Initially titled «The Forces of Life and the Spirit Triumphing over Evil », the composition was renamed in 1958 by George Salles, who preferred the current title, “The Fall of Icarus”. Picasso’s mural ...

From Pop art icon Andy Warhol to master of Arte Povera Michelangelo Pistoletto, these artists transformed the genre of ...

Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto is particularly well known, given its age and composition. It contains an ode to the friend and artist whose suicide plunged Picasso into despondency.

This is Pablo Picasso the way he is rarely seen – at least in so far as the hundred or so pieces at the British Museum’s Picasso: Printmaker have been displayed. The viewer is treated to ...

because “it shows once again that Picasso, when he reused his supports, incorporated the forms of the underlying composition into the surface painting.” “In both ‘Portrait of Mateu ...

In Star Wars Guernica, Darth Vader, R2-D2 and Yoda are seen in a battle, echoing Picasso’s action-packed composition. Meanwhile, Punk Skunk Guernica features toy sculptures that belong to his ...

One explanation is that Picasso simply recycled the canvas when he was short on supplies. Instead of whitewashing the canvas to start anew, he began a new composition on top of the old one.