Ali Banisadr: Contemporary Thoughts on Picasso
Join painter Ali Banisadr in conversation Kenneth Brummel, AGO associate curator of modern art, about Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period paintings of 1901-1904. How does Picasso’s Blue Period resonate with contemporary painters today? How do we as contemporary viewers interpret Picasso’s use of colour and form to address the social problems of his time? These and other issues will be explored by Banisadr and Brummel. Presented as part of Picasso: Painting the Blue Period
Close Looking: Picasso Creative Audio Description
Join Assistant Curator of Community Programs, Melissa Smith, as she shares an audio description of an artwork, one of the techniques used during our Multisensory Program to help remove barriers to our collections. You will hear and learn about creative audio description, a type of spoken language describing visual images or objects, which enables audiences to engage and pursue their own journey in relation to visual art.
Picasso, Women, and Feminism
Join art historian Elizabeth Legge, artist Ilene Sova and AGO Associate Curator of modern art Kenneth Brummel for a conversation exploring Picasso’s complex relationships with the women in his art and life. This conversation will uncover the everlasting effect of Picasso’s influence on painters and consider why artists continually return to dialogue with his work. Presented as part of Picasso: Painting the Blue Period
Picasso: Curator's Talk
Join Kenneth Brummel, AGO Associate Curator of modern art, for a talk exploring Picasso during the Blue Period, one of the most celebrated episodes of the artist’s career and of 20th-century modernism. Absorbing the artistic lessons of the French avant-garde during his second visit to Paris in 1901 before confronting the social and political climate of an economically struggling Barcelona in 1902-1904, Picasso, during this formative stage of his artistic development, created paintings, sculptures and works on paper that captured and probed modern life and its many discontents.
Annual Passholders' Access: Picasso: Painting the Blue Period
AGO Annual Passholders are invited to join at our exclusive Members’ Access for Picasso: Painting the Blue Period.
Come experience the exhibition that tells the story of how Picasso, then a fledgling painter in his late teens and early twenties, formulated his signature Blue Period style as he moved back and forth between Paris and Barcelona. Book your timed-entry tickets today after this long wait!
Picasso: Painting the Blue Period
1. Introduction: Kenneth Brummel