"The masks weren't like other kinds of sculpture. Not at all. They were magical things[...] They were weapons. To help people stop being dominated by spirits, to become independent. Tools. If we give form to the spirits, we become independent of them. The spirits, the unconscious, emotion, it's the same thing."
-Pablo Picasso (1937)
"For Guernica is a painting about how Picasso imagines suffering; and just as when he is working on a painting or sculpture about making love the intensity of his sensations makes it impossible for him to distinguish between himself and his lover, just as his portraits of women are often self-portraits of himself found in them, so here in Guernica he is painting his own suffering as he daily hears
Bacchus is the Roman God of wine and pleasure as depicted in many of Picasso's works during the same time period that 'The Naked Man' was dated to by the experts, 1931-1937. Picasso's pieces in the The Vollard Suite (1930-1937), had numerous works of art that Bacchus was shown such as the examples shown; "In the summer's last paean to Marie-Thérèse, Picasso depicts himself as Bacchus," (ii) Click
Picasso's overwhelming admiration and fascination with the goat is evident in his artworks. From sculptures like 'She-Goat' (1950) to drawings such as 'The Goat' (1946) and ceramic pieces, the goat's head is seen within Bacchus's face in the masterpiece, perhaps symbolizing power and strength. Picasso even had a pet goat himself, further demonstrating his love for the animal. The symbolism of the
"It is no longer possible to say whether these 'lineaments' are an expression of Picasso's pleasure in the woman's body or a description of her pleasure. The paintings, because they describe sensation, are highly subjective, but part of the very force of sex lies in the fact that its subjectivity is mutual. In these paintings Picasso is no more just himself: he is the two of them, and their shared
"Later he used to say quite often, paper lasts quiete as well as paint and after all if it all ages together, why not, and he said further, after all, later, no one will see the picture, the legend that the picture has created, then it makes no difference if the picture lasts or does not last. Later they will restore it, a picture lives by its legend, not by anything else." (iv)
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