Minotaur,drinker and women 1933

This is 'Minotaur, drinker and women' by Pablo Picasso, made with ink, probably in one go! You can see how the lines are really confident. I love how the light and dark areas fight with each other on the page. He must have been wrestling with it, too. See how he’s gone back over some of the lines, thickening and darkening them? It’s almost like he's trying to pin down a feeling, trying to trap it on the paper, but it keeps slipping away. The Minotaur is a complex character in Picasso’s work. Sometimes he stands for the artist, sometimes the monstrous. And that female figure, reclining languidly while the drama unfolds around her—she looks like she couldn’t care less. I know the feeling. It reminds me of Goya. Artists are always in conversation with each other, across time. We grab ideas, steal them, re-work them, and make them our own. That’s how art evolves!