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Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973. Half a century after his death, he is considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. What was his driving force? What were his passions and obsessions? Response elements.
Fifty years after his death, we still ask the question. What was in Pablo Picasso’s head? A toolbox, because he was a super handyman and an inventor. In particular, he had imagined a face that can be seen both from the front and in profile. Picasso even invented cubism, or how to deconstruct a 3D volume to represent it flat on a canvas. “It will kind of unfold the shape to represent it as if we were going around the building ourselves. He will invent this prismatic writing“, explains Cécile Debray, president of the National Picasso Museum.
bullfights and women
In Picasso’s head, there is also a bull, his totem animal. In Spain, in his childhood, it was his father who took him at the age of eight to see his first bullfight. All his life, Picasso will represent a bull in all techniques and in all styles. There’s even one in the Guernica painting, prominently displayed at the top left of the canvas. If bullfighting became so popular in France from the 1950s, it was thanks to Picasso. Finally, in Pablo’s head, there are also many women. His relationships were as passionate as they were explosive.
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