Picasso’s Drawings 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition at the Frick

The title of this exhibit brings to mind a phrase of sustainable architect, Bjarke Ingels, who’s coined “architectural alchemy” as the possibility of creating gold by combining traditional elements.

Picasso, through relentless experimentation, struck upon that reinvention of tradition by pillaging and retranslating it… a pragmatic searching after precise elements to deconstruct, recombine and then utilize to express his own vision…