Life is art. There are few artists for whom that’s more true than for Picasso. You can chart the ups and downs of his romances through his canvases — and establish overlapping timelines; you can assess his emotional state; you can estimate his affluence (consistently increasing) or the size of the space he’s working in (ditto). Even his interior scenes function as a kind of self-portrait.
It’s interior spaces that form the backbone of the forthcoming exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI), “Picasso: From the Studio.” Curated with the Musée Picasso in Paris, with a large number of loans from that elegant institution, it takes a chronological journey through the Spanish artist’s career, via the key locations in France in which he worked.
