What are the themes of Picasso's art?

The exhibition focuses on specific themes, showing how Picasso's imagery went through a constant process of metamorphosis. Printmaking, in particular, allows this fundamental aspect of his art to become vividly clear, since various stages in building a composition can be documented. read more

After this Picasso treats still life, with items taken from daily life such as newspapers, but it might really be argued that his themes with these cubist pictures were really spacial depiction and the art of painting itself. Picasso in the 1920s proceeds to deal with a much wider range of subjects: musicians, sex, women (portraits of girlfriends and wives) violence (bullfights) , war (Guernica), and themes taken from classical myths, most notably in his fine Series of etchings (Vollard Suite). read more

The exhibition focuses on specific themes, showing how Picasso’s imagery went through a constant process of metamorphosis. Printmaking, in particular, allows this fundamental aspect of his art to become vividly clear, since various stages in building a composition can be documented. read more