Picasso Romanesque
1906 and 1934, two dates that define the relationship between Picasso and the Romanesque art. In 1906, in a key moment of his style transformation, the artist settled for some months in a village called Gósol, located in the Catalan Pyrenees. Almost thirty years after that, in 1934, he visited the Romanesque collection that these days you can see in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.
This exhibition include about 40 works and you find it in the exhibition rooms of Romanesque art. This is not about establishing a mechanical relation between the Romanesque works and Picasso's or about finding influences, because one of the most remarkable aspects of Picasso's style was his uniqueness and his capacity to turn any influence into something absolutely different without losing, but improving, the original ones. This is about trying to grasp possible affinities between both of them.
This exhibition include about 40 works and you find it in the exhibition rooms of Romanesque art. This is not about establishing a mechanical relation between the Romanesque works and Picasso's or about finding influences, because one of the most remarkable aspects of Picasso's style was his uniqueness and his capacity to turn any influence into something absolutely different without losing, but improving, the original ones. This is about trying to grasp possible affinities between both of them.
