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Dressed in his familiar striped shirt, Picasso appears grounded, almost casual. But where the fabric should rest softly against his chest, reality begins to bend. His torso is no longer flesh, but a woven window - an intricate grid of overlapping visions, body parts turned abstract symbols - as if his identity were trying to escape its own outline. HIs form echoes the very language he invented through Cubism. This is not portraiture. This is incantation. A study of how a man can become myth, and a myth can become geometry. It asks: What is a person if not a shifting composition? If not a puzzle of glances, gestures, and the quiet tension between presence and perception? In this piece, Picasso becomes both subject and medium - woven into his own visual philosophy.

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A Disassembled Thought (2025) Pencil drawing
by Katie Worrell

£1,900

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Dressed in his familiar striped shirt, Picasso appears grounded, almost casual. But where the fabric should rest softly against his chest, reality begins to bend. His torso is no longer flesh, but a woven window - an intricate grid of overlapping visions, body parts turned abstract symbols - as if his identity were trying to escape its own outline. HIs form echoes the very language he invented through Cubism. This is not portraiture. This is incantation. A study of how a man can become myth, and a myth can become geometry. It asks: What is a person if not a shifting composition? If not a puzzle of glances, gestures, and the quiet tension between presence and perception? In this piece, Picasso becomes both subject and medium - woven into his own visual philosophy.

Materials used:

Graphite

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Katie Worrell

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My name is Katie Worrell, I’m a 22-year-old contemporary artist from Hertfordshire, UK, whose work sits at the intersection of realism and surrealism. I attended Central Saint Martins in 2021,... Read more

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