National Portrait Gallery,LondonYou won’t learn from this show how Picasso actually tore apart the portrait form as a way of seeingIf you have ever been fooled by sensationalist biographies that caricature the 20th century’s greatest artist as a destroyer of women, a selfish monster, or a man who always put his art ahead of the people around him,the National Portrait Gallery’s soft-centred exhibition of a Picasso always alert to sketch a lunch companion on a napkin or trot out hilarious cartoons of pals is the corrective you need.
Heck, it even has his domestic movies. Picasso is revealed in the London gallery as a tender lover and a gentle father. Intimate and classically lovely portrait drawings of his lovers Marie Therese Walter and Dora Maar, and shown side by side,suggest his deep and honest cherish for two women his art often contorts, eroticises and transforms. Portraits of his children Maya, and Claude and Paloma are similarly disarming. Related: Pablo’s people: the truth approximately Picasso's portraits Related: Is Kanye West hip-hop's greatest cubist? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com