Anne Baldassari, one of the world’s most important Picasso scholars, said Picasso himself was not interested in the development of concern. Baldassari was the chairman of the Picasso Museum in Paris from 2005 to 2014, and in 2012 he held the largest Picasso exhibition in Hong Kong: a solo exhibition with 56 paintings and sculptures from the museum’s collection.
“Picasso has always denied establishing ‘school’ or contributing to any arts movement.” She added that he experienced “he believed to be years of sterile academic training to represent the exact reality” and that he was “anarchists and liberal thinkers” who sought “full rest” and that he was like before.
He also likes to stay away from the eyes of the public. Baldassari said that between 1906 and 1914, he fundamentally reshaped paintings, refusing to display his paintings or allowing them to be published or sold. She noted that only those who visit his studio or obtain works, such as his collectors Gertrude and Leo Stein, can see them.
Picasso actually did meet Asian artists of his life: “You can count them with one hand,” says Dareau, co-curator of the M+ exhibition.
How did the Picasso Museum decide to lend it to M+ performance? Dalao noted that the selected works had an “interesting and coherent dialogue” with the M+ series and allowed “visitors visiting the exhibition to know nothing about Picasso to understand the different periods and styles of his career.” The Blue Period, Cube Period and Picasso’s Surreal Period were loaned in various media: painting, sculpture, painting, printing and ceramics.
The end of the largest Picasso loan and M+ exhibition from Paris was the “Korean Massacre” completed in January 1951. The work is Dareau said, the only Asian-themed Picasso painting, showing a man holding a gun and aiming at a group of guns, a group of naked women and children in his armor. It is inspired by past masterpieces of art history: Goya’s “The Third Day of May 1808” (1814) and Mait’s “Executive Emperor Maximilian” (a series drawn between 1867 and 1869).
