by Michael Miner on February 11th 2008 - 8:59 p.m.
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On the left, that's "a spandrel on the southern facade of the Palazzo Ducale, Venice," to quote the February 14 issue of The New York Review of Books, which ran this picture the other day, curiously enough illustrating an essay on the late scientist Stephen Jay Gould. It turns out Gould had a thing or two to say about spandrels.
And on the right, a head shot of Chicago's own Picasso that ran in the February 4 Sun-Times. The caption noted that "some have guessed the sculpture . . . is a horse, an Afghan hound or a Viking Ship." Or had Picasso been thinking about Venice?
I presume there is supposed to be a photograph somewhere in this post.
Either you failed to post the picture or I need a CAT-scan.
-- SCAM
And what it means to me has changed over the years, I like "our" Picasso. I was among the minority who liked it the first time I saw it. Whatever influenced Pablo (and perhaps it was "all of the above") when he created it, I'm glad for the spark or sparks.
Stand behind the Picasso on the left or right at an angle (maybe 45 degrees?).
There's your woman.
It only took me more than 30 years to figure this out. Duh.
http://www.galerieart.cz/picasso_vystava_dalsi_pra...
scroll all the way down.
it's a baboon.