others. Spies observes, "Picasso's Mask of a Picador with a Broken Nose [1903] is a response to Rodin's Man with a Broken Nose of 1863-1863 . . . In Picasso's work, the bowed, suffering head of Rodin's sculpture undergoes a heroizing transformation" (22). The piece displays Picasso's ongoing (and especially Spanish) fascination with physical deformities and imperfections and the way in which such irregularities gave greater interest and humanity to the human form.
Picasso's exploration of Cubism that
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