Picasso – Manet’s “The Luncheon on the Grass”

Picasso, one of his series based on Manet’s The Luncheon on the Grass, 60×73 cm, 1960. Collection of Nahmad, London.

From the comparative images above, it is immediately clear how Picasso re-created from famous paintings, drawing inspiration from Manet’s The Luncheon on the Grass or Delacroix’s Women of Algiers. Borrowing from masterpieces became a source for Picasso’s late-period work, liberating modernist creative concepts and entering what might be called postmodern intentions, opening up new artistic perspectives. In Picasso’s eyes, modernism had reached a dead end. His playful life wandered through historical time and space, witnessing the arrival of a new era—the “postmodern.” From romantic disdain for beauty to disdain for history, this trendsetting painter truly deserves the title of “Picasso,” an unparalleled giant in art history.