“A Dutch doctor will tell a world congress on headache which begins in London today that Pablo Picasso may have experienced bizarre visual migraine auras. Some people who suffer from migraine experience a disconcerting distortion of their vision. When they look at people or objects, they see them split into two parts, usually on the vertical plane. Others say they see just an illusion of a fractured face.” – The Guardian
SO WHAT? Picasso was dismissive of critics who saw his Cubist paintings as philosophical exercises and tried to understand them through “mathematics, trigonometry, chemistry, psychoanalysis and whatnot”. He was even more dismissive of the idea that he was an abstract artist. Picasso’s visual distortions are always poetic. – The Guