Pablo Picasso, Girl Before a Mirror, 1932. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The 50th anniversary this year of Pablo Picasso’s death is being commemorated internationally. In this two-part Short Course Dr Jacqueline Cockburn explores Picasso’s extraordinary life and legacy, from childhood doodles, journeys to Barcelona and Paris, to his muses and mature obsession with the great Masters.
Includes two lectures, Q&A and a short break.
Lecture Three | Picasso and his Muses 1927-1945
When Picasso met the seventeen-year-old Marie-Thérèse Walter outside a department store in Paris in 1927 it was L’Amour Fou. She was young and vulnerable, he was older and married; but together over a decade and far longer in his thoughts, she was in many ways one of his greatest muses. This lecture considers her roles as clandestine muse, phallic muse, trapped muse and sleeping muse. It also charts his inspired work leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 when the new muse Dora Maar entered his life.
Lecture Four | Wrestling with the Masters: Picasso’s Later Years 1945-1973
Picasso always paid homage to the artists who went before him, but in the last three decades of his life he questioned notions such as his legacy and his position in the History of Art. With the backdrop of artists such as Edouard Manet, Diego Velazquez, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Francisco Goya, Eugène Delacroix and others he incorporated their work into his own, both dismantling them and joining them amongst the Masters of Art.
Please book here for: Part One of this course.
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