Picasso and the Women: History of a passion in an exhibition in Jesolo – Venice

Venezia – In many of his works, fragmented, distorted or simply reworked expressions of a complex perception of love, desire, suffering are represented.
The female figures have always penetrated the private life and artistic production of Pablo Picasso. Despite his innovative and sometimes iconoclastic artistic treatment, the relationships of the Malaga painter with the female universe are sometimes characterized by dynamics of power and possessiveness, which reveals a tension between the admiration of the master for femininity and a sometimes conflicting relationship with the same.
More revealing is an exhibition entitled Loving PicassoExpect from April 19 to October 12 in Jusolo in the rooms of the JMuseo.
Much more than women, indeed real muses, Fernande Olivier, Dora Maar, Marie-Térèse Walter and Jacqueline Roque have a significant impact on her art, often immortalized in the same works that become symbols of different stages of his creative development.

For the cubist master, women were not only a source of aesthetic inspiration, but also the subject of an intense psychological and symbolic exploration. After this common thread, the exposure by Piernicola Maria di Iorio will be divided into four sections that reflect the graphic series of Picasso. To enrich the path, the works of Dora Maar, a photographer and a surreal painter who was the artist’s partner during the dark years of the war, presented by drawings, oils, watercolors and engraved photos, to explore creative dialogue and mutual influence between the two. The refined lithographs of Françoise Gilot, the only woman who had the courage to leave Picasso, testimony an artist who is able to confirm his creative independence, will not be missing en route, converting the master’s influence into a personal and original language.

The portraits made in 1948 by Robert Capa will finally show the public an adult Picasso, but energetically on the French Riviera, revealing how the female presence was for him, was not only existential experience, but an authentic creative engine in a series of mutual influences that the exhibition wants to bring to light.