13. Pablo Picasso

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13. Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga in 1881, although he soon moved to Barcelona and later to France. A figure of great transcendence in the development of modern and contemporary art, he became an essential piece in the artistic revolution of the Vanguards.

José María Moreno Galván felt a real predilection for Picasso. They met in 1956 in Cannes, where Moreno Galván was sent by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Madrid to propose an exhibition that Picasso refused. But this meeting left a deep impression on José María.

This piece may have been a gift from the painter. It is a two-color silkscreen with female faces traced with classic forms, joined by a dove with an olive branch, symbol of peace, very recurrent in Picasso.

Moreno Galván wrote about the painter from Malaga in the magazine Triunfo:

"…was the man who revolutionized Western painting; the painter who broke all the artistic canons by which painting had been governed since the Renaissance. [...] Picasso, and everything he represents, banishes perspective, beauty as an ideal, the imitation of nature, and objectifies the work of art. A work is already valuable in itself, regardless of its representational value. The force that made all this pos sible is called Pablo Ruiz