Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Head of a Young Man (Tête de jeune homme), 1923. Grease crayon on pink Michallet laid paper, 241/2 x 185/8 in. (62.2 x 47.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Carll H. de Silver Fund, 39.18. © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
European works on paper at Brooklyn Museum Showcasing the breadth of the Brooklyn Museum’s exceptional works on paper collection, ‘Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper’ highlights more than one hundred European prints and drawings. On view June 21–October 13, 2019.]]>
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‘Rembrandt to Picasso’ pairs masterworks by renowned artists such as William Blake, Albrecht Dürer, Francisco Goya, and Vincent van Gogh with lesser known, rarely seen drawings, prints, and watercolors. Works on view feature intimate portraits, biting social satire, fantastical visions, vivid landscapes, and more, and are organized into four broad chronological sections spanning the early sixteenth through the early twentieth centuries.
The exhibition is presented in conjunction with “One: Titus Kaphar”, which examines and recasts the individuals and histories that are often marginalized throughout Western art. This strategic pairing is part of the Brooklyn Museum’s focused commitment to presenting exhibitions that challenge how history is told through art, and to confronting the biases traditionally engrained in these narratives. In an effort to encourage further conversation between the two exhibitions, commentary and reflections by Kaphar will accompany selected works on paper in Rembrandt to Picasso, helping to shift the viewer’s gaze and to question who had a voice in the past—and who has a voice in the present.
“There is an intimacy and immediacy to works on paper that seems to bring us nearest to an artist’s vision and process,” explains Lisa Small, Senior Curator, European Art, Brooklyn Museum. “I’m thrilled for our audiences to have closelooking encounters with these highlights from Brooklyn’s extensive collection of European works on paper, which are rarely exhibited because of light-sensitivity. These prints and drawings are examples of extraordinary technical achievement and vivid artistic experimentation, but they also offer an opportunity to explore compelling and provocative themes that continue to resonate today.”
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