Picasso Museum of Barcelona

Yellow triangles, green noses, circles, square and blues and reds that superimpose each other. Using a selection of works by Pablo Picasso, the aim is that the children observe and reflect on shapes and colours.

We use simple geometrical shapes to help with recognition and to explore the importance of the gesture when creating these shapes, as well as the use of colour and its value.

Throughout his life, Picasso painted in so many different ways that it sometimes seemed that the works were not created by the same artist.

In this workshop, visitors will explore the various ways the artist uses to represent reality and they will relate this to his personal environment and with the events of his time.

We learn about the Barcelona of Picasso's time, when he spent some years of academy training in a city undergoing development and in which he discovered the modern painting of the time, and we will compare it with the Barcelona of today.

After the visit to the rooms, focusing on the works where the city is the subject, there will be a fun and interactive workshop activity based on the popular game of the goose.

An artist is not born but made. Starting from this premise, students will discover how the figure of the artist is shaped by a series of personal, social, historical and artistic factors and circumstances.

Objectives:

• To place Picasso’s life and work in relation to his time: the ideas, events and people that formed his context.
• To compare and contrast the lives and the socio-cultural context of the students with those of the artist.
• To carry out a visual project based on the students’ own environment.

This workshop is organized around the only painting of Picasso which is exhibited in its completed form, created from the work of Las Meninas by Velázquez.

We will show how Picasso worked, and explore the use he makes of the "series". From here, we work on the concept of the series as a creative process, by means of the use of photography, in an exercise that encourages group work.

Through the work of Picasso and seeing him work in the film El Misteri Picasso (The Mystery of Picasso) (Henri Georges Clouzot, 1956), we study the social, scientific and cultural context of the period at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century and how the artists of the time changed in their way of thinking, looking and representing. This helps us to understand the so-called avant-garde of the world of art as a process of breaking with tradition.

"Barcelona... That is where everything started..." said Picasso, remembering his years here. We suggest that you trace the path he took and get to know the places that Picasso was familiar with in Barcelona, the city where he carried out his training as an artist.

For the Barcelona artists, Paris and the events that took place there were a constant source of inspiration. Picasso mirrored himself on the modern artists until he reached his artistic maturity, the time when he himself became a model to follow.

Open windows, sunny landscapes, balconies... Based on a selection of works from the Museum collection, this visit will show us that landscape was a recurring genre in the artistic career of Picasso.

An artist is not born, he is made. Based on this premise, we explore the figure of the artist as a result of an accumulation of circumstances which surround him: personal, social, historical and artistic aspects.

Copy, appropriation, reinterpretation, version, original work? The analysis of the series Las Meninas allows us to study the idea of appropriation, present throughout the history of art: how new works are created based on the works of other artists.