{"id":122265,"date":"2017-10-09T01:53:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T05:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=122265"},"modified":"2025-01-12T02:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T07:12:18","slug":"french-president-inaugurates-major-picasso-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/09\/french-president-inaugurates-major-picasso-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"French president inaugurates major Picasso exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PARIS \u2014 French President Emmanuel Macron has inaugurated a major Picasso exhibition in Paris, focusing on one key year in the Spanish master’s art and life.<\/p>\n

After visiting the show for an hour and a half with his wife Brigitte, Macron said he likes in Picasso’s paintings a \u201cgreat sensuality\u201d and at the same time a \u201cpolitical meaning\u201d especially in the years leading up to World War II.<\/p>\n

The \u201cPicasso 1932. Erotic Year\u201d show displays many portraits of Picasso mistress Marie-Therese Walter, including a famous masterpiece, \u201cThe Dream,\u201d and a \u201cGirl Before a Mirror,\u201d a treasure of the Museum of Modern Art in New York that rarely travels.<\/p>\n

Macron, an art and literature lover, enjoyed the visit in the presence of members of Picasso’s family, including Maya Widmaier-Picasso, the daughter the master had with Walter.<\/p>\n

The exhibition displays colorful, surreal paintings inspired by Picasso’s young lover, but also many documents, archives and photos.<\/p>\n

Macron noted Picasso could \u201clive up to three or four lives at the same time,\u201d sharing his time between his wife, Olga Khokhlova, and his mistress, \u201cwhich wasn’t going without some kind of violence for everyone.<\/p>\n

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Macron said he has a very strong personal memory of discovering Picasso’s paintings for the first time in a museum in his hometown of Amiens in northern France, at the age of 12 or 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you that for the young teenager I was … this was an event. I do remember it very well. I was moved, hit,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n

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Macron said that it would be \u201cgreat\u201d if a Picasso painting could be displayed at the Elysee presidential palace.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like, indeed, open the Elysee to modern, contemporary painters and other artists.<\/p>\n

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This is a project,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The curator of the exhibition, Laurence Madeline, said that 1932 was \u201cdecisive\u201d for Picasso who turned 51 that year \u2014 \u201can important moment in the middle of his existence, and the year of his first retrospective including 30 years of artwork since his youth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition \u201cPicasso 1932. Erotic Year\u201d at the Picasso National Museum in Paris runs from Oct. 10 to Feb. 11.<\/p>\n

It is then scheduled to open at the Tate Modern in London, which co-organized the show, from March 8 to Sept. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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