Picasso Museum Málaga-a praise to women

A painter always has a father and a mother, does not come from nowhere. ”With these words, Farah Atassi is committed to her great role model Pablo Picasso. The formative influence of the Spanish painter on the work of the 1981 in Brussels – exactly a hundred years after this – born – and – like this once – in Paris with Syrian roots, is unmistakable. Powerful and clear contours, concentrated and pointed. With desire for color and cheerfulness, sensuality and pride. Her women present themselves confidently, flirted with the viewer. Partly lasciviously stretching, their stimuli not hidden, partly cheeky and provocative, but also seriously, sunk, read, brooding.

Everyone knows that women played a major role in Picasso’s life as a lover and as a muse as well as as a wife and housekeeper, as the force that was inspiration for him, but also gave freedom to work. The Picasso Museum in Málaga is reminiscent of an exposure opened last year, which this spring is two special exhibitions, who present a contemporary and a follow-up, whose work has many things in common with those of the most famous son of the Andalusian metropolis: Óscar Domínguez and Farah Atassi. Parallelities and continuities become visible.

But first to the show “The Unity of a Life’s Work” (the unity of a life’s work) dedicated to the great master. Well -known and less well -known paintings can be seen here. Impressed one stands in front of the monumental painting “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” from 1907, which heralded the era of cubism. It is not the southern French Avignon, but the Carrer D’Avinyó, a red light district in Barcelona, ​​whose brothels also visited the young Picasso. The four most important women can also be seen in his life. In 1917 he met the ballet dancer Olga Kohlova, who came from Russian nobility, whom he later married. “Madre y niño” (mother and child) shows her with the son Paolo, who was born as soon as. In contrast to the still naturalistic “three graces” (choice and agony of beautiful Paris), it is outlined in rough brush strokes: strong arms protecting the toddler. The father must have been very proud of the offspring, like testing several portraits of the boy, riding with white hat or on a donkey.

It is well known that Picasso was a macho and lust. The marriage to Olga ended abruptly when Maya, his illegitimate daughter with the French model Marie-Thérèse Walter, to experience here as a “woman in the dress with green collar”, banned on canvas in 1938. Then he had already tied up with Dora Maar, as a oil painting, which was created two years earlier, revealed “woman with the arms raised”. Olga and Dora are said to have beaten the favor of the master. The new one won the upper hand – until it was also dumped, 1943. Incomprehensible that two talented, even professionally successful women, one on stage, the other as photographer and painter, could be fooled. They may have delivered violent contradictions to the man, but pointless. It left him unimpressed in his glory.

On the other hand, he seems to have felt respect and perhaps even fear of these women. Dora Maar is shown with hair that is too mounted, fingers such as animal claws and a bad look. It is doubtful whether she was so happy about how she deconstructs on the portrait with cat in her physicality, especially her pretty face. Picasso has arrived in surrealism. Destructive style elements, also as an expression of the experienced horror of his time: the Franco Putsch, the murder in Spain with Germany’s weapons aid, prologue of the Second World War. The timeless anti -war picture per se, “Guernica”, was created at that time. Charge of the cowardly bombing of the German Legion Condor on the “Holy City of Basque” on April 26, 1937.

A little calmer, in stringent-geometric shapes and multi-perspective the portraits of the following women at his side. The 40 -year -old Marie Françoise Gilot, also a painter, died in New York in 2023, mother of the successful filmmaker Claude and his sister Paloma, who is no less successful as a designer, meet here as “Mujer en un sillón” (woman on a sofa). The last partner and second wife, Jacqueline Roque, 46 years younger than Picasso, who arose with her predecessor after his death in 1973, was most frequently portrayed by him, primarily on the side.

The Spanish avant -garde in the first half of the 20th century also belonged to Óscar Domínguez. The artist, born in Tenerife in 1906 and, like Picasso, is recognized on the upper floor of the Palacio de Buenavista in Malaga, the domicile of the Picasso Museum in Málaga, founded in 1997, where the work of Farah Atassi has also been admired in the past ten years, some in 2024.

Noise and break. Human, all -time, even the artists.

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Domínguez, who managed to escape to France in September 1936 thanks to the wrong papers and who joined the Wehrmacht into his exilland of the Résistance after the Wehrmacht invaded, is also shown in his changes from figurative to surrealistic visual language. Women are not missing in his work either, also as a proud, spirited, lively women such as “Madame”, which is like a whirlwind. His work has a lot of closeness to Salvador Dalí. And as with this and at Picasso, the bull appears as a popular subject. By the way: Picasso was close friends with Dalí until the eccentric and infamous for his sarcasm made fun of a painting by the native Andalusian. Noise and break. Human, all -round, also the large triumvirate of Spanish modernity.

If you stay in Málaga, you should stop by Picasso’s birthplace, not far from the museum. There is not only the authentic furniture and baptismal dress of the little Pablo, but also Picasso’s legendary “La Colombe”, the peace dust, designed for the world peace congress in Paris 1949. Strange, this historical drawing in the face of this historical drawing, the GDR children’s song “Little White Peace Daub” no longer went out of her way, especially since it is running in the streets of Old city of Malaga White pigeons in front of their feet and fluttering over their heads: “You should fly, peace dust, everyone says it here/ that we never want to get peace …”

»pablo picasso: The Unit of Life’s Worm« bis 30.1. 2028; »Oscar domínguez: Summer worldws« bis 2025; »farah Atsisi: genius loci« bis 2025; Paul-Picasso-Picanum, malaga, Tägl. 10 Bs 19 Uhr.