Descripción
Neither this poster nor its subject have been reproduced in other posters. With irony, the artist sets out to create. He is the master of his world. The idea of sharpness and formal synthesis in drawing is Picasso’s own, as he places, for fun, a brush in the artist’s hand, a brush on which only one line is drawn, accepted by the latter with exaggerated elegance. The instrument becomes a stylus to mark the path of the imagination. Undoubtedly, the Master is laughing at the spectator, a rapt witness to the precision of the pictorial activity that translates into nothing when faced with a fixed gaze. What delicacy to paint a void!
This drawing is part of a series of five that Picasso made on the same day. In the first, the artist paints on the body of a striking model. In the next, he returns to his easel. In the third, he is seen alone, working on the canvas. In the fourth drawing, the model is present again, but this time, to the artist’s delight, in a suggestive pose. And in the fifth, the one reproduced on the poster, we can see the artist, without a model, without an easel, without a canvas, and with only his painting weapons in his hand, attacking the void with a slightly ironic expression.
