Woman turned right by Pablo Picasso

Woman turned right 1934

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painting, oil-paint

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portrait

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cubism

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painting

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oil-paint

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pop art

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figuration

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geometric

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abstraction

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modernism

Copyright: Pablo Picasso,Fair Use

Pablo Picasso made 'Woman turned right' with paint, and it’s like he’s building a face, piece by piece, color by color. Look at how the colors don't blend; they bump up against each other. It's a jigsaw of hues: pinks, greens, blues, and yellows. It’s a total Picasso move to show you multiple perspectives all at once. The surface has a rough texture, you can almost feel the bristles of the brush as he applied each stroke. Take that black line defining her profile. It’s bold, almost defiant, separating the pink and green. It doesn’t just outline; it declares! It reminds me a bit of Matisse's cut-outs, where the line has a life of its own. This is about how we see, how we piece together our reality from fragments. Art isn’t about answers; it’s about the questions we ask along the way.

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