Les Pains

It was through a series of still lifes that Picasso carried out the first experiments in geometrization and fragmentation of forms that would lead to Cubism. One of them features a bottle, four pears and bread on a white tablecloth background. Refusing the illusion of perspective, the painter applies the same treatment to the objects and the background, between breaking the continuity of the surfaces and expressing the volumes by fine striations made with a brush. The whole is structured by the play of colors and the central winding of the baguette and the crown of bread which seems to draw all the other elements of the painting in a great spiral movement.