Picasso art expo in Milan

Do you want to discover life, adventures, paintings and sculptures of the great Pablo Picasso?

Here we are, Diaries of an explorer is going to show you this: a journey through the incredible art of the Spanish painter.

The Picasso art expo in Milan, Italy, is still open to the public but until the 6th of January. I was lucky as my visit was booked at the beginning of October and I could go there just at the end of December…unless if you would have to face long and long queues as individual.

The Picasso art expo is located at the Palazzo Reale ( Royal Palace) close to the famous Piazza Duomo.

As probably this expo would deserve many posts about it I’m going to show you just one painting or sculpture per period or art style. 

• Blue Period: in this period Picasso was used to paint needy people like Celestine that had a cancer on her eye

• Pink period: in this period Picasso moved to Cote d´Azur and its style turned from sad into a more colourful and joyful one. Subject of his paiting are characters connected to the circus world, but also naked people su as the Two Brothers: 

• African period: here he started to paint characters more similar to sculptures or totems, sometimes even with African masks, like in Les Demoiselles d´Avignon.

•  Cubism: maybe the African period was a preliminary step before the Cubism, where Picasso represents the reality in short pieces like in a puzzle. Ma Jolie is an example of this: a woman with a zither or guitar.

• Classicism: after the cubism what was impressive was the return to the classicism, from a period where he broke the rules to an ordinary one. Check the Portrait of Olga on the sofa: it looks like a picture! 

• Surrealism: well when you see first Cubism, then Classicism and now a Surrealism you can only think about a person that thinks completely out of the box. From the point of view of Diaries of an Explorer this is completely great! :-) Well even this is not the most famous of this period I chose as replica in the shop The Dream, because of the image of relax and wellness of his lover Marie Therese.

• After the 1935 the bull starts to be a central character in Picasso art and this tauromachy is reflected in the most famous painting Guernica, a small town in Spain destroyed during the Spanish Civil War. A curious thing about this is that the Nazist ambassador of Germany asked Picasso if he did this, but Picasso replied: “No, it was you!´. 

and the other one the portrait of Jacqueline.

In the next post Diaries of an Explorer will go ahead with the Cote d´Azur and Provence road trip.

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