Picasso: Challenging the Past
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009 -
Sunday, 7 June 2009
National Gallery, St Martin's Lane, Strand, WC2N 5DN
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Everybody knows Picasso: he is probably one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. He pioneered the radical style known as Cubism and was one of the key figures in the emergence of Modernism in the visual arts.
But what some people don't realise is how much he respected and was in turn influenced by the notion of an artistic heritage. Now the National Gallery seeks to rectify this through an exhibition exploring Picasso's enthusiasm for tradition.
Presented thematically, 'Challenging the Past' demonstrates Picasso's debt to the likes of Manet, Ingres, El Greco, Goya and Velázquez. A fascinating exhibition that explores in the visual arts what Harold Bloom identified in literature as the 'anxiety of influence'.
Until 07.06.09.
But what some people don't realise is how much he respected and was in turn influenced by the notion of an artistic heritage. Now the National Gallery seeks to rectify this through an exhibition exploring Picasso's enthusiasm for tradition.
Presented thematically, 'Challenging the Past' demonstrates Picasso's debt to the likes of Manet, Ingres, El Greco, Goya and Velázquez. A fascinating exhibition that explores in the visual arts what Harold Bloom identified in literature as the 'anxiety of influence'.
Until 07.06.09.
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