Following Picasso
Have you gone on an art tour to Spain. Find a cozy room in one of many quaint hotels. Malaga Spain is the birth city of Pablo Picasso and you don’t want to miss it. Right in the city of the sun you will find the Picasso Museum. Barcelona has been claiming to be the home of Picasso and he may have lived there off and on over the years but Malaga is his birth home. Barcelona has tried to hang on and did finally build a Picasso museum as well but what it mainly houses the works of a longtime friend of Picasso.
The Picasso Museum in Barcelona opened finally in 1966. There you can see many early works of art from they young Picasso. Childhood drawings done when he was ten to fourteen when he was in La Coruna. You can also see his blue period paintings. Also, the Las Meninas, the 44 cubist studies. Visitors can also take the walk out into the city and see the path of his life, which include the family apartments and the artists favorites places.
There is another intimate Museum of Picasso in Andalucian city of Malaga which is were Picasso was born. This museum houses the private pieces that was given to family, friends or kept for himself. The most noted painting he made for himself was of his wife who was deemed insane. He painted the Olga Kokhlova con Mantilla in 1917. Most of these pieces where give to the museum by Picasso’s Daughter-in-law and his grandson. After visiting the museum visitors can also take a tour of the artists childhood home which also has some sketches and sculptures.
Madrid is were enthusiasts can find Picasso’s most famous work, the Guernica. A black and white canvas displaying his shocking view of the German bombing of the basque Village. So if you are fortunate enough to see his whole path then try to start at the old Roman Palace in Malaga which was birthplace of such an extraordinary artist.