Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Behind-the-scenes Tour with the Director

Learn more about the exhibition Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art on view at the Met April 27, 2010 - August 1, 2010: tinyurl.com/MetPicasso
This landmark exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 - 1973) in the Museum's collection. It features three hundred works, including the Museum's complete holdings of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and ceramics by Picasso-never before seen in their entirety-as well as a selection of the artist's prints. The Museum's collection reflects the full breadth of the artist's multi-sided genius as it asserted itself over the course of his long and influential career.
Notable for its remarkable constellation of early figure paintings, which include the commanding At the Lapin Agile (1905) and the iconic portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906), the Museum's collection also stands apart for its exceptional cache of drawings, which remain relatively little known, despite their importance and number. The key subjects that variously sustained Picasso's interest-the pensive harlequins of his Blue and Rose periods, the faceted figures and tabletop still lifes of his cubist years, the monumental heads and classicizing bathers of the 1920s, the raging bulls and dreaming nudes of the 1930s, and the rakish cavaliers and musketeers of his final years-are amply represented by works ranging in date from a dashing self-portrait of 1900 (Self-Portrait "Yo") to the fanciful Standing Nude and Seated Musketeer painted nearly seventy years later.
The exhibition and the catalogue are made possible by the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation.
Producer and Director: Christopher Noey
Camera: Wayne de la Roche, Jessica Glass
Editor: Kate Farrell
Sound Recording: David Raymond
Production Assistant: Stephanie Wuertz

[@NormaAtara]

Picasso is my inspiration. wonderful Artist he live for ever.

[@prakashdayanandan3176]

Im watching this in 2019 and its still fascinating listening to his thought process

[@auroraboreal1868]

😂😂😂😂

[@eivomtv1846]

Aurora Boreal lol

[@margaretfarquhar9567]

My dearest wish is to visit again the Metropolitan Museum When I was young and in Nice, we were looking everywhere for Picasso I enjoyed very much your insightful talk

[@jennyhughes4474]

I liked how they brought up & showed his influences, what he 'stole'. A lovely little tour & AMAZING work, thank you.

[@angelieavenie5741]

Thank you for the in-depth analysis & insights into Picasso's works. Interesting to learn about the artistic influences & inspirations help me understand his evolving styles. I thoroughly enjoyed & learned a lot. Picasso knows how to commercialize his art.

[@JimCincinnati]

I could listen to Gary T all day. What a treat this is.

[@keatsgipsy]

Thank you What a pleasure to see and enjoy, thank you for posting!

[@justanotherhappyhumanist8832]

I wish I could visit! What a wonderful collection.

[@RajiveDey]

That's awesome...I too show my creativity with my paintings always

[@artmilenio1]

amazing thing I ever seem all diferents culture toguether I so happy . I was there last week it just great !!!!!!!! thank you

[@brannonmcclure2786]

Thank you.

[@JaxonWalker-]

This is great.

[@cindymiller2928]

Love , would love to see.

[@pjlewisful]

fantastic!

[@kimsinza]

Nice video Thank you

[@MuseumNerd]

This goes in the MNTV Favorites! ;)

[@Scrapingthebottom]

I'm in awe of Picasso

[@nickfanzo]

Scrapingthebottom we all should be.

[@deadbored17]

Normally I find art history boring but i really like how the Director explained the works and made picasso seem like a human with a bit of cheek... well for me anyway.

[@johnbeesales1164]

Well curated, the new gems intoduced to us by way of overpainted subjects, the cross references and more...this is a very good video.

[@gavinyates9189]

Love you Picasso

[@julieholland2165]

I liked listening to Gary, he has a nice way about him.

[@nenadmarincic7716]

Magnifica coleccion... .en Metropolitan....N.Y., .. Picasso,... .obras de . dimension infinita

[@59farshad]

The Legend *******

[@ClaudyArfaras]

Wow!

[@Fkorn]

Super!

[@nickfanzo]

A creative juggernaut.

[@angeladallimore8079]

Superb

[@allielaurienorman1026]

In the winter of 1980 I went on a tour of the Metropolitan museum and one of the artists on display was a recluse who made detailed Shadow boxes of art of Everyday life in America. Do you have the records of the artists who were on display back then ?

[@1123581321enter]

@cosg9531 how many have you seen?

[@hoosomio]

Picasso 🇪🇦 te amo

[@jairovanegas8856]

One of The Immortals...

[@gachitadamunga2403]

Outrageous stuff that. Wish I could have made it.

[@jakeschimmel2583]

Gachitadamunga i wish i couldn't make it!!!!! www.thestarsholdushostage.com

[@mantiscave5900]

A genius.

[@etienne7774]

God blessed Picasso with the best, unrivaled, artistic Gift ever. Most talented painter in history. Michelangelo comes in at second. Just a pity that both missed God who blessed them with these God given gifts. Same with Freddy Mercury.

