Picasso’s Modernity 

This session will explore Pablo Picasso’s career and its key phases. Comparing specific works in the exhibition Picasso. Figures to some of his other masterworks, this class will trace his trajectory as an artist, his responses to other artists of his generation, and his reactions to the traumatic political and social changes of his era.

The Picasso Effect 

This class will focus on the long shadow Picasso cast on the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Participants will consider the effect of his work and personality on futurism, surrealism, and other movements. They will also discuss his mythic status among many artists and intellectuals, and they will consider individuals who have challenged this legacy and forged alternative paths during the modern era.