van de twintigste eeuw. Telkens weer wist hij zich op cruciale momenten te vernieuwen. Of het nu gaat om zijn expressieve schilderijen uit de blauwe- en roze periode, de gefragmenteerde wereld van het kubisme of het vervreemdende realisme van zijn classicistische schilderijen, keer op keer bewees hij zich als avant-garde kunstenaar pur sang. In het Tritonkabinet toont het Gemeentemuseum een...

1932 was an extraordinary year for Picasso, even by his own standards. His paintings reached a new level of sensuality and he cemented his status as the most influential artist of the time. Over the course of this year he created some of his best-loved works, from colour-saturated portraits to surrealist drawings, developing ideas from the voluptuous sculptures he had made at his newly acquired country estate. In his personal life, throughout 1932,...

Picasso's artistic output is astonishing in its ambition and variety. Picasso and Paper examines a particular aspect of his legendary capacity for invention: his imaginative and original use of paper. He used it as a support for autonomous works, including etchings, prints and drawings, as well as for his papier-collé experiments of the 1910s and his revolutionary three-dimensional "constructions," made of cardboard, paper and string. Sometimes his...