Our visit to the well-air conditioned Pompidou continues.
The other temporary exhibition we visited was a Dora Maar retrospective. Dora Maar is most famous for her long, troubled relationship with Pablo Picasso. The retrospective covers that period of her artistic life, as well as earlier and later periods. Because we knew little about Dora Maar's life as a photographer and painter, we did not know what to expect. She was a talented artist who deserves to be famous for her own work instead of mostly being famous as Picasso's mistress. We enjoyed seeing the extensive collection of her work.
Dora Maar photographed Picasso's creation in 1937 of the famous painting Guernica. We were intrigued by how the painting evolved. Below are a few of the early photographs.
The finished Guernica appears below.
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| Guernica by Pablo Picasso (1937) |
Greg especially liked the still life pictured below. It reminded him of early cubist works and Paul Cézanne's still life paintings.
Thanks for again visiting the Pompidou with us. We hope you were cool and comfortable during the visit.
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