Pablo Picasso

Name: Pablo Picasso
Brand: Sainsbury Centre

Sainsbury Centre

Pablo PicassoThe Legacy of Youth\nAuthor(s): Paul Greenhalgh, Michael Cary, Llus Bosch\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Sainsbury Centre, United Kingdom\nImprint: Sainsbury Centre\nISBN-13: 9781916133693, 978-1916133693\nSynopsis\nThis book reveals that Pablo Picasso wasn't simply a figurehead of the Modern Age. He grew up in the 19th century: the extraordinary mixture of values that was fin de sicle Europe penetrated deep into his personality, remaining with him through his life. While he was the quintessential Modern in so many ways, he was also a Victorian, and this duality explains the complexity of his genius. He was simultaneously looking forwards and backwards, and feeding off the efforts of others, before developing his own idioms for depicting the contemporary world.\n\nThe young artist recognised that society was increasingly in a process of transformation, not in a transitory or temporary way, but permanently, under the inexorable pressures of modernisation. He realised that.