Curator Chris Stephens takes us on a tour of Tate's 2012 exhibition Picasso and Modern British Art and discusses Pablo Picasso's extensive legacy and influence on British art. This influence played an important role in the acceptance of modern art in Britain.
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Artist
Pablo Picasso
1881–1973
Artwork
The Three Dancers
Pablo Picasso
1925
Artwork
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair
Pablo Picasso
1932
Modernism
Modernism refers to a global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and values of modern industrial life. Building on late nineteenth-century precedents, artists around the world used new imagery, materials and techniques to create artworks that they felt better reflected the realities and hopes of modern societies.
Abstract art
Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead uses shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect
Cubism
Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted