🎨Local Art Appreciation: Pablo Picasso Glass Portrait Exhibition

✨ To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death, the Hong Kong University Art Gallery held the "Pablo Picasso: Glass Portraits" exhibition, displaying Picasso's glass works created between 1954 and 1957. ✨ This is a little-known artistic creation of Picasso, showing his exploration of artistic mediums in his later years, similar to the paper cutouts of Matisse's later years. There are few documents and books mentioning these glass portraits, and exhibitions of the same type are also rare. There are no more than 50 Picasso glass paintings in existence. This exhibition brings together 19 of them, all from private collections. It is the first large-scale exhibition in 20 years since the four exhibitions in Japan in 1998. ✨ The exhibits cover Picasso's creative styles in different periods, and most of them have original oil paintings, which must be the author's favorite works. Through the luminous light box, Picasso used glass pieces as brushstrokes, stacking them layer by layer to form exquisite glass paintings (gemmaux). Compared with ordinary paintings, such creations are more three-dimensional, and it seems that one can see the author's brushstroke process and his interpretation of the world's characters through colored glass fragments of different sizes. ✨ The first floor of the exhibition hall displays Picasso's self-portraits and the women around him. The curator tried to use Picasso's rich emotional undertones to express the author's artistic life. The second floor displays a group of still life sketches, which show the progress of Picasso's artistic creation from classical to modern. I cannot describe the feeling of seeing these works in person. Whether it is the macroscopic women, pigeons, flowers and fruits, or the microscopic fragments, particles, and bubbles, they all present an ever-changing state. No matter how good the camera is, it cannot record what the eyes see. Only by being there in person can you feel it. 📍Address: Hong Kong University Art Museum, 90 Bonham Road, Mid-Levels, Central and Western District, Hong Kong 📌Exhibition hall: 1/F and 2/F, Fung Ping Shan Building 💵Cost: Free #Sign up for a hotel tester #Weekend trip #Hong Kong good places #Hong Kong check-in #Art