Guitare 1920

This is Guitare, by Pablo Picasso, and it’s oil on canvas. Look how the painting has come into being, shifting and emerging through trial, error, and intuition. I really feel for the artist. I can only imagine what it must have been like to create this. What he might have been thinking when he made it. What does the texture communicate? Is the paint thick or thin? Picasso's brushstrokes have feeling, intention, and meaning. See how Picasso's work relates to the practices and bodies of work of other painters. He is in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. What is really amazing to me is how painting is a form of embodied expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning over fixed or definitive readings.