Discover the story behind one of Picasso’s best known artworks
This picture is more complicated than it first appears. What seems to be an exhuberant celebration of life is in fact a savage dance of death.
This is a painting about raw emotions. Lust, guilt and grief, painted at a time when Picasso had fallen out of love with his first wife.
It also may tell the story of a violent love triangle.
What do you think?
Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect
Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted
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