Everyone has their own taste in art and once I was not an admirer of Picasso's work. These days I know more about the artist and his own own reasons for his art and this givers me more appreciation of the works.  Picasso one critisized someone for calling him an artist. He snapped back that Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were artist and he himself was an entertainer.  When I read this, my opinion of the man and the artist leaped a mile.  When I look at the painting above I see that it has a pure fun element to it. It isn't meant to be taken over seriously. It is OK to laugh at art. As a woman I am not overly impressed by the bare thrusting breasts. It seems rather commercialism and sensationalism, aimed at gaining attention to me...but then this worked. This ability to gain attention, to be sensational, commercial, is why Picasso was noted and is remembered.
I do like the colour harmony and the freedom and fun in the painting, I think these women are less offensive and more attractive than the thin air brushed size 6 models in the fashion magazines. I would enjoy seeing this exhibition though I remain a traditional, classic art fan.

More than 150 of Pablo Picasso's most important paintings, sculptures and drawings are on their way to Australia as part of a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The works will come from the artist's personal collection at the Musee Picasso in Paris and will be on view in Sydney from November.

It is said to be the biggest exhibition of works by Picasso to ever come to Australia.

Outgoing gallery director Edmund Capon says the collection is a blockbuster, and described the upcoming exhibition as "the definitive Picasso experience".

"What I think is really important about these, they all come from the Musee Picasso, and all those works were the ones that Picasso actually retained for himself," he said.

"It's the kind of Picasso show - if you want to see this amazing career and output but distilled down to one exhibition experience, this is it."

Mr Capon says there are two clear reasons the exhibition is a must-see.

"One is that you will never ever see such a summation of Picasso's work, certainly here in Australia," he said.

"And secondly many of his pictures - the grotesque and the compassionate, the ugly and the beautiful - fit together, and you see the full experience of life and the full experience of the human condition."

Picasso: Masterpieces From The Musee National Picasso in Paris will be open to the public for more than four months - from November 12 to March 25, 2012.

Highlights include such famous works as The Weeping Woman, Two Women Running On The Beach, The Two Brothers and The Matador.