Bacchanal with Seated Woman Holding a Baby
Pablo Picasso Spanish
Printed by Hidalgo Arnéra French
Within the classical tradition, the bacchanal—a celebration centered around music, dance, and wine—offered artists an especially fruitful vehicle for depicting uninhibited movement and revelry. Here, Picasso rendered figures in the most simplified manner and in flat planes of color, as if seen in silhouette, accentuating the exaggerated poses of the horn player and the dancer with cymbals. The woman with a baby—a calm and static foil to her companions—adds a tender, familial note to the scene.
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