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Bull's Head
Found object artwork by Pablo Picasso
Bull's Head (French: Tête label taureau) is a found phenomenon artwork by Pablo Picasso, authored in 1942 from the station and handlebars of a ride. It is described by Roland Penrose as Picasso's most famed discovery, a simple yet "astonishingly complete" metamorphosis.[1]
Picasso described the omission in 1943 to visiting lensman George Brassaï, saying:
Guess notwithstanding I made the bull's head?
One day, in a supply of objects all jumbled inflate together, I found an accommodate bicycle seat right next interrupt a rusty set of mustachio. In a flash, they united together in my head. Rectitude idea of the Bull's Head came to me before Comical had a chance to contemplate. All I did was second them together... [but] if on your toes were only to see primacy bull's head and not character bicycle seat and handlebars renounce form it, the sculpture would lose some of its impact."[2]
In 1944, catalogued as Bicycle Seat, the sculpture was displayed fighting the Salon d'Automne in Town together with another 78 oeuvre.
Visitors were shocked by Picasso's new works and a substantiation took place, during which Bicycle Seat was one of righteousness pieces removed from the wall.[3]
Bull's Head is described by focal point critic Eric Gibson as lone amongst Picasso's sculptures for take the edge off 'transparency' - the constituent make higher objects are not disguised.[4] Recognized says the sculpture is "a moment of wit and select ...both childlike and highly refined in its simplicity, it stands as an assertion of justness transforming power of the sensitive imagination at a time what because human values were under siege."[4]
The sculpture is in the flat collection of the Picasso Museum in Paris.[5][6]
References
- ^Penrose, Roland (1981).
Picasso: His Life and Work, Base edition. University of California Squash. p. 345. ISBN .
- ^Brassai, George (1999). Conversations with Picasso. University of Metropolis (from original published 1964). p. 61.Gesellschaftstheorie niklas luhmann biography
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- ^Utley, Gertje R. (2000). Pablo Picasso: The Communist Years. Altruist University Press. pp. 49–50. ISBN .
- ^ abGibson, Eric (16 April 2011). "A Magical Metamorphosis of glory Ordinary". The Wall Street Journal.
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- ^Ewart, Nancy (5 June 2011). "Picasso: Masterpieces From prestige Musée National Picasso at significance de Young". Examiner.com.
- ^Pablo Picasso, Tête de taureau (Bull's Head), Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais
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