Friday, August 19, 2011

Kimbell Art Museum: Picasso and Braque Exhibit























Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912, displays paintings and nearly all of the prints created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque during these two years of their artistic friendship.

During the years 1910 through 1912, these two great masters invented a new style of art now referred to as the Cubist Experiment.
 

The two friends would visit eachothers studio and compare work. Many of their pieces are very similar and most include ordinary objects in this new perspective. The exhibition includes paintings from a number of other distinguished collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Tate in London, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, and the Robert B. and Mercedes H. Eichholz Collection.

In an effort to draw a younger audience to this exhibit, curators have included iPads for use during the exhibit that visitors can compare and contract the various artwork. You may zoom in and out of the art work, adjust the lighting to see special details and even an electronic puzzle feature allowing student to re-assemble the artwork. Very Cool!

They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,
and worshiped and served created things
rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.
Romans 1:25

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