Finally, La Pedrera brings us an exhibit we can really sink our teeth into. Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) was a scupltor, painter and visionary. Unlike a lot of those confrontational artsy types of the twentieth century, Maillol was a man who knew what his audience liked and gave them lots of it.

Originally from Rousillon (French Catalonia), Maillol moved to Paris in 1881 and became friends with art badboy Paul Gauguin. While Gaugin passed his time painting nubile Tahitian girls, he encouraged Maillol to take up the gentler art form of tapestry.