Related Picassos - Pantomime Horse Studies for Parade, 1917 - Related Puppetry Imagery

	Pantomime Horse Studies for Parade, 1917 - Related Puppetry Imagery
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 Pantomime Horse Studies for Parade, 1917 - Related Puppetry Imagery Picasso was fascinated by puppetry and linked to this were his pantomime horse studies created for Jean Cocteau's ballet, "Parade," in 1917. The designs provided Picasso with an opportunity to experiment wildly with another much loved subject, the horse, a personal symbol of female sexuality which had appeared many times previously in scenes from the bullfight and the circus. The pantomime horse motif reappears in the 1934 drawing as a concealed Picador's horse sharing body parts with the two women either side of it. Into this extraordinary amalgamation Picasso incorporated an autobiographical pun; the central figure, Picasso, appears to be riding on the horse's back whilst at the same time controlling his two women by means of puppetry; the female on the left, at the horse's head, appears as a marionette controlled by the strings descending from his right hand and the female on the right, at the horse's rear, appears as a glove puppet controlled by the hidden hand inside her head. This of course is a reference to Picasso the puppet master, which in turn has deeply magical connotations. © 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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