A story of…Picasso in Barcelona
Course at the Picasso Museum of Barcelona, within the programme “Territory of Creation: Picasso’s Catalan roots”.
This course aims to explore Picasso’s deep relationship with Barcelona, the city where he lived from the age of fourteen to twenty-three. It was here that he opened himself to modernity, formed his closest friendships, and built his artistic identity before making the decisive move to Paris.
PROGRAM:
Wednesday, 6 May, 18 h
Pablo Picasso portrait
The first session of this course offers a journey through the key moments of Picasso’s life and the most significant stages of his artistic career. With the aim of drawing a complete portrait of the artist, we will examine his iconography, the themes he explored, and his remarkable technical versatility, as well as his interests and ideology.
Wedsnesday, 13 May, 18 h
Picasso in Catalunya
Picasso lived in Catalonia during a decisive period of his personal and artistic formation: he arrived in 1895 at just 14 years old and left definitively for Paris in 1904, at the age of 23. From then on, he returned frequently to visit family and friends. Until his final exile, Catalonia remained the setting for experiences that deeply shaped both his personality and his artistic career.
Wednesday, 20 and 27 May
Two activities will be combined
Guided visit to the Picasso Museum Collection
Led by the Public Programs team of the Museum
The Picasso Museum of Barcelona is the key reference centre for understanding Pablo Picasso’s formative years. Its Collection, comprising more than 5,000 works, is an exceptional assembly of pieces created in Málaga, A Coruña, Barcelona, Madrid, and Horta de Sant Joan. It bears witness both to the artist’s solid academic training and to his strong artistic personality and emerging creative freedom. In addition, the Collection includes the complete series of Las Meninas, where he created his personal interpretation of Velázquez’s homonymous painting, a remarkable collection of graphic works, and the group of 41 ceramics donated by Jacqueline Picasso in 1982.
Itinerary through Picasso’s Barcelona
The Barcelona that Picasso knew during his adolescence and early youth is still alive today in the corners and narrow streets, cafés, and squares where he walked, lived, and learned to see. The personal relationships Picasso developed during his time there—family, friends, teachers, artists—will be the starting point of an itinerary led by an expert guide that will take us to discover Picasso’s Barcelona.
Led byAnna Pou van den Bossche is an independent curator and artistic director of the IDEAL Digital Arts Centre in Barcelona. She is a lecturer at the University of Barcelona, the International University of Catalonia, and Escola Massana. She has published monographs on Picasso, Goya, and Dalí, among other artists. She has regularly collaborated with radio and television as an art specialist, content creator, and presenter in programmes such as La Tarda (Catalunya Ràdio), Tot Art (Betevé), Àrtic (Betevé), This is Art, and La Selva (TV3).
Bookings at: https://tickets.museupicassobcn.cat
