Course that will explain the links between Picasso and Catalan Romanesque art and will try to grasp the possible affinities between them.  So as to understand this relation, various experts will focus on two dates that marked this: in 1906, in a decisive moment regarding the transformation of his style, the artist settled for some months in the town of Gòsol, in the Catalan Pyrenees. Almost thirty years later, in 1934, he visited the collections of Romanesque art that today can be found in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, an event that was widely commented on in the Barcelona press of the time.

This course, in collaboration with the University of Barcelona, is organised around the exhibition Romanesque Picasso, which can be seen at the Museu Nacional from November 2016 to February 2017.

• From 28th September to 14th December 2016
• Wednesdays, from 10.00am to 12.00noon
• Sala Sert, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

PROGRAMME

28th September, from 10.00am to 12.00noon

About Picasso, bohemian, barbarism and medieval art (I)

Juan José Lahuerta, curator of the exhibition

5th October, from 10.00am to 12.00noon

About Picasso, bohemian, barbarism and medieval art (II)

Juan José Lahuerta, curator of the exhibition

19th October, from 10.00am to 12.00noon
The primitivisms as catalysts of the position of Picasso in the international avant-garde

Eduard Vallès, conservator of Modern Art at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

26th October, from 10.00am to 12.00noon
Reality, vestige and memory of the Romanesque art in the life and work of Picasso

Eduard Vallès, conservator of Modern Art at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

2nd November, from 10.00am to 12.00noon
About Picasso, bohemian, barbarism and medieval art (III)

Juan José Lahuerta, curator of the exhibition

9th November, from 10.00am to 12.00noon
Why did Romanesque art seduce modern art?

Daniel Rico, professor of History from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and member of the Institute of Medieval Studies

16th November, from 10.00am to 12.00noon
Romanesque and modernity

Gemma Ylla-Català, assistant of conservation of Romanesque art at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

23rd November, from 10.00am to 12.00noon
Miró, Picabia and the Romanesque

Martí Peran, professor of Art Theory from the University of Barcelona (UB).  Critic and curator of exhibitions

30th November, from 10.00am to 12.00noon
The nineteenth century image of Catalan Medieval heritage

Francesc Quílez, Coordinator of the Collections and Head of the Cabinet of Drawings and Engravings at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

14th  December, from 10.00am to 12.00noon
Picasso and Catalan Romanesque art (visit to the exhibition)

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