Descripción

Neither this poster nor its motif have been reproduced in other posters.

This poster is composed of Picasso’s calligraphic text and a caricature of a bullfighting scene. The letters are drawn with the sharp wit that was so characteristic of Picasso.

Picasso’s calligraphy was very personal, combining image and writing. As Octavio Paz points out in his article ‘Mute Poems and Speaking Objects’, in reference to André Breton’s object-poems, but which can also be applied to Picasso, they contain “a mixture of visual images and graphic symbols”. This combination is ancient, especially in the East, and, in the case of the Master, the art of writing takes on a plastic dimension.