RE: Pablo Picasso – Collection 2 – Through periods of history, forms, paintings and sculptures 📷 Málaga – Spain

Well hello again.

I stopped over to share more insight on art. 🤣

Obviously that main sculpture was inspired by Pablo's chewing gum. It was all the rage in his lifetime, so of course he chewed it all the time. On day, he had put some of his old gum on a piece of corrugated cardboard scrap that his paints had shipped in and all of the sudden....he glanced over at his gum and BAA-ZING! He got the most awesome idea! He chewed a little more gum for the head and arms and added a little more cardboard and there he had his idea for the sculpture. Artist are often sparked by the oddest ideas.

While I'm departing all sorts of secrets, I will tell you where the idea for those jumbled faces came from. One morning he was shaving his face and all of the sudden his cat jumped off the window ledge over to the sink and startled Pablo so bad that he jumped and the mirror he was using to shave fell in the sink and broke. There were several large cracks going different ways and when he picked it up to look at it, he saw his own face all wonky in the broken glass. Right about the time he shouted out a few choice curse words, he stopped and .... you guessed it, that lightbulb went on in his head and indeed that mishap had given him one of the best ideas he ever had. So... he started painting some faces as if they were seen in broken mirrors.

Of course, the images looked so funny that he got a bigger mirror, broke it on purpose and he and his friends would get drunk in the evenings and make different poses in front of it and laugh and get ideas for more paintings. They even talked their girlfriends into doing it too, sometimes in various forms of undress.

I tell you, one accidental idea can go a long way!