Visit to the Picasso Museum

When one thinks of Spain, it is hard to not also think of one of its greatest painters, Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, also just know as Picasso. Barcelona just so happens to be home to the Museu Picasso, located on Carrer Montcada in the El Born. But unlike the Picasso’s famous works of cubism known around the world, the Museu Picasso in Barcelona sheds a different light on this famous painter. The Museu Picasso specializes in the early years or rather “blue period” of Picasso’s life. The walls of the museum are lined with dark and gloomy paintings in the style of realism. It is almost as though an entirely different painter did the paintings. Compared to his famous painting, Guernica, done in 1937 and now housed in the Museo Reina Sofia, in Madrid, the paintings of Picasso’s Blue Period are completely different in color and style. But the most interesting exhibit in the Museo Picasso was not a painting at all, but rather a television screen towards the end of the museum showing the similar shapes between his early works and his cubism paintings. While his color schemes and styles changed drastically, his forms and characters remained the same across both styles. The most apparent of these was that of a dog which appeared in most of his works. The television screen would outline the shape of the dog in one of his realism works and then overlay one of his cubism works on top of the first and show how Picasso kept the same form and spacing throughout all of his works, regardless of the time period.