Modern

‘Glass and Bottle of Suze’, 1912, Pablo picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Pasted papers, gouache, and charcoal

• Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist, painter, sculpture and draughtsman. He was born on October 25th, 1881 in Malaga, Spain.
• Picasso is one of the most recognised 20th Century artists and is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for his wide range of styles produced in his works.
• The Cubist movement involved artists painting images using cubes, spheres, cylinders and other geometric shapes. Artworks would often look as if they were separate images, cut up and put back together.
• This work is on a liquor bottle with a label and glass placed on a table, with an ash tray and cigarette and smoke. In this work, Picasso explores different levels of interpretation and illusion by forcing the viewer to notice the simple flat arrangement of objects cut out of paper, as well as the individual objects themselves.
• The newspaper provides an interesting background to the work as well as suggesting the popular activity of reading the paper whilst drinking and having a cigarette, as well as adding a political and social dimension to the image.