My Right Sided Brain...: Kunsthaus Zurich

At the end of my ski-ing trip in Switzerland I was pleasantly surprised by my Dad telling me about a Picasso exhibition in Zurich, of which works have come from the world's most renowned collections! The timing was very convenient too as we were flying back to Manchester from Zurich, so it wasn't as opportunity to miss. It was such a massive art gallery, but the Picasso exhibition itself wasn't that big. It was just enough to keep me interested, and as an artist I'm interested in I looked at his paintings and drawings in fine detail, staring at every little section. It was also helpful listening to the handheld phone narration as it explained all about his 'Pink' & 'Blue' periods, his Cubism period and his lead onto Surrealism. He also painted many different portraits of his lover Marie-Therese Walter, and looking at the way his paintings progressed, it's interesting to see the sexual imagery involved in his work, and realizing that he really was obsessed with sex. I like the way he sees things differently, like at first, in one of his paintings that looked just like random cylinders of stone, it was actually a nude posing in a very erotic position with her bosoms erect.... As shown above ^^^
It was good to see his sculpture work as well as his drawings- (which also included a comic strip), and a few paintings which didn't seem Picasso style at all...

The rest of the art gallery was quite substantial in size, and what I was surprised about was how empty it was. I didn't realize how many famous artworks were in the gallery- like I didn't realize how well known this gallery was; and I'd never even heard about it! For example there were works by Klimt, Matisse, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Monet, Chagall, Dali, Breton and Giacommetti who I studied particularly close to at A-Level. In the end though it all got a bit too much, like all art galleries do- I get very tired from concentrating and trawling round an art gallery for 3 hours. But nevertheless, it was a particularly impressive art gallery, and I'm very glad I managed to visit it as part of my travels!