I blue? The Blue Room (The Tub), Picasso, 1901. Looks At Degas
Art Institute, through Sept. 12 At the turn of the 20th century,
Pablo Picasso had finished his academic training and was at the
very beginning of his lengthy and celebrated career. While
living in Barcelona at the time, he was influenced by its
Modernist milieu and by one of the city’s most prominent
artists, Santiago Rusiñol. The exhibition Picasso vs. Rusiñol,
currently on display at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, is a
fascinating study of Picasso’s relationship to Rusiñol, which
began with admiration and ended with irreverence after the
younger artist moved to Paris in 1904. Similarly, the exhibition
Picasso Looks At Degas explores Picasso’s fascination with an
older artist; however, the exhibition makes clear that even
though Picasso most likely never actually met Edgar Degas, the
French artist was an extremely influential figure throughout
Picasso’s career. While Rusiñol was only important to Picasso’s
very early career, these two exhibitio