Signature tests and reaffirmation of Pablo Ruiz Picasso Black pencil on white paper, 24.7 x 16.3 cm
Horta de San Juan, 1898. Tarragona. Spain
Horta de San Juan, 1898. Tarragona. Spain
(*) Picasso Joven, p. 255. Fundación Barrié de la Maza, La Coruña, 2003
The young Pablo Ruiz Picasso is seventeen years old.
As we have previously stated and reasoned, Pablo Ruiz Picasso continues without basic instruction, a state that today would be considered illiteracy. Disturbed thus by the pressure created around the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid, and more specifically by the demands that his father, Public Official and Professor, places on him, Pablo falls ill as a normal bodily and psychological defense mechanism.
He has argued with his father. They have assaulted, insulted, hated each other.
As we have previously stated and reasoned, Pablo Ruiz Picasso continues without basic instruction, a state that today would be considered illiteracy. Disturbed thus by the pressure created around the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid, and more specifically by the demands that his father, Public Official and Professor, places on him, Pablo falls ill as a normal bodily and psychological defense mechanism.
He has argued with his father. They have assaulted, insulted, hated each other.
The sense of survival consequently generates a shock within Pablo Ruiz Picasso, which opens his eyes to his past indolent behavior, that transforms him and he therefore timidly begins to practice his signature. Even his brain rejects the forward, masculine tendency and practices the backward, feminine tendency:
(Observe the functional imbalance of the dyslexic tendency of his brain; One minute he writes "Huebos" now "huevos," "tres ca.. .ras d carne" 10 cts. D ajo")(*)
"Everything I Know, I learned in Horta"
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Horta, Tarragona (Spain). 1898
