Palm Beach Art, International Art News

From January 28 to July 1, 2012 – ARKEN Museum of Modern Art
With 135 works THE ESSENCE OF COLOUR is the biggest exhibition to date of H.M. the Queen’s art. At the exhibition we enter a personal universe and follow the Queen’s artistic development over 35 years. The subjects range from the close surroundings through imaginary landscapes to the most recent depictions of radiantly coloured rocks and bones.

Nature – both idyllic and dangerous – is a central subject for the Queen. The colours in the Queen’s art express the essence of a spirit. They evoke emotions and states of mind where words are not enough. The works in the exhibition range wide, from gentle watercolours through expressive paintings to imaginative découpages. In the découpages she has recomposed cuttings from art sale catalogues and magazines into new, magical worlds where anything can happen. We encounter both the humour and seriousness of the artist Queen Margrethe II.

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Until the 29th of  May 2011 – Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
A new world opened up for the nineteen-year-old Pablo Picasso when he arrived in Paris in 1900. In this city, the cultural centre of the avant-garde, he first saw the work of artists such as Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Steinlen with his own eyes. In developing his own style the young Spaniard eagerly absorbed the discoveries and ideas of both his contemporaries and predecessors.|
Pablo Picasso, Self-Portrait with Palette, 1906, Philadelphia Museum of Art, A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1950. C/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2010

With pioneering works such as Melancholy woman (1901, Detroit Institute of Arts) from his melancholy Blue Period and the famous Self-portrait with a palette (1906, Philadelphia Museum of Art) from his Pink Period, he paved the way for Cubism, which would forever change the course of twentieth-century painting. His atelier was a meeting place for painters, sculptors, writers, collectors and art-dealers, all attracted by the dynamic personality and revolutionary art of the young Picasso.

The exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum traces Picasso’s artistic development from his arrival in Paris until 1907, when he had grown into a leading figure of the French avant-garde.

Picasso in Paris, 1900-1907 was put together by guest curator Marilyn McCully, working together with the Van Gogh Museum and the Museu Picasso in Barcelona.

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