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Picasso painted over another artist's work—and then over his own, new imaging reveals
Hidden beneath the brush strokes of Pablo Picasso's 1902 oil painting La Miséreuse accroupie (The Crouching Beggar) lies the work of another Barcelona artist. And the underlying work seems to have inspired some of Picasso's artistry. Mountains in the original painting—a landscape scene—became the outline of the back of the subject in Picasso's work, which depicts a crouching, cloaked woman.
Experts have known about the hidden image since 1992, when the underlying layers of the painting were first probed using x-ray radiography. But new work, using modern imaging techniques, is revealing more detail—not only about the original painting, but also about Picasso's. Researchers discovered another hidden layer: Under the woman's cloak, Picasso painted an image of her hand clutching a piece of bread, the team announced here today at the annual meeting AAAS, which publishes Science.
The discovery allows us "to look inside Picasso's head and get a sense of how he was making decisions as he was painting the canvas," says Marc Walton, a cultural heritage scientist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and a lead researcher on the study. "He reworked, he labored on painting this individual element, but then chose to abandon it at the end."
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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday February 19 2018, @02:23AM (5 children)
Francoise Gilot -- she was his baby mama -- called him so many HORRIBLE names. In her book that sold a MILLION copies. Guys, this is why I always, always get the nondisclosure agreement.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Monday February 19 2018, @02:29AM (4 children)
Not in New York.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday February 19 2018, @03:36AM (3 children)
Maybe, probably he was. Because Francoise Gilot moved to New York, she worked at the Guggenheim, which is one of our museums in New York. Used to be a GREAT museum, it's a HORRIBLE one now. It was horrible to me. As I said, as I wrote, in another tweet.
Let me tell you, I don't think she'll ever forgive him. She must be 100 by now, he's been dead so long, but I don't think she'll forgive him. I wouldn't.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Monday February 19 2018, @03:53AM (2 children)
Not like you.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1) by realDonaldTrump on Monday February 19 2018, @04:03AM (1 child)
Haven't we all. Are we babies?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @04:32AM
When he would drive down the street in his El Dorado
Well he was only 5'3"
But girls could not resist his stare
Consequently Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole