Pablo Picasso, one of the world’s most influential artists can also be called “Poo-casso.” It is being reported that the Spanish artist who is known internationally for his work has used his daughter’s feces as paint.
According to FOX News Latino, a new book cites that the famous Spanish artist once used excrement of his then 3-year-old daughter Maya to paint an apple in a 1938 still life.
The site reports that fecal matter in the fine art is actually not unheard of. In the past, painter Chris Ofili caused major controversy when he used elephant excrement in his 1996 painting “The Holy Virgin Mary”- but Picasso’s use of his family feces is shocking given the Spanish artist’s fame.
The surprising revelation was told to authors Thomas Girst and Magnus Resch for their new book “100 Secrets of the Art World” by Picasso’s granddaughter Diana Widmaier Picasso.
“According to him, excrement from an infant breast-fed by its mother had a unique texture and ocher color,” Widmaier Picasso said in the book, according to the New York Post. “The revulsion that this material might provoke is instead transformed into amazement as we grasp the full imagination of the artist.”
It seems as if artists using waste is not a new thing. Andy Warhol made a series of works where he urinated on the canvas covered with metallic paint to cause oxidation, while the abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock was rumored to have urinated on finished paintings before delivering them to art dealers he was not too fond of.
It kind of makes you wonder if you ever gazed, or dare we say even touched a painting that may have been created with waste matter?
The thoughts alone will definitely make an art enthusiast weary about any work they discover.
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