Slide 1

Hello everyone, my name is Victoria and together with Natalia, Aismal and Apollinariya, we are going to
present our project Bull’s Head by Pablo Picasso.

Slide 2

So I am starting with the personality of Pablo Picasso.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who
spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century,
he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-
invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.

Picasso's work is often categorized into periods. And we want to focus on World War II because the
work of Bull’s Head was created in 1942.

Slide 3

Bull’s Head is a found object artwork by Pablo Picasso, created in 1942 from seat and handlebars of a
bicycle. It’s described as Picasso’s most famous discovery, a simple yet ‘’astonishingly complete”
metamorphosis. The sculpture is in the permanent collection of the Picasso Museum in Paris.

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Picasso described the artwork in 1943 to visiting photographer George Brassai, saying:

«Guess how I made the bull's head? One day, in a pile of objects all jumbled up together, I found an old
bicycle seat right next to a rusty set of handlebars. In a flash, they joined together in my head. The idea
of the Bull's Head came to me before I had a chance to think. All I did was weld them together... [but] if
you were only to see the bull's head and not the bicycle seat and handlebars that form it, the sculpture
would lose some of its impact.»

Slide 5

What do we see when we look at the sculpture?

Is it a bull with horns?

Or is it an old rusty bicycle and some handlebars?

We know that Picasso was walking home one day and saw a bicycle seat and handlebars lying on the
side of the road. The second he saw them he knew what to do. He took them home, stuck them
together, and created this sculpture of a bull!

What is clear? The thing that we can exactly recognize the bicycle parts.

Picasso liked giving a workout for the people’s imagination .

So is it a bull or a bicycle? We see both, people decide by themselves.

Now I give the floor to Aisamal.