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...George Steer, a reporter for the London Times, filed a story the next day; soon news of the massacre had reached Paris. There, the Spanish painter Picasso was preparing a monumental commission for his native country's pavilion at the 1937 International Exhibition of Arts and Sciences. The outraged artist, never particularly passionate about politics, threw aside his planned work The Studio: the Painter and his Model, and began to create his masterpiece, a monochrome scream of pain and horror...
...Beside him as he worked was a 29-year-old photographer, Dora Maar, herself an artist of some renown and a member of the Surrealist group. She and the 55-year-old Picasso had met 18 months earlier and become lovers; but they also met as artists. "You feel," says the director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Gerard Vaughan, "that of all the women in his life, Picasso treated her as an intellectual equal." There was collaboration and cross-pollination as Picasso absorbed and experimented with Maar's photographic techniques and she embraced painting
...hint at its end. Maar was the primary model for the Weeping Woman series, eyes like basins pouring their tears for the misery of a world at war. Yet the viewer absorbs the impression that her highly strung temperament, as much as her physical substance, is sitting for the artist...
...artworks born of it, the 350 works on display here capture the fecundity of Picasso, and give an insight into the mechanics of genius. Here are the studies obsessively reworking an idea or theme, many of them threading though the painter's long life: classical mythology; the artist as minotaur or faun; the savage beauty of the bullfight. The same subject is painted over and over, and because Picasso dated his works precisely, the astonished visitor understands that half a wall of work is the output of just one day. There is lyrical beauty, puzzling abstraction, wit and color...
...have been sound insulated and all spa telephones are located in a soundproof room). When your session is done, you can relax in the tea lounge, bask on the sun terrace or pad around in your Frette robe admiring the artwork, which includes an installation by New York video artist Monika Bravo...