BARCELONA: Barcelona’s Picasso museum unveiled an exhibition on Cubism and War on Thursday depicting how one of the most influential artistic styles of the 20th century survived World War I.

Born around 1907 with Picasso’s ground-breaking painting ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’, Cubism could have run out of steam during the conflict as the Spanish artist and others who had settled in Paris suffered shortages and destruction.

“The movement had hardly begun and it could have been cut off by the war but they kept it alive, they didn’t let it get frozen and die,” said curator Christopher Green. “And it’s rather extraordinary with this catastrophe, this massacre happening so close.”

With around 80 works from museums such as New York’s MoMA, Paris’s Georges Pompidou Centre or London’s Tate Modern, the exhibition gives an overview of Cubist production between 1913 and 1919.

On show are artists such as Spain’s Picasso and Juan Gris, Mexico’s Diego Rivera, France’s Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Fernand Leger.

Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2016