Picasso Reworked

An inventive and retrospective art project for you today.                

Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous and iconic artists of all time, reinventing modern art as we know it today. His huge, eclectic variety of styles was one of his most impressive features as an artist and his coining of Cubism is one of his countless achievements. Such Cubist works as The Weeping Woman and Girl with a Mandolin have become quintessential points of reference for any art historian and inspired a whole movement of artists to follow in his wake.

Well, these inspirees now include Pakistani artist Omar Aqil who has recreated a selection of Picasso’s Cubist works in 3D. He has reformed the 2D, angular shapes that are found in Picasso’s paintings into sculptures made from a variety of different media. This results in a modernising and fresh look at of some of the most archetypal oeuvres in a completely different context.

The project is fun, purposefully hyper-realistic and brings Picasso’s works into the contemporary era as well as injecting a new lease of life and energy into his original Cubist ideas.

Check out the works below and Aqil’s website for more information on this fascinating project.