Woman with guitar 1913

This is Picasso’s Woman with Guitar, a tall, skinny painting on canvas. The palette here is mostly browns, greens, and blues, laid down flat, without much shading. I love how Picasso deconstructs form, taking it apart only to reassemble it in surprising ways. You can see how the planes intersect and overlap, creating a dynamic tension between abstraction and representation. I can imagine Picasso in his studio, turning the canvas this way and that, adjusting the shapes until they feel just right. What do you think he was listening to when he made this? I see in it some music hall, or the quiet hum of pre-war life. Look at the area where the stripes meet the polka dots—that’s the hinge of the painting right there! For me, this painting is about embracing that uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meanings rather than settling for a single, fixed reading. It’s part of Picasso's ongoing conversation with other artists, an exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity.