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About the Author: Amitai Sasson

Amitai Sasson, of overstockArt.com is a renowned world traveler on a mission to seek out the beauty and passion of the art world. As an avid enthusiast of art and oil paintings, he contributes greatly to the industry with his writing.

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• violetta
  I don't know anything about this particular painting, but the bull, the bullfight, and the minotaur (mythical half-man half-bull) were all recurring themes throughout Picasso's work. He often explored the ideas of man vs. beast, primal vs. civilized, violence, dominance, etc. As a Spaniard, the bull and the bullfight were part of his culture. I think that much of the time, he was exloring his own psyche and the dualities and contradictions that existed within him.
• kellag
  Although all the paintings done by Picasso for the film were said to have been destroyed, omor has it that the artist actually held on to them.
• memere
  I took a look at the painting and it looks like a bull with a person laying over the bull. Now I don't know anything about this man's paintings but to me it depicts a bull fighter that lost