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Wynwood Welcomes Picasso

Wilson Sayre
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Wynwood is known for its world-renowned street art, but this month it has also been the temporary home of influential museum art in the form of etchings from Pablo Picasso in a show called La Tauromaquia.

Hanging inside the Bakehouse Art Complex, the 26 pieces look like black and white watercolor paintings—they’re actually etchings printed on paper—and depict a scene from a bullfight.

Despite their abstract simplicity, you can fill in the action: One depicts a matador sitting in his seat taunting a bull with a cape, another shows horses dragging the defeated bull out of the arena.

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But these pieces look very different from the Picassos generally printed in art history books or on posters, in part because they’re from later in Picasso’s career. The series, completed in 1957, is absent  Picasso’s signature. Instead each has a bull’s head embossed in the bottom right corner.

“Artists are creative people; they’re never satisfied,” said Marte Siebenhar, executive director of the Bakehouse, speaking of the artist's different style in the work. “I think it just gives you another window onto how a master really approaches a long career.”

Encouraging artists to push their own work is in part what the Bakehouse tries to do. It provides studio spaces to roughly 60 artists and offers exhibition opportunities and educational programming to help further their careers.

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  The Picassos are on loan from the Bank of America corporate art collection. Its Art in Our Communities program loans work or full exhibitions to local museums and nonprofits.

The show will be up until Wednesday evening.  The Bakehouse is at 561 NW 32nd St.

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