Alright, you knew this was coming, so lets get right down to it. I went and saw an amazing museum this weekend. Surely the next like five blogs will be all about it, so put on your art history caps. This week's featured artist is the one and only Pablo Picasso. "But Kason", you say, "Pablo was born in Màlaga, Spain, not Paris France." Yes, I know, but we must follow Parisian custom and take all the credit for the complete works of every artistic genius to have ties to the country (Leonardo Da Vinci, Ernest Hemmingway, every pope etc.). The truth is, Pablo moved to Paris in the early 1900s and lived the remainder of his life in France (he died in 1973), so I guess the French ought have claim to his works. There certainly are a lot to claim, since he produced 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints and engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures, making him the Guinness record holder of most prolific painter ever. Pretty cool, huh? The Musée Picasso is located in a beautiful ex-hotel hidden away on a tiny street sort of by the Pompidou Centre, and has got to be the most comfortable and inviting museum I've been in. This might be because there was nearly no one there. I loved it here, and I believe that after a few hours I had begun to understand the paintings. A little bit anyway. The Museum has more than 3000 of his works.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
This week's museum
Alright, you knew this was coming, so lets get right down to it. I went and saw an amazing museum this weekend. Surely the next like five blogs will be all about it, so put on your art history caps. This week's featured artist is the one and only Pablo Picasso. "But Kason", you say, "Pablo was born in Màlaga, Spain, not Paris France." Yes, I know, but we must follow Parisian custom and take all the credit for the complete works of every artistic genius to have ties to the country (Leonardo Da Vinci, Ernest Hemmingway, every pope etc.). The truth is, Pablo moved to Paris in the early 1900s and lived the remainder of his life in France (he died in 1973), so I guess the French ought have claim to his works. There certainly are a lot to claim, since he produced 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints and engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures, making him the Guinness record holder of most prolific painter ever. Pretty cool, huh? The Musée Picasso is located in a beautiful ex-hotel hidden away on a tiny street sort of by the Pompidou Centre, and has got to be the most comfortable and inviting museum I've been in. This might be because there was nearly no one there. I loved it here, and I believe that after a few hours I had begun to understand the paintings. A little bit anyway. The Museum has more than 3000 of his works.
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