Monday, November 10, 2008

Picasso's "Guitar"

In this collage work by Picasso called "Guitar," Picasso uses 3-D elements to play around with depth in an interesting way.  Picasso is playing around with the idea of depth and the idea of the parts versus the whole.  All of these different pieces on top of each other create a sense of depth among themselves because of the occlusion and the obvious differences in volume among them.  Yet what Picasso is also trying to accomplish here is the idea of a unified whole that is all on one plane--one guitar.  Our eyes go back and forth from seeing this image as different parts on different planes to one unified plane.  I think this game of playing with depth is exactly what Picasso was trying to achieve.

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