Pablo Picasso in the London National Gallery

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Exhibition of masterpieces of the famous painter of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso opens 26 feralya in the London National Gallery.

This is the first exhibition entirely devoted to the works of Picasso, in the history of the gallery, which specializes in European art. The exhibition features included about 60 works by artists from museums and private collections around the world - France, Spain, Switzerland, USA and others.

The main theme of the exhibition "Picasso: challenging the past" was the search for the origins of ideas and subjects, the artist's paintings in the works of old European masters - Velasquez, Rembrandt and Goya - and their immediate predecessors, the Impressionists - Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh and others.

"Picasso has transformed the art of the past into something different by creating their own bold paintings. Sometimes it is" quotes "from the past were straight, sometimes more allusive and sometimes full of parody and irreverence," - told the curators of the exhibition.

Many of the works of artists, of which Picasso drew inspiration and who tried to rethink, in accordance with the new tradition in visual art, visitors will be able to see in the main exhibition of the National Gallery.

"The exhibition visitors will be able to rediscover the collection of the gallery and see her transformation in the eyes of Picasso" - explains the curators.

The exhibition "Picasso: challenging the past will work in the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square until June 7 this year.

To celebrate the opening of a large exhibition building of the gallery was a kind of "frame" for paintings by Picasso. During the evening on the facade of the building projecting reproductions of the artist, staining the walls and columns in different colors and attracting the attention of passers-by and visitors to the exhibition.