Seeing Picasso

Seeing Picasso: Maker of the Modern focuses on the artist's many innovations and protean practice. Ceaselessly creating art for over seven decades, Picasso shattered artistic conventions in the pursuit of revolutionary styles and formal strategies. This exhibition, spanning the late 1890s to the early 1970s, highlights Picasso's key breakthrough moments, which catalysed a number of artistic movements and styles of the modern era. It showcases over thirty-five masterpieces in a range of media-paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and ceramics-from each stage of Picasso's highly prolific career, including his early Blue Period, reinterpretations of African and Oceanic forms, ground-breaking invention of Cubism, and experimentation with Surrealism and early Neo-Expressionism. Seeing Picasso: Maker of the Modern reveals that Picasso-perhaps more than any artist-not only channelled the zeitgeist of the 20th century but also significantly altered the course of modern art.