Artyfactory has a great piece on Picasso’s reduction of a detailed drawing of a bull into an abstract basic shape using just twelve pen strokes.
It starts here:
And ends here:
The interesting stuff is what comes in-between.
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Artyfactory has a great piece on Picasso’s reduction of a detailed drawing of a bull into an abstract basic shape using just twelve pen strokes.
It starts here:
And ends here:
The interesting stuff is what comes in-between.
Tim Connor
on 22 Jul 08It’s a great series of lithos, ut the article is hurt by some factual errors and op ed at the bottom under “facts,” which makes one wonder about the rest of it.
Brandon Durham
on 22 Jul 08I love that it says
mantas
on 22 Jul 08looks damn cool!
GeeIWonder
on 22 Jul 08@Brandon, Tim:
Yeah, I laughed at that too. I happen to agree, but listing that opinion under ‘facts’ is ridiculous. The cubism bit is arguable as well.
Nice Lithos though. Got me all guernica’d up.
Observer
on 22 Jul 08The bull’s schlong got very small during the artistic process.
Tim
on 22 Jul 08actually, it starts here, you posted the second plate.
The second one is already pretty “opinionated” in terms of proportions.
iuri
on 22 Jul 08Check this Picasso Documentary to see him painting: Le Mystere Picasso (1956).
john
on 22 Jul 08the master!
JD
on 22 Jul 08It takes me more than twelve strokes to get from here to there …
Scott Semple
on 22 Jul 08“My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”
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