Today at the State Museum of Fine Arts named after AS Pushkin in the year of France in Russia opens the exhibition "Picasso. Moscow. From the Collection of the National Museum Picasso, Paris "

Today, 24 February, at the State Museum of Fine Arts named after AS Pushkin in the year of France in Russia opens the exhibition "Picasso. Moscow. From the Collection of the National Picasso Museum, Paris ».

National Picasso Museum in Paris - a unique collection of works of the great masters of the twentieth century. Hotel Sale, the architecture of the monument of Louis XIV, located in the Marais quarter, in 1985 became home to the artist's personal collection. She referred to the State of Picasso's family after his death, instead of the usual payment of inheritance tax. Bequest Jacqueline, wife of the artist (1990), the museum has received a significant additional number of works by Picasso, and in 1992 - his personal archive. Today, the Paris museum on the right is a major center of study of the life and work of Picasso in the world.

All other collection of works by Picasso are composed of works ever sold by the artist or galleries. Collection of the Museum Picasso in Paris - the only one of them, including the only things with which the artist did not part, choosing his companions in a long - more than 70 years - the creative life. They all have the imprint of personal, joyful or tragic, experiences wizard, keep the secrets of his doubts and experiments, sometimes not for prying eyes. All together paintings, drawings, sculptures, objects, documents, Picasso Museum convey the atmosphere of the creative laboratory of master and give rise to a sense of the living presence of the indomitable genius.

Picasso Museum is temporarily closed for renovation, has formed a traveling exhibition, intended for display in several countries. At the same time, while maintaining the basic core, the exposition in each case has its own specifics. Exhibition in Moscow includes a total of 240 pieces, not counting ancillary materials: 88 paintings, 30 sculptures and Sc. paintings, reliefs, 6 pieces of ceramics, 61 figure, 4 prints, 39 original photographs, 12 picture books. They provide a coherent and adequate representation of the level and composition of the world-famous collection of her masterpieces and unique internal logic.

display allows literally year by year to trace the evolution of all of the great artist, from his earlier experiments and ending with philosophical creations of the last years of his life.

will open an exhibition of the early years of the twentieth century - not the youthful, dramatic painting "Death Kasahemasa, works a blue period, marked melancholy (" Celestine "), rosy period, characterized by images of people from the world of the circus and wandering comedians (sculpture" Jester "), gouache" Two Brothers ", performed in 1906 in Gosole. Energy forced to experience the birth of cubism paintings, graphics and sculpture 1907-1908 period, including those associated with the design of the sign for the modern art paintings "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" ( "Seated Nude" and others). First-rate things are periods of "analytic" cubism ( "Man with Guitar", 1911) and "synthetic" cubism ( "A man with a mustache", 1914). Picasso was among the first turned to the technique of collage, which was to play an important role in the experiments of avant-garde artists ( "glass, a bottle of wine, a pack of tobacco, paper, 1914). Of particular interest are the so-called "picture-reliefs, where Picasso creates a special art space, balancing between painting and sculpture (glass, pipe, ace of clubs and dice, 1914).

Not giving up the experience of Cubist, Picasso, and in some papers of 1914 (" The Artist and his Model "), returns for a realistic language. This trend will be further developed in the works of the late 1910's - early 1920's, and it involves an appeal to the classical heritage, including the tradition of Ingres, which gave reason to speak of "neoclassical" by Picasso, the period "engrizma" in his work ( "Portrait of Olga in an armchair," 1918; "Village Dance", 1922, "Paulo in the costume of Harlequin, 1924). In those years, from 1917, Picasso engaged in registration of a number of non-repertory productions of Sergey Diaghilev. Cooperation with Diaghilev's Russian Ballet - a central episode theme "Picasso and Russia", the exhibition dedicated to him a special section (30 drawings and 20 photographs). Among the exhibits - the portraits of the Russian dancer Olga Khokhlova, became the wife of the artist himself Diaghilev and composer Igor Stravinsky's virtuosic and ironic sketches of theatrical costumes for the ballet "Parade", "Tricorne" Pulcinella, etudes for curtains and decorations.

especially on a large scale in the exhibition will be presented to the period of rapprochement with Picasso's surrealism, which began with the mid-1920. It is widely known abroad, such works rarely exhibited in Russia. It is they who will be available for the most spectacular space in the halls of the Pushkin Museum. So fascinating, then mocking vision-faces - a free and unfettered language of the mature works of Picasso - will appear in painting, sculpture, graphic outline. "Games" will be replaced by surrealism cutting, searing art of the late 1930's - early 1950's related to the theme of war and death - from "Cats, grabbed the bird" (1939) to the epic "Slaughter in Korea" (1951). This sharp social position of the artist partly offset by pleasant mood for the works associated with the "home" life masters (Claude drawing, Francoise and Paloma, 1954).

late, the final period of Picasso -- second half of 1950 - early 1970 - will be presented to large, weighty paintings, as if summarizing the creative work of an artist who enters into a dialogue with the great masters of the past ( "Breakfast on the grass by Manet, 1960). This completes the epilogue showing various facets of the creative personality of Picasso, his constant metamorphosis of style.

in Russian collections of fine features paintings of the artist before the First World War, as well as his later printed graphics. But such a complete and systematically built a panorama of Picasso as a whole Russia's viewers will see the first time. Nevertheless, according to the organizers, the works from the collection of the Pushkin Museum of AS Pushkin to enter into dialogue with the Parisian "guests" in the exhibition space.

A special audio-visual section of the exhibition will be on display documentary films about Picasso, including the film "Mystery of Picasso" by Henri Georges Clouzot, depicting the creative process of a great artist.

exhibition will run until May 23, 2010.

Source: museum.ru /gmii