The last great proposal of the 1973-2023 Picasso Celebration brings to the Reina Sofia an exhibition of theses on the year in which art swung into the abyss.
Neither epilogue of the pink period, nor prologue to the fracture of Las señoritas d'Avignon (1907). The year 1906 would be an artistic phase in itself, the moment in which everything seems to fit in Picasso. Primitive art in all its forms, classical mythology, fascination with Romanesque art, homoerotic clichés and popular culture at the beginning of the 20th century, El Greco, the abandonment of Bohemia and the entry into the circle of Gertrude Stein, whom he met that same year.
All these factors influence "Picasso's first definition of modern art, which is based on the body and transculturality," explains its curator, Eugenio Carmona, professor of history at the University of Malaga and one of the greatest experts on the Malaga painter, in one of the rooms dedicated to the exhibition at the Reina Sofia.
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