Acrobat

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The Acrobat

 Who is this character?  Where does he work?  What does this painting make you feel?  Why?  What colours does Picasso use?  Why do you think he used these colours?  What colours would you use? This

painting

acrobat's

shows

body.

the

Pablo

spontaneous

Picasso

is

agility

the

of

initiator

the of

biomorphism, which was used by the Spanish painter Joan Miro.

But

Picasso's

exploration

with

maintained the human form and identity.

surrealism


In this painting, The Acrobat, Picasso painted the human figure with the cube of the frame. Despite the apparent freedom of movement. The figure is also maintained by the colors, which controls the motion of the body. It seems the body shape is locked within a white form against a black background.


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