Pity and Terror. Picasso at War

The work of Pablo Picasso has been considered one of the most vitalist and categorical affirmations of modernity. The unpredictable volition of the free author, the public exhibition of the painter’s intimate sphere and the ascent over any prior historical model, including the historical avant-garde movements, contributed to strengthening the Promethean myth of the modern artist. This seminar, held in conjunction with the exhibition Pity and Terror. Picasso’s Path to Guernica at the Museo Reina Sofía, asserts that Picasso’s contemporary relevance, and modernity’s, does not respond to these obvious and recurring arguments; it responds on the contrary to the artist’s ability to connect with the meaning and experience of a time which distinguished a large part of the 20^th century.