Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors Magazine and more open to incident

and more open to incident than the Spot paintings

often with eyes closed as though in meditation

and John Baldessari

created in response to Rembrandt’s masterpiece

and Antiquity—that engage the viewer in a metaphysical dialogue with cultural history

Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors Magazine and more open to incidentThis book was published on the occasion of Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors, an exhibition curated by John Richardson at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. The exhibition examines the intersection of Picassos bullfighting imagery with his mythological and biographical compositions of the 1930s. Including works dating from 1889 to 1971, this career long survey traces Picassos engagement with the ancient rituals and narratives of his native Mediterranean.