[@GraffbyJL]

why is picasso to you better than michaelangelo? do you think there could become a new modern artist even better than the masters?

[@Garramedia]

@bigbono12 I completely agree, bigbono, try to see Francis Bacon or David Hockney talking about art an you'll see what difference!

[@bigbono12]

@Garramedia Thank you. You are one of the few who seems to understand. We are living in a cultural wasteland and those who are the custodians of our heritage are as blind and unknowledeable as those they shoud be teaching. When and after the boom falls (WW3) there will be a great deal of teaching to do among other things (!).

[@sunduskurtulus1202]

❤🙏

[@mariocosi6680]

Amazing video. Please watch king David by michangelo. If u like it please share it. U never saw anything like it. Nothing more amazing In the history of art.u need to watch it 2 times

[@MusicRocksYou]

I WENT HERE TODAY

[@terrelllewis7508]

I had a copy of Picasso's: "The Lovers". .... Marsha.

[@mrk6644]

Check out derlagos

[@SynnJynn]

Only 12 min :c

[@francismadrazomartinez677]

Grande Picasso, altro che, pura matematica e geometria, Pi=fi, così, a caso.

[@Drezzedtokill]

I got to see this at Met ...my ex ditched me that day for his friends

[@walternikkarev5946]

Что бы понять искусство 20 в., надо смотреть Пикассо.

[@ezragonzalez8936]

Picasso was a master of imaginary he copied and borrowed or if you want to be critical stole ideas and techniques which he made his own in a masterful way he was the Willie Nelson of Modern art! just look at any Picasso work from the most primitive brutalist style to his neo classical the colors shapes curves every single stroke this man made was perfectly in harmony with the image and feeling he wanted to convey every one of his works is like a moment and his feelings frozen in time. I remember when I was a kid I hated modern art and Picasso I just did not understand it used to think any 5 year old could paint that! its all so deceivingly simple yet it would take many lifetimes just to master only of his periods..on the other hand Bacon, Rothko .and Pollock are still a challenge to my understanding and appreciation ..

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[@PaulSwagen]

Paul Swagen

[@jacekpokrak9258]

Regards for all lovers of Compmaturism Jacek Pokrak

[@hd-xc2lz]

Passing over synthetic cubism and collage to get to the neoclassical??

[@keepcalmycarryon]

Do you move your lips when you type?

[@nickfanzo]

the minotaur

[@anthonykatsipis6859]

Nicholas Fanzo

[@keepcalmycarryon]

What colour is your hair?

[@TrevorTSmith]

I always feel that art historians try to explain a painting more than what it actually is

[@nickfanzo]

It's perception

[@happystations]

İrem Çamlıca - Uyuyan Güzel / Sleeping Beauty (Picasso) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJ27YXqQq7CLicU

[@raymondlawson8914]

There can be only one picasso

[@bigbono12]

@Ozzrya91 Most art historians like most musicologists are people who really wanted to be artists but didn't have the talent/ courage. They spend their lives surrounded by art but are really outside of it. They see the works as documents or technical processes or as wealth/possessions. It really is a shame. Art has within itself many of the hidden and secret meanings of life and of ourselves (our minds). But really only artists can see this and they talk through art (another world completely).

[@jamesanonymous2343]

a truly dull 12:25,,,,,,,,can it !

[@crystallira1528]

"Standing female nude" is a landscape drawing turned sideways.

[@keepcalmycarryon]

Pretty "true-y" for an opinion, Philistine.

[@1123581321enter]

picasso

[@joebentleytheartist]

nonsense sounds like the media now

[@keepcalmycarryon]

Ugh, Picasso's cubist phase was his artistic nadir.

[@nickfanzo]

Yeah it surely didn't change the world of art or anything. I say rubbish.

[@jamesthompson8775]

Met please stop hiring heads of the Met with British and French accents. Hire Americans!

[@DrMAHMMuseumAtHomeinMusic]

😂🤣😄

[@cliffdariff74]

Why is the American Met Museum of art director an Englishman? Shouldn't that position be held for an American?

[@jamesanonymous2343]

over rated, over valued, over priced. But what does the public know anaway !

[@lontivero4554]

Absolutely not

[@gavinyates9189]

Most definitely

[@sotoart89]

Overrated

[@joeyculley5509]

Not a chance.

[@sammysmith586]

Chrysmuse89- Absolutely correct. Way overrated. It is shocking to see how dull and dirty his palette was. Beautiful paintings? Please.

[@gonebymidnight2881]

😂😂

[@albertdeezy9891]

Sammy smith Sometimes the beauty is in the struggle

[@bigbono12]

This show and the commentary of Gary Tinterow unfortunately tells us nothing important about these works of Picasso. The commentary of this video is particularly superficial and trival dealing as it does with information which is peripheral to the meaning of the works themselves. These art historians really don't understand painting at all. What a waste.

[@sabrinanascimento5248]

This is great.