Pinturas, a new show and video flamenco, about life of Picasso.

Today we want to speak about a new flamenco show that you don't have to miss if you are lucky to stay in Italy or Switzerland. It's called "Pinturas" and it narrates life of Picasso with the helping of flamenco dancing and music. At the end of the article you can find the video flamenco of the show.

The flamenco power, passion, joy and sadness on one side, the Picasso daring, visionary, and madness of his painting on another. They Belong to two different worlds, at first distant, but everyone finds the way in this show to narrate the art of each other.

The emotions that leave the paintings of Picasso are impressed, strong, unforgettable, clear and incisive as the suggestions that flamenco cause with its fast-paced rhythms.

All of this goes directly to the hearts of the audience because they are feelings that come from the bond with life itself. "Pinturas" video flamenco wants to be an eulogy to the crazy passion of the great Andalusian painter using the original key of the flamenco dancing.


first part:

MALAGA LA VIEJA:The journey begins in Malaga in the heart of Andalucia, birthplace of the painter. It's a sepia portrait of the late XIX century.

THE BLUE AND PINK PERIOD:Flamenco narrates the saddest and introspective period of the artist through one of its deepest palos: the "soleà" (loneliness).
The dancers through the flamenco language and with the help of some video flamenco showed on special screens narrate the Picasso sadness that he brings in his paintings absorbed in a bath of blue. Then there is a period of rebirth , the sadness disappears, and everything is painted with pink colour, the Picasso's world now is idyllic and serene,dancers are now arranged in connection with grace and femininity.

LINES, SHAPES AND COLOURS:Pablo Picasso is now shown through the simple elements of painting, substances with which the painter plays, which twists together and to combine them into a new shape that give life to cubism. A beautiful documentary video flamenco is showed on the screen. The dancers play with the white and black, with the lines.The "las senoritas de avignon" represents a good vigorous and impetuous painting, a real break with the painting rules.

second part:

PICASSO AND THE WOMEN: The relationship between Picasso with women was always tormented, violent, even wild. From women he absorbed the essence for moulding 'em later, making they victim and protagonist of a dangerous journey into the passion.
Women as subject and object of his artistic power. Flamenco dancers act now the most important women in the Picasso's life such as Kokhlova Olga, the Russian dancer, and Marie Therese Walter, the young gentle and sweet partner and specially Dora Maar "devilishly seductive in its camouflage of tears" the crying muse that bewitch Picasso.


GUERNICA:"painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an instrument of offensive and defensive war against the enemy "
The Picasso masterpiece, a beautiful video flamenco dancing.

PARIS:It's a tribute to the French city where he stayed for almost his entire life, from 1904 until his death. Those are years of great artistic ferment. Joy, light, vitality and exuberance typical of those atmospheres conclude the journey of Pinturas."Alegrias" palos is a festival which enlightens the end of the show.

More info about Pinturas show acted by Flamenquevive italian company.