
Pablo paintings are really neat, but I'm just not good at taking pictures of them. Plus, I had no idea that his sculptures were so cool, too. Cubism seems to make more sense to me when it is 3-dimensional. Like this goat for example. He used plaster, cardboard some old dishes, and a big wicker basket to put him all together. Seperate entities that to him best represented certain parts of a goat's body. And check out this girl jumping rope. He used a lot of the same materials as he did for the goat (you can see the basket), but also a bunch of string, and some real shoes. Her arms are much smaller than they ought to be, and the rope is just huge, while the hair is one big block of cardboard. What's the first thing you observe when seeing a little girl jumping rope? Her hair bobbing up and down, how much bigger the rope is than sh

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Maybe the string is supposed to symbolize the link between the girl and the jumprope in some way. She jumps when the rope gets to the right spot, but the rope in turn doesn't move unless she moves it. There's my weak attempt...
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