During April I took some time off to visit Barcelona. Well time off isn’t really the best way to describe the period between classes at university. In some ways it feels like university is permanently time off. Yet in other ways there is this always underlying stress or feeling that something should be happening and isn’t.
Anyway I went to Barcelona to see if I could make something happen. Since I’m doing an MA in art management I thought I would visit the city and see how they do it there. In the end they do it pretty well. I visited their contemporary arts museum and discovered Carlos Pazos. Very cool.
I also visited the Guell Park, the running sand looking cathedral, the olympic and some other places. The most moving, even to my jaded eyes, was the Picasso museum. I know Picasso well. I lived by his museum during my years in Paris and enjoyed a frequent visit. But the Barcelona Picasso museum houses his earlier works. The pieces that demonstrate his true genius.
Picasso proved he was capable of painting like the masters at a very young age. So when he said he dreamed of painting like he was five, it truly was because he has was such a talent that painting freely looks as if it was impossible to him. He spent his entire life wishing to paint like a child. I’ve painted like a child for the entirety of mine.
He is a master and I remain a child. The attached photo is a watercolor I did or tried to do of his Medinas. It was only in trying to duplicate his work that I realized how truly childish mine is.