How the back of an iconic painting reveals the life it lived 

While I was a teenager studying art in a well-funded progressive 1960's public high school in an affluent Philadelphia suburb, I learned that the varying contexts of any work of fine art greatly informs a viewer's more complete understanding of the genius the work can present to that lucky viewer. Great kudos to the folks who brought this informative and art appreciation enhancing video to those of us who's lives are further enriched by most fully understanding the brilliance of human creativity!

One of my favorite Picasso works of all time! Fascinating to hear the story of what the back of the work tells us!

Beautiful story. So glad the painting is immortalized at the MoMA for all to see!

As someone who has lived in Fontainebleau for a couple of years and still lives nearby, this is fascinating! I've probably been past that garage many times and never knew about what a story was behind those walls. I love the famous Fontainebleau forest, a lot of impressionist artists were inspired by it and ended up protecting it from big industries who wanted to exploit it.

Not a fan of Picasso but I love this painting of the "Three Musicians". I had no idea there was another one until I watched this video. Thank you MoMA for making great art accessible to the masses.

I hope one day my paintings will be in a video like this, having someone taking such great and excited care as these women.

I love that it took details into another level.

I admire the man at the end's confidence in his drill technique to go 1 handed like that. Bold I like it

Stunning. As interesting as either the painting itself or the artists’ life. Thank you.

I, also, could have watched for another hour--fascinating!

Thank you for presenting this picture back to front.

That painting gets treated better than most people

The MoMA is definitely one of the best places I’ve ever been too. The company I was with had a bad attitude towards it though I should come back myself sometime.

Incredible to watch; I learned so much! Thank you!

A fascinating story! Thank you!

Lovely❤ I love how you talk about the back of the artwork just a significant I recently found Patrick Nagal in a thrift store, It is the back of the painting that makes me believe it's authenticity

Amazing

Such a cool story!

The gap between the artist and the conservator could not be bigger - and this is an excellent depiction of this phenomenon.

Very cool. Thank you for this!

Very interesting!👏

Bravo

20 thousand paintings in a lifetime - a real machine

I would love to know the back story, if you will, of other works in MoMA's collection. Dance 1 by Matisse is a painting that immediately comes to mind.

Way back when I was 19 my group in college did a performance art version of this painting using cardboard and our bodies so we could pretend to play and dance to flamenco music.

Dope

6:13 The subtle Connecticut diss! lol

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His Bleu period ❤ Cubism. What realm, dimension is this Picasso - tell us? He’s here. And has been. Redirected since March. Same old haunts. Montreal, the old port, beside the Hyggie.

Very interesting. The music overpowers the dialog. I had to turn on captioning to understand what was being said.

Does anybody know the name of the music which starts at 3:36?

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All your paintings are irreplaceable PLEASE PLEASE PLACE THEM behind a piece of invisible glass. I frequently go to 53 st in awe. There are just sickos eg Mona Lisa. Love the movie's in the basement.

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Saludos desde México Lindo La Revolución verdadera está en la Justicia Social de hacer política pública que exhiba las obras de Todos Los Artistas💐

I think we need to use the word iconic a lot more.

How come that so much European art is in the US??!

Gimme the loot

Romaine bear don’s painting?

Why US doesn’t change to the metric system? Most countries have the metric system. I doubt Picasso cut the canvas to 7 feet. Canada did 40 years ago.

김갑진 예술 [존재론] 인간존재와 우주만물의 존재에 대한 존재론적인 회화적 고찰 입니다.

Let's remind that Picasso loved to slice items to pieces in order to give them a brand new life on canvas, happens to us every single day, having the eyes on the same side of the head and the nose on the other side, he is a very emotional painter. Using canvas he loved to paint fragments that mix together, his sculptures instead he used recycled wasted junk to create...new forms of beauty. His genius nature is about giving us this sense of...things we never seen before, not the way we were used to see them usually... let's remind things that are so obvious about human nature that people ignore them and it's not a good idea. Human specie is sensitive towards beauty, there must be a God out there the one who decided, how come we feel so happy when we are surrounded of beautiful things even...few try to understand really Picasso to the deep of his intentions. From my behalf guys, this planet should look like a fine arts gallery, people is so sad suffering of depression or unhappiness because there are too many empty walls all around us. Picasso used junk wasted materials for his scuptures, well, I would ask everybody and anybody start to build up a three dimensional Picasso painting made of ...jam jars, wasted bottles or food packaging in order to have a nice vertical garden at least one empty wall, inside or outside the house, or both or even better, fill them all empty walls of Picasso compositions made of recycled wasted materials...you can give tips of how to understand Picasso as it should be understood... enjoying his spirit and go creative like him and feel so released to build up a brand new universe... that's our biggest trouble above all, you see, when people is obsessed of enemies to fight against instead of ... creating the world all over again, each individual as he wishes, no need to fight against anyone, except the inner demons

I liked every second of this until the end... No myth has been shattered a person who handles other peoples work has no voice , nothing to say and nothing to add. do your job and do it well with discretion be a shadow not a spotlight...

'there are so many other people involved in that painting's life' Greetings card Yank therapeutic shit

sf moma gets piles of rope on floor.

The commentary is so idiotic.

,It's a Fake picasso for sure. An art dealer will go beyond any length to create and sell a myth, to market. Delusion / Priceless

Picassos are all going to be destroyed in the future I literally hate Picasso