Readings.

Why cutting linoleum

It is unknown how Picasso came to cutting linoleum; probably by the same coincidence that led him to paint one of his Arlésiennes with the feathers of pigeon that he found on the floor of the courtyard of his house. Or maybe, guided by an instinctive abstraction, sensing that linoleum possessed all the proprieties necessary to disintermediate the transformation of the creative sparkle into a material artwork, hence replicating the thrill of the Creation: God sitting alone in contemplation of the Matter. the effect of his creation. For Picasso, an unexpected souvenir d’égotisme. No printer between the medium and the idea: only the creator and the matter, with necessity sparkling the genius. Too far away the Côte d'Azur from Paris and the printing studios not to hinder the Artist’s work so becoming vital to find a new technique to do it alone, and why not a technique that he had experimented earlier in 1939.