Picasso, Miró, Dalí. Angry Young Men/Giovani e arrabbiati: la nascita della modernità, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze. by Daniel B. Gallagher

Salvador Dalí, Venus and a Sailor: Homage to Salvat-Papasseit, oil on canvas, 1925, Ikeda Museum of 20th-century Art, Shizuoka, Japan

Picasso, Miró, Dalí. Giovani e arrabbiati: la nascita della modernità, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze

The latest exhibition at the Strozzi Palace is a walk back through time to the roots of modern painting. It retells the sad tale of three “angry men” culminating in an alleged meeting between Dalí and Picasso in 1926. Barely twenty-two years old, Dalí had come to Paris with his mother and sister. Upon entering Picasso’s studio, he exclaimed: “Master, I just arrived in Paris and have come to see you before heading for the Louvre.” The episode completed a series of encounters between Miró, Dalí, and Picasso while each was striving to invent a new visual language by contemplating the work of the other two.

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