Meet the Artwork: Head of a Woman

Have you ever heard the name Pablo Picasso before? When most people think of Picasso, they picture faces with the eyes, nose and mouth in unusual places. But why would an artist make a face that didn't look like a regular face?

Meet Head of a Woman. Pablo Picasso made this artwork in 1958. If you look carefully, you'll see that the woman in the artwork has two eyes on this side of her head...


...and two more eyes on the other side of her head. And they're all looking from different directions!



Picasso wanted to make an artwork that would show a woman's head from more than one direction at once. Think about this: if you are looking at someone's head, you can only see the front, or the side, or the back, but not all three at the same time.

Picasso used his imagination to show several views of the same head at a time. Imagine if you could see in all of those directions at once!

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