From February 15th until July 15th 2012 Tate Britain in London is showing an impressive exhibition entilted Picasso and Modern British Art.
Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), born in Spain, was one of the leading modern art artists. Together with Georges Braque he was a co-founder of the style in art known as cubism. Picasso and Modern British Art for the first time looks at the relationship between Picasso and modern British artists. It focuses on the influence which Picasso‘s art had over seven leading British artists from the different generations: Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and David Hockney. The exhibition in Tate Britain features 150 art works, almost half of which are by Pablo Picasso. It presents his paintings collected and exhibitied in Britain between the First World War and the time after the Second World War. Impressive collection of Picasso‘s works includes his designs made in London in 1919 and also such remarkable paintings as The Three Dancers (1925) or Weeping Woman (1937).
The aim of the exhibition is to reveal the contribution of the British writers, collectors or artists to the understanding of Picasso’s art. It also allows the viewer understand how Britain responded to Picasso’s work, how did he arrive in Britain and affected British art and ideology. Presenting Picasso’s works of art shown alongside the British art inspired by him allows for the constant comparison, when visiting the exhibition. At the same time, viewers can admire tremendous skill of the one of the most prominent artist of all time.
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