Related Picassos - Grand air, Les yeux fertiles, 1936

	Grand air, Les yeux fertiles, 1936
If you've found this site useful, we'd really appreciate a small donation to help with the hosting costs. Thanks!	The 1934 Drawing and its Correspondences in Picasso's Oeuvre Grand air, Les yeux fertiles, 1936 In this illustrated poem, a horned female plucks out the eye of the Baccus figure opposite her. The two figures symbolise the universal opposites, male and female, sun and moon, etc, in much the same way as the left and right hand figures do in the 1934 drawing. The significance of a one eyed god relates to Picasso's preoccupation with the theme of blindness which seems to have begun in Horta or Barcelona in 1899 with a watercolour and charcoal portrait of a mysterious one-eyed man. In the 1934 drawing, the theme of blindness recurs in a number of ways, most significantly in the depiction the central figure, who appears as a crucified painter, identifiable with the Hanged Man in the Tarot. "The Hanged Man" is the Norse god Odin, who sacrificed an eye, was stabbed by a spear, and underwent an inverted crucifixion to gain mystical enlightenment. For more information about this please refer to the "The Three Dancers" and "Hanged Man" texts listed in the index. © Mark Harris 1996, 1997 Related Picassos The Burial of Casagemas (Evocation), 1901 The Embrace, 1901 La Vie, 1903 Phallus and Nude, 1903 The Mackerel, 1903 Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 Curtain Design for Parade, 1917 Pantomime Horse Studies for Parade, 1917 - Related Puppetry Imagery Costume Studies for Pulchinella, 1920 The Three Dancers, 1925 The Three Dancers in depth La Statuaire, 1925 The Studio, 1925 Crucifixion, 1930 Crucifixion Studies of the 1930's The Vollard Suite Classical Prints of the 1920's and 1930's The Dream, 1932 Le Meurtre, 1934 and The Death of Marat, 1934 Minotaur with Javelin, 1934 Minotauromachy, 1936 Picasso's illustrations of Paul Eluard's poem, "La Barre d'Appui", 1936 Guernica, 1937 Guernica in depth Picasso's Secret Guernica Night Fishing in Antibes, 1939 Curtain Design for Romain Rolland's Play,"Le 14 Juillet", 1936 Grand air, Les yeux fertiles, 1936 Erotic Compositions of the 1950's and 1960's Peace, 1952 Picasso's Bestiary Next Section: Themes of the 1934 Drawing

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