Picasso Games in the Galleries

The Education department at the Museum recently created a nifty "Family Guide" for the Picasso and the Avant-Garde exhibition. It's full of simple but thought-provoking games and teasers (try this one: which two paintings are most alike and different in the Cubism Salon?). You can find the guide on your way into the exhibition. Although it's technically geared toward kids, it's actually a lot of fun for those who've graduated from coloring books too, we realized. So we decided to post a couple puzzlers here. Think of them as modern-day versions of parlor games.

GAME #1: Go to the Americans in Paris gallery. One of these pictures was inspired by Cubism and one was not. Which is the Cubist work?

GAME #2. Find the Picasso and Surrealism gallery. Surrealist artists made images inspired by their dreams, feelings, and ideas that popped into their minds.... Sometimes they asked their friends to title their artwork for them. Look at the long wall of paintings with light-brown backgrounds. Can you give these paintings new titles? What would you name them?

Photo (top): Pertaining to Yachts and Yachting, Charles Sheeler, 1922; photo (bottom): Bullfight, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, 1934. All courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art