On Friday (March 18th) our group visited the Museum dedicated to Pablo Picasso, located in Le Marais, which is known as the cities Jewish and gay neighborhood. We were shown the museum by a guide, who started off with Piccassos work on sculptures and metal work. Many of Piccassos work with clay and stone sculptures were depictions of women. As was his style, their body parts and extremities were often exaggerated, particularly the nose. This style was also carried into his painting. His metal sculptures often depicted humanoid forms, put together from an assembly of metal rods and plates. One example being the goat head, a metal sculpture depicting a goat skull, which Picasso later translated into a painting.
Heading into the upper levels of the Museum, we were shown some of Picassos paintwork and drawings. These were drawings that were often angular and exaggerated like his sculptures, particularly in the nose. They were often paintings of people or animals, just like his sculptures were portraits of specific subjects. He also made use of a wide variety of vivid colors in his paintings, a number of which zere not only used to express his internal emotions and the subjects, but comment on current events of the time.
by Zak and Erlend
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