Glass, Newspaper, and Die
Pablo Picasso Spanish
Not on view
Picasso toyed with standard trompe l’oeil themes in this relief sculpture, which he framed as if it were a painting. The glass and newspaper, fashioned entirely from bent and cut tin, project so far beyond the ready-made frame that a viewer drawing too close might suffer a nasty cut—an absurdist parody of seventeenth-century paintings of tables strewn with objects that appear to protrude outward and invite the urge to touch. The grisaille (gray monochrome) palette echoes that adopted by painters who specialized in simulating relief sculpture, but Picasso’s super-sketchy technique is flamboyantly anti-illusionistic.
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