Museu Picasso
I was delighted to receive from a certain person an early Christmas gift in the form of tickets to the Museo Picasso in Barcelona. I took this morning off so that the two of us could visit the exhibition. As well as the permanent collection, including many early works of by Picasso, we saw a special exhibition juxtaposing works by Picasso and Joan Miró (who was a great admirer of Picasso). The influence of the former on the latter is very clear when you see the works together, though they remain stylistically very separate. This part of the exhibition is shared between the Museo Picasso and the La Fundación Joan Miró, which is a clever way of getting people to visit both museums. Some works by Miró included The Farm shown in the gallery below – have been moved to the Picasso Museum in the centre of Barcelona and some works by Picasso have been moved to Montjuic where the Miro Foundation is located; my visit there will have to wait until I return after the Christmas break.
The permanent collection in Museo Picasso seems like an exhibition of work by many different artists. It starts off with paintings and drawings he did while still a teenager (like the one I posted here), an art student, and then many works done when he had moved to Paris at the end of the 19th Century. These show him absorbing many influences and mastering many techniques before he found his own original approach. Most of paintings he made becoming famous are elsewhere, but there are examples of later work (including ceramics) in this gallery. The evolution of Picasso’s art is amazing to see.
Here is a selection of what can be seen
A visit to the Picasso Museum is a feast in itself but after almost three hours wandering around we had to leave to get lunch…
In the Dark 
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