My goodness! I seem to have been neglecting this blog as of late. I haven’t been updating a lot as I’ve mainly been busy with full-time work and haven’t been going to many events recently! (Do check my tumblr though from time to time as I seem to update that more with bits from my life).
However, I am back to give you a brief summary of the Picasso exhibition that was just here in Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales!

Of course, since it was a temporary exhibition, I wasn’t allowed to take photographs, but I will try to list a couple of the ones which were featured in this post!
Note: If you were expecting to see Guernica, you can probably stop reading at this point since it was not one of the paintings featured in the exhibition, not because it wasn’t taken into consideration, but the painting is actually part of the Bilbao Guggenheim collection and not the one from the Picasso museum in Paris!
Now I will be honest and say that Picasso is not actually one of my favourite artists. There, I said it. There are particular pieces of his which I adore and love, such as The Portrait of Dora Maar (featured in the above advertorial for the exhibition), the aforementioned Guernica, and his Bull series which is a very clear and concise example of how to abstract objects/people/animals from real life, but he is actually not my favourite Cubist. That honour actually goes to Juan Gris. In actual fact, most of my favourite Picasso works come from his Blue and Rose Period.
I was a little disappointed that there were not that many of his Blue and Rose period works featured in the exhibition, but overall I felt that the exhibition was balanced in that it had examples from different stages of his life. The most fascinating part of the exhibition was that whoever curated it did a good job of demonstrating Picasso’s changes in style and artistic progress. It’s really interesting to see how someone evolves into their own style from the fundamentals of drawing which they start off with.
To finish off this post, here are some of my favourite pieces from the exhibition:
Bull series (lithograph, 1945)
Les baigneurs (bronze, 1956)
Jacqueline aux mains croisées (oil on canvas, 1954)
and of course, The Portrait of Dora Maar (oil on canvas, 1937)



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