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“There are only two bad things that can happen in life, one is to be Pablo Picasso the other one is not to be Salvador Dalí”. That is one of the things that Salvador Dali used to say (as a joke we suspect) about Picasso, his friend, a great artist who have translated his works and ideals into different world views.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in Malaga (Spain) in 1881, his father was a professor of drawing. He soon moved to La Coruna and then to Barcelona, where the young Paul began his artistic studies in an academic style and quickly contact groups modernists who change their form of expression.

In 1900 he moved to Paris for a short period of time. Upon returning to Barcelona, begins to work on a series of works in which he observed the influences of all the artists he has known or whose work has seen. He is like a sponge that absorbs everything, but it does not hold anything since is looking for a personal style. Between 1901 and 1907 developed the Blue Stage and Stage Rosa, characterized by the use of these colours. The painting of these initial years of the twentieth century is undergoing continuous changes. So he decided to start with Cézanne and he is going to develop a new formula pictorial alongside his friend Braque: cubism.

But just when Picasso is seen as a great revolutionary and when all the painters are interested in cubism, he cares about the classicism. The 1925 surrealist movement is not caught unaware by him, and although not openly participate, it will serve as a break with the above, in introducing his work distorted figures. His relationships with women, and the social situation, in very tumultuous times, will affect his work very seriously.

The Spanish Civil War and the bombing of Guernica moved him in such special way that resulted in the realization of the most famous work of contemporary art. Paris was his refuge for a long time. He died in Mougins in 1973, when preparing two exhibitions, demonstrating their creative abilities to the end, in his own words:’’ Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working. ‘’

The Museum Vittoriano in Rome reopened the season with the exhibition: Picasso 1917-1937, that will be held from 10 October 2008 to 8 February 2009. The years between the two great wars is a really crucial moment in his long career. During this twenty years, Picasso was going through several artistic phases. One of the aims of this exhibition is to show that this was his way of responding to many instances: return on (neoclassicism), abstraction, Surrealism, Expressionism, and so on. 
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