Boy leading a horse picasso biography
Picasso horse drawing
Walking behind a horse...
Boy Leading a Horse, by Pablo Picasso
Boy Leading a Horse is yet another masterpiece critics praise without trying to explain. Either they believe it has no meaning or that explaining it is impossible.
That is no reason not to try.
Boy leading a horse picasso biography
The more difficult an image is to interpret, the more you will experience aesthetic satisfaction when you do start to understand it. Richardson searched for Picasso's sources but gave up, calling the picture "derivative." The painting, though, must mean something; all masterpieces do and it is our job to figure them out.
Sources, as always, are key. The two figures - horse and boy - first appeared as a sketch for a much larger masterpiece that was never finished.
Boy leading a horse picasso biography summary
No expert seems to have noticed that the horse in the picture under discussion is derived from Mantegna's Parnassus in the Louvre. Parnassus was the mythic home of the arts. Hermes and Pegasus, the winged horse, are in the right foreground of Mantegna's image (far le