New exhibition that compares both Picasso and Dali
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Spain's greatest 20th century artists Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali were both friends and rivals. Now an exhibition is showcasing their influences on each other's work, by displaying them side by side.
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L: Dalí's 'Apparatus and Hand' (1927); R: Picasso's 'Woman in a Red Chair' (1929) |
The work of two of the most celebrated artists of the last century, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, are being contrasted in a new exhibition in Barcelona.
On show is Dali and Picasso's versions of the Spanish royal family 'Las Meninas', focusing their gaze on the Princess Margarita.
Picasso's sharp angles and bright colours are typical of the Cubist style, Dali's portrait has a dreamlike quality.
Surrealism emerged in the 1920s as a subversive artistic movement.
Dali was immersed in the surrealism movement, a group that believed the subconscious held more truth than the conscious mind.
Picasso never joined the Surrealist group, although he showed a keen interest in their ideas. Dali and other Surrealists, however, proclaimed Picasso's work a fundamental source of inspiration.
"Picasso and (Georges) Braque are the two figures of Cubism. Further in time Picasso did not become a member of the Surrealist movement. But he becomes a figure that all surrealists look up to. He participates in exhibitions and publications of this movement. Whereas Dali is a fundamental and key figure of the Surrealist movement," said Bernardo Laniado-romero, director of Barcelona Picasso Museum.
The exhibition runs until June 28 and presents 78 works encompassing paintings, drawings, collages and prints as well as a selection of documents including letters and postcards that Dali and his wife Gala sent to Picasso.
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