The concepts behind Pablo Piccaso’s Bull Series

Analysis by: Lathan Toland

“There are lines that lack border. There is a

disconnection of individuality that presents a general

concept and structure.”

“What the artist perceives as a bull is

incorporated in the image. You can see he

is trying to translate the attitude/general

idea of a bull.”

“Translates shapes that build the elements

of a bull. It makes you look at each aspect

of the bull to explain the structure of the

bull.”

“The bull has a sarcastic look to it and it

makes me feel more connected. The shading

captures how environments can justify the

presence.”

“This bull looks like it has its own thinking

complex, rather than capturing a portrait.

The lines create areas that the eye is drawn

to.”

“The bull no longer exists as a physical

element. It makes me perceive it as a

creature of personality looking beyond the

image I see."

“It highlights how each part explains its

animal existence and how less complex it is

to human life. Animals have absence of

thinking.”This bull in particular exposes more on how to consider seeing art as a way to imply meanings about what the creature is. To me, this bull appears symbolic through the absence of shading and detail to signify elements that show how the bull acts, its goals. Areas on the bull seem to have more thought put into them when having created the piece. Perhaps to give those parts on the animal a function and thusly its own purpose. In comparison to humans, I would see in an animal only the parts that justify what it means to me as a person.

“All that is seen in previous

slides/paintings have been combined to

explain the animal. It creates shape and

individuality.”

“It looks to be a picture that a viewer

invents him/herself; it is a bull but the

viewer asks themselves what makes it so.”

“I am reminded of the principles of human

evolution through art. The bull has no

complex, but is invented by the illusion of

the viewer.”

“I see 11 lines that seem to have

complementary meaning towards the

significance of the other bulls to it. We see

a bull only by comparison.”