Teachers`Notes - Ajuntament de Barcelona

PICASSO AND BARCELONA
Gallery visit for schools, ages 6 to 18
Teachers’Notes
Presentation
On this visit we will look at the places that bear witness to Picasso’s time in Barcelona
– the city where he trained to be an artist.
From 1895, when he arrived with his family, to 1904, the year he finally left for Paris,
Picasso received his artistic education, mainly in Barcelona. The Llotja art school, and
the intellectual contacts he made at the Quatre Gats, forged a new artist who, freed
from academic restraints, was to fully flower in Paris.
After leaving, he never lost contact with Barcelona, due to his family staying in the
city, and his close relationship with Jaume Sabartés, his friend and personal secretary.
This close contact meant that today Barcelona has the only Picasso Museum in the
world that was created with the personal involvement of the artist.
Educational objectives of the visit
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Visit
To investigate and position the figure of Picasso in relation to the city of
Barcelona, with special reference to his artistic education in the city.
To identify the places in Barcelona where Picasso stayed.
To find out about academic training in general and, more specifically, the
training Picasso had at the Llotja art school, comparing works done in an
academic context with those done more freely.
To determine the influence of the Quatre Gats in Picasso’s work, as well as the
formal changes that his work began to display
To learn about the origins of the Barcelona Picasso Museum and the roles
played in its establishment by Picasso’s family and his personal secretary,
Jaume Sabartés.
to the permanent collection
Portraits of
Picasso’s parents
(1896)
- Picasso’s childhood: Malaga, La Coruña
and Barcelona
- The Ruiz Picasso family move to
Barcelona
- Ciutat Vella, the Barcelona of Picasso
- 20th century Barcelona. A city in
transformation
- Barcelona through the eyes of an art
student
The Beach at Barceloneta
(1896)
- Picasso’s formal training at the Llotja art
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school
- Description of academic teaching
- Mastery of line
Science and Charity
(1897)
- The intellectual context of the Quatre
Gats
- Parisian echoes in Casas and Rusiñol
- Innovations in Picasso’s work: from line
to colour
Menu for Els Quatre Gats (1900)
Barcelona Roof-tops (1902)
El paseo de Colón (1917)*
- The city from the artist’s studio
- The blue period, the expressive use of
colour: reaction against miserabilism, the
personal feelings of the artist, the
seriousness of art...
- Cubism: geometric examination of
shapes and breaking away from lineal
perspective
- His stay in Barcelona in 1917 with the
Russian Ballet
- The beginnings of the Barcelona Picasso
Museum
- Jaume Sabartés, crucial figure in the
setting up of the Picasso Museum
Portrait of Jaume Sabartés with
Ruff and Hat (1939)
* Ages 12 to 18 only
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