Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Behind-the-scenes Tour with the Director

Learn more about the exhibition Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art on view at the Met April 27, 2010 - August 1, 2010: http://tinyurl.com/MetPicasso

This landmark exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 - 1973) in the Museum's collection. It features three hundred works, including the Museum's complete holdings of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and ceramics by Picasso—never before seen in their entirety—as well as a selection of the artist's prints. The Museum's collection reflects the full breadth of the artist's multi-sided genius as it asserted itself over the course of his long and influential career.

Notable for its remarkable constellation of early figure paintings, which include the commanding At the Lapin Agile (1905) and the iconic portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906), the Museum's collection also stands apart for its exceptional cache of drawings, which remain relatively little known, despite their importance and number. The key subjects that variously sustained Picasso's interest—the pensive harlequins of his Blue and Rose periods, the faceted figures and tabletop still lifes of his cubist years, the monumental heads and classicizing bathers of the 1920s, the raging bulls and dreaming nudes of the 1930s, and the rakish cavaliers and musketeers of his final years—are amply represented by works ranging in date from a dashing self-portrait of 1900 (Self-Portrait "Yo") to the fanciful Standing Nude and Seated Musketeer painted nearly seventy years later.

The exhibition and the catalogue are made possible by the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation.

Producer and Director: Christopher Noey
Camera: Wayne de la Roche, Jessica Glass
Editor: Kate Farrell
Sound Recording: David Raymond
Production Assistant: Stephanie Wuertz

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[lovelplants]

very well said,

[michaelpousti]

great presentation.. congrats keep it up ..

[1123581321enter]

picasso

[keepcalmycarryon]

Ugh, Picasso's cubist phase was his artistic nadir.

[1123581321enter]

@cosg9531 how many have you seen?

[MusicRocksYou]

I WENT HERE TODAY

[cosg9531]

His drawings are crap.

[bigbono12]

@Garramedia Thank you. You are one of the few who seems to understand. We are living in a cultural wasteland and those who are the custodians of our heritage are as blind and unknowledeable as those they shoud be teaching. When and after the boom falls (WW3) there will be a great deal of teaching to do among other things (!).

[Garramedia]

@bigbono12

I completely agree, bigbono, try to see Francis Bacon or David Hockney talking about art an you'll see what difference!

[keatsgipsy]

Thank you

What a pleasure to see and enjoy,

thank you for posting!