One day I’m going to take a tour of the world’s great art museums. I’ve been to some already: The Louvre in Paris, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, as well as museums in London and Amsterdam; of course, this was all some time ago, and the number of museums I haven’t seen well out number the ones I have. I haven’t seen a single museum in Chicago or New York. Nor have I seen any museums in Philadelphia; I’ve been missing out on the Phildelphia Museum of Art in particular, one of nation’s largest.
Currently, in Philadelphia, there’s a Picasso exhibit titled, Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris. Picasso’s work abounds, from Spain to France to the States (where there’s a nice few artworks at the Norton Simon in Pasadena, to mention one), and ever since I saw a show that combined all his work together, I’ve always attempted to see his art anywhere it’s displayed. It’s difficult for some people to understand his work unless they see the art through all the various stages in his life, and that’s what this exhibition does. It follows Picasso and his career from his experiments in abstract art to the actual creation of Cubism; it includes, too, works that delve into Surrealism and various other art movements. Seen from this vantage point, it’s possible to see more precisely his role in the art world.
The focus will be on Picasso’s work from 1905 to 1945, his most creative and dynamic period, but the exhibit will also examine how Paris influenced the art world in that early half of the 1900s, and how many artists followed Picasso to that city. So the show will be larger than Picasso, including works from Marc Chagall, from Man Ray, Jacques Lipchitz, and Patrick Henry Bruce — collectively known as the School of Paris.
The show will run from February 24 until April 25 in 2010, just enough time to make arranges for a flight and book a room at a Philadelphia cheap hotel and see the art that inspired not only the 20th Century, but the 21st as well.
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