Auguste Blackman 'Picasso's Monsters' - Acrylic on canvas italian artists new life is born

new life is born

Image Size: 43 x 31 cm

'Last Drop' 2017

including the National Gallery of Australia

mezzotint on paper

Auguste Blackman 'Picasso's Monsters' - Acrylic on canvas italian artists new life is bornAuguste Blackmans depictions of the minotaur take after Pablo Picassos. The part man part bull recurs throughout the latter artists oeuvre, giving form to an entanglement of ideas. On one hand, it embodies Picassos lasciviousness, violence, guilt and despair. The minotaur is by nature uncontrollable; a victim to its own swelling instincts. On a more universal level, the minotaur symbolises the unconscious at large; for the surrealists, it evoked