Art Lecture: Becoming Picasso

Becoming Picasso: 1881 to 1918 - with Professor Thomas Germano

This visual lecture looks at the early years of the life of Pablo Picasso.  At nineteen he had his debut exhibition with the influential dealer Ambroise Vollard. The early, lesser known works show the young painter transforming the styles and subjects of major modern artists such as Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Cezanne. Within the first decade of the 20th century, Picasso not only created his Blue Period, but introduced a Rose Period, Iberian and African influenced paintings and Cubism.