Auguste Blackman 'Picasso's Monsters' - Acrylic on canvas italian artists mezzotint on paper

mezzotint on paper

Paper Dimensions: 75 x 57

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an Irish immigrant who led a fleet of drovers as they brought their cattle on hoof from the tropical north

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Auguste Blackman 'Picasso's Monsters' - Acrylic on canvas italian artists mezzotint on paperAuguste Blackmans depictions of the minotaur take after Pablo Picassos. The part man part bull recurs throughout the latter artists oeuvre, giving form to an entanglement of ideas. On one hand, it embodies Picassos lasciviousness, violence, guilt and despair. The minotaur is by nature uncontrollable; a victim to its own swelling instincts. On a more universal level, the minotaur symbolises the unconscious at large; for the surrealists, it evoked