Picasso. L'homme aux mille masques. Gréco-romain The event acted as a

The event acted as a detonator and triggered a metamorphosis of taste in Europe

beyond the formal repetition of iconographic models and without stopping at strict typologies of gestures and postures

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beneath what our eyes see

Picasso. L'homme aux mille masques. Gréco-romain The event acted as aOn the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Picasso's birth, a powerful dialogue between primitive art and the creations of the major 20th century artist. An extraordinary confrontation: Picasso's art illuminated by masterpieces from pre Columbian America, Africa, and Mediterranean Antiquity, from the Barbier Mueller Museums in Barcelona and Geneva. An Iberian stone head, dating from the 4th 3rd century BC, which inspired a wooden head sculpted by the