A TRIBUTE TO PABLO PICASSO
Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest artists of the last century, was also a huge fan
of comics. As a recipient in the 1940s, he regularly exchanged the contents of his
wastebasket for comics from the USA. And he depicted many figures with a humorous
comic character. But he never fully committed to the medium.
The only thing I regret in my life is that I never drew a comic.
Pablo Picasso
Picasso‘s On the Beach, his 1937 Bathers with a Toy Boat, with all its sexual innuendos
becomes the starting point for a comic animation. It shows a voyeur trying to get
close to two naked women on the beach with the help of a toy boat. Michaela Konrad
establishes this scenery and adds more of Picasso‘s figures. For example, a pointed,
female figure, borrowed from a painting that can be seen in the Metropolitan Museum
in New York, or two bathing women whose bodies have special characteristics: they
have two faces, one real face and a second – depicted using breasts, navel and
genitalia …
In this way, Michaela Konrad brings well-known and less well-known works of Picasso literally to life and tells a charming story about people‘s hunt for love and the object of
their desire.
Here you can see the first scene of Michaela Konrad’s Picasso-Comic:
