A study day organized at the Museu Picasso de Barcelona around the exhibit Romanesque Picasso, that can be viewed at our museum until the 26^th of February 2017, and that explains the relation between Picasso and the Catalan Romanesque art, trying to understand the possible affinities.

A few specialists put the spotlight on the two key dates that marked this relationship: 1906, in a deciding moment of transformation of his style, the artist moved for a few months to the village of Gósol, in the Catalan Pyrenees. And 1934, when he visit the Romanesque art collection of what today is the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, an event widely covered by the newspapers of the Barcelona of the time.

Program:

• 9.30 to 10h - Welcome and presentation, by Emmanuel Guigon, director of Museu Picasso de Barcelona
• 10h to 10.45 h - Sobre Picasso, bohèmia, barbàrie i art medieval by Juan José Lahuerta (curator of the exhibition)
• 10.45 to 11.30h – Lo que Picasso sí vio. Figuras sembradas de ojos y los ojos desplazados by Victòria Cirlot
• 11.30 to 12h - Pause
• 12 to 12.45h - Realitat i vestigi d’una Edat Mitjana picassiana, by Eduard Vallès, Modern Art curator and contemporary of the Museu Nacional
• 12.45 to 13.30h - La modernitat del romànic, by Daniel Rico, professor of Art History of the UAB
• 13.30 to 14.30h – Round table and debate. Moderated by Juan José Lahuerta
• 17h – Guided visit to the exhibit Romanesque Picasso, at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

Co-organized event with the Museu Picasso de Barcelona