Colm Tóibín

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Cut, Mold, Reshape, Tear

According to his mother, as Roland Penrose and John Richardson both recount in their biographies, Picasso could draw before he could speak. “The first sound that he made was ‘piz, piz…baby language for lapiz, i.e., pencil”, Richardson writes. “When given a pencil, the infant would apparently draw spirals that represented a snail-shaped fritter called a torruela”.

Richardson adds that “none of the earliest drawings have survived, so these accounts have to be taken on faith”. By the time Picasso was nine, however, his mother began to keep the work he was making. This gives us the first two works on display in “Picasso: Cut Papers” at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles: cutouts in paper of a dog and a dove, both dated circa 1890.…  Seguir leyendo »