Monday, May 14, 2007

The Old Guitarist, 2004

Charcoal on paper

This has always been one of my favorite paintings, and not just because Picasso's Spanish. I feel like Picasso painted an emotion when he painted this -- loneliness. This simple drawing was done in college, when we had to do a study in black and white of a famous work.


Here's a bad photo of me with the original in The Art Institute of Chicago, about 5 years ago (time flies!):