Still life with fishing net 1925

This is Pablo Picasso’s “Still Life with Fishing Net”, and I imagine him making this with oil paint on canvas. It’s like he's wrestling with perception itself! There’s a real tension here, in the way he lays down each stroke, with the muted palette, you can almost feel him thinking. What does it mean to really *see* a still life? Is it about rendering every detail realistically, or is it about capturing the essence of the forms, the feelings they evoke? Look at the fishing net, rendered with such delicate lines! You can see the push and pull of vision, of seeing, unseeing, and re-seeing. It reminds me of the way painters are constantly in conversation with each other, riffing on the same themes, but always with a unique voice. We're all just fishing for something, aren’t we?