Untold Story Of Pablo Picasso’s Life In A Small Village Called Gosol In Spain

In a cold day of June 1906, a guy named Pablo Picasso reached in an ancient village of Catalan, Gosol. A friend once told him about the wonders of mountain refuge which was intrigued Pablo, so he convinced his mistress, a former artist's model Fernande Oliver who has a great taste for perfumes to visit that place. They went to Gosol from Barcelona and spent a happy couple of weeks catching up with his old friends after traveling to the city by train from Paris.

Upon arriving at Gosol, the couple Picasso and Oliver took a room on the first floor in a tiny village inn called the Hostal cal Tampanada. Pablo Picasso's plan was to enjoy the pleasures of summer through painting and living a simple life. In Gosol, he changed the quality of his art in terms of drama and being profound. At the same year, Pablo Picasso had already experienced success in Paris, his 1901 Paris exhibition debut of the dealer Ambroise Vollard has gained a lot of positive review and compliments at that time.

Art historians ascribe special importance to Picasso's time in Gosol, because there, in self-imposed exile from the backbiting Parisian art world, he changed his art dramatically and profoundly. His sentimental and melancholic Blue and Rose period paintings, as brilliant as they were, it was still indebted to 19th-Century art movements such as Symbolism.

Also during his stay in Gasol, Pablo Picasso's art started to flourish which lasted around 10 weeks, he was remarkably prolific. According to BBC Art, he produced seven large paintings, a dozen medium-sized ones, and countless drawings, carvings, gouaches, and watercolors.

Pablo Picasso also experienced to alter his thoughts about a painting which he made a 12^th Century polychrome wooden Madonna along with strongly painted eyes and expressive white big face, something he saw in a church in Gosol. Pablo Picasso also made a 77 cm tall sculpture which was considered as an example of Catalan Romanesque art and kept by Barcelona's Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC), it features around 40 artworks in the Spanish Modernist as stated by NPG UK.

At Gosol Madonna, Pablo Picasso revealed his passion for painting a woman. This made the historians more aware of Picasso's art in interest with the Romanesque made him famous. A year after, he invented Cubism and tend to understand its value and importance in terms of its development.

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