PASSIONATE ARTISTS
I really am undecided how I felt about the Picasso/Giacometti exhibition. The one very special point was my friend from Finland was here for a few days and she wanted to visit the new museum. Renovated would perhaps be a better word.
Picasso was younger than Giacometti - in fact 20 years younger. I don’t know if they were close during the years that they saw one another. For that matter, no-one seems to know too much about their relationship. We do know that they discussed their work in the context of post war arguments around the return to realism. There has been new research done but somehow I don’t find it very satisfactory. Their sculpture was shown together - but it didn’t seem to have much relationship even if we did see much more of both the artists’ work Giacometti Grande Femme - 1958 Picasso : La Femme Enceinte: deuxième état. 1950-1959 Giacometti :Tête de la mère - around 1925 Giacometti : Tête du père - 1927-30 Giacometti : Femme cu