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Students in “History of Twentieth Century Art” this fall had the option to research objects in the OSUMA collection. For the next few weeks on the blog, I will be featuring their research. This week’s author is Megan Hughes, who researched and wrote about Pablo Picasso’s color linoleum cut print, Toros en Vallauris. The following text is excerpted from her research paper.

Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. Even though he lived in France for most of his adult life, Picasso always remained fascinated with the Spanish bullfight (corrida) as a way for him to connect to his home country. Later in his life, Pablo Picasso spent many years in the south of France, in the city of Vallauris. He would attend the corrida every Sunday, and it was a frequent subject in his art during these years. One such linoleum cut print, Toros en Vallauris, of 1955, is in the collection of the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art.

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), “Toros en Vallauris (Bulls in Vallauris),” 1955. Linoleum cut, 9 x 7 inches (image). Anonymous gift, 2013.006.001.

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Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in 1881 in Málaga, Spain, as the son of the painter and drawing teacher José Ruiz Blasco and his wife Maria Picasso y Lopez. Four years after moving to La Coruna in 1891, the family went to Barcelona, as his father was called to teach at the La Lonja Academy of Art. Picasso's first major paintings were already created at this time: 'The First Communion' and 'Science and Charity' can be seen today in the Museu Picasso in Barcelona. Furthermore, Picasso began to deal with the theme of bullfighting. In 1897, the young artist began studying painting at the Academy San Fernando in Madrid, the first group exhibition was held in 1900 with the group of artists 'El Quatre Gats' (the four cats), which included Jaime Sabartès and Carles Casagemas, who won Picasso as a member in 1899. In 1900 he was able to publish some illustrations through newspapers in Barcelona and traveled to Paris with Casagemas on the occasion of the World's Fair. There he lived in an artist's studio in Montmartre and came into contact with the art of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, whom he admire

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Picasso: Cutting the bull in printmaking

Throughout his long career, encompassing most of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso tried his hand in almost all art media. Of these artistic pursuits, printmaking absorbed much of his attention: he produced 2,430 images. But apart from his prolific output, his standing as one of the greatest printmakers of all time—in a league with Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, and Francisco Goya—is due to his restless investigation of new ways to produce his muscular images.

Mia recently acquired a set of proofs for a bullfighting image, Le Banderillero, that reveal the process behind one of his most influential endeavors, the making of reduction relief prints. Relief prints are made by inking raised parts of a surface, then impressing it on a sheet of paper—rubber stamps used in offices are a familiar example (you can watch a video of the process here). Linocuts are made by carving away part of the surface of a sheet of linoleum, then inking and printing the remaining surface. Picasso liked the bold, simplified forms that linocut readily produced, so he be