Pablo Picasso created 'Bull' (on purpose) around the Christmas of 1945. 'Bull' is a suite of eleven lithographs that have become a master class in how to develop an artwork from the academic to the abstract. In this series of images, all pulled from a single stone, Picasso visually dissects the image of a bull to discover its essential presence through a progressive analysis of its form. Each plate is a successive stage in an investigation to find the absolute 'spirit' of the beast. It´s artificial, anyway.
By the way, he made it on purpose, maybe to show how great he was. Picasso was a terrific artist and a clown at the same time. His "ego" was legendary. He hated Modigliani because of "found him a bit tedious, with all the drinking and the drugs" (just alcohol, more exactly, absinthe). He didn't approve of his lifestyle very much. At the end a painting by Modigliani worth as much as a Picasso, nowadays.
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