I spotted this beautiful progression of drawings on Reddit and decided to publish the original link, [1]which features a short series of bulls drawn by Picasson in late 1945. Beautiful drawings start with a full bodied bull and end with an incredibly simple and elegant version.
When I was a child, I used to hear people comment on Picasso’s cubism, suggesting that Picasso couldn’t draw realistically and that is why he drew those “strange” drawings. I grew up in a Midwest suburb that was often rife with parochialism and ignorance! I saw that this sleight aimed at Picasso wasn’t true years later with my own eyes when, in New York in about 1980, I viewed a huge series of Picasso’s work spanning his entire life. The early drawings were phenomenally realistic. That is what I was reminded of when I spotted this short series.
This sleight also reminds me that humans are fantastically good at making claims for which they have no evidence.
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