A major exhibition exploring, for the first time, the wide-reaching influence of Pablo Picasso on everything from painting and sculpture to film and advertising has opened at the Grand Palais in Paris.
Picasso.Mania, which opened on Wednesday, has brought together work by some of the most renowned contemporary artists and filmmakers, from David Hockney and Jasper Johns to Roy Lichtenstein, Jeff Koons and Jean-Luc Godard, to trace how the impact of Picasso’s work goes far beyond the realm of visual art – and can still be felt to this day.
The blockbuster autumn exhibition, which features 78 artists, is centred around three pivotal moments in the Spanish artists’s life: cubism; his works from the late 1930s when he first created his archetypal image of the turned face; and his late works, which were exhibited in the 1970s in Avignon. It also focuses on the lasting cultural legacy of Picasso’s most emblematic works: Guernica and Les Demoiselles D’Avignon.
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