A Member’s Field Guide to Picasso in Fontainebleau
In the summer of 1921, Pablo Picasso left Paris for the countryside of Fontainebleau, where he set up a makeshift studio in the garage of his family’s rented villa and produced an astonishing body of work. Explore these productive three months through words, images, and more.
About Pablo Picasso
Throughout his nearly 80-year career, Pablo Picasso’s creative output was guided by two central principles: his openness to a diverse range of styles, subject matters, and mediums, and his resistance to the notion that change in art corresponds to improvement or progress. “Variation does not mean evolution,” he said. Even though during his life Picasso’s work was heralded as representative of specific artistic movements, such as Cubism, Classicism, and Surrealism, the artist actively embraced the potential for continuous regeneration and mutability.
