21 Sep 2021

Musée d’Orsay. Picasso exhibition

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Don’t miss the opportunity to visit the Picasso exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay. The last days of the exhibition are until January 6, 2019.

“I depict the world not as I see it, but as I think it,” said the artist.

Such a number of paintings in one place! They say that it cost the French government a lot of money to hold this exhibition, the first time such a number of Picasso paintings in France and they say that it may be the last time.

A few interesting facts:

  • He was born in a family of an artist and a teacher of a school of fine arts, so his talent for drawing was recognized and had the opportunity to develop at an early age.
  • He often uses a pigeon in his paintings, in memory of his father, because when he first learned to paint Picasso began by drawing pigeons (in his father’s studio).
  • Picasso preferred his mother’s name to his father’s because she had always encouraged him to follow his father’s atypical style. His father, on the other hand, was a stickler for more classical drawings.
  • At a time when Picasso’s work was not a success, it was the Americans Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo who were his greatest benefactors, and who held exhibitions of his work at their home.
  • Picasso is the most expensive artist in the world and he is considered to be the founder of Cubism.