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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lloyd249, post: 2450042, member: 1211&quot;]ya i know&nbsp; i was just being funny </p><p><br /></p><p>In 1945, Pablo Picasso produced a series of 12 lithographs entitled <i>The Bull</i>, in which he began with a realistic drawing of the animal, progressing through gradual removal of ‘superfluous’ elements of the creature to reach a simple linear abstraction. This piece, showing the stages of abstraction, is in many ways emblematic of Picasso’s approach to the abstract; a daring experiment in reduction and non-conventional forms of representation, but one that never completely abandons the real.</p><p><br /></p><p>Picasso’s art never reached the pure abstraction attained by pioneers of the movement, such as Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Delaunay, figures who made popular the idea that art could exist in its own right, completely separated from depictions of the real world. Although this idea can be traced back to Plato, the birth of abstract art is now seen to be in 1910, the same time at which Picasso was developing Cubism, although truly abstract works, such as Kandinsky’s Black Square, did not appear until a few years later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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