Description:
Painter thinking of a large canvas representing three women
Label Text:
In this series, a suite of 347 diverse prints produced between March and October of 1968, Picasso focused obsessively on the artist and model theme through a range of print techniques and picaresque scenarios. Here the artist, a puny old man, fixes his gaze on three monumental nude women - models for the enormous profiled canvas that bisects the composition. The canvas, as barrier, underscores the dichotomy between artist and model - voyeur and subject. A "split-screen" composition, with contrasting graphic techniques, emphasizes the dynamic of opposing forces and sexual power. Although they are "boxed-in" and under his controlling gaze, one woman return his stare, one averts her eyes and shields her genitals, and one turns her back.
Tags:
black and white; figures; nudes; lines; abstract Link to share this object record:
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