bull masks
TRANSCRIPT
The concepts behind Pablo Piccaso’s Bull Series
Analysis by: Lathan Toland
“There are lines that lack border. There is a
disconnection of individuality that presents a general
concept and structure.”
“What the artist perceives as a bull is
incorporated in the image. You can see he
is trying to translate the attitude/general
idea of a bull.”
“Translates shapes that build the elements
of a bull. It makes you look at each aspect
of the bull to explain the structure of the
bull.”
“The bull has a sarcastic look to it and it
makes me feel more connected. The shading
captures how environments can justify the
presence.”
“This bull looks like it has its own thinking
complex, rather than capturing a portrait.
The lines create areas that the eye is drawn
to.”
“The bull no longer exists as a physical
element. It makes me perceive it as a
creature of personality looking beyond the
image I see."
“It highlights how each part explains its
animal existence and how less complex it is
to human life. Animals have absence of
thinking.”This bull in particular exposes more on how to consider seeing art as a way to imply meanings about what the creature is. To me, this bull appears symbolic through the absence of shading and detail to signify elements that show how the bull acts, its goals. Areas on the bull seem to have more thought put into them when having created the piece. Perhaps to give those parts on the animal a function and thusly its own purpose. In comparison to humans, I would see in an animal only the parts that justify what it means to me as a person.
“All that is seen in previous
slides/paintings have been combined to
explain the animal. It creates shape and
individuality.”
“It looks to be a picture that a viewer
invents him/herself; it is a bull but the
viewer asks themselves what makes it so.”
“I am reminded of the principles of human
evolution through art. The bull has no
complex, but is invented by the illusion of
the viewer.”
“I see 11 lines that seem to have
complementary meaning towards the
significance of the other bulls to it. We see
a bull only by comparison.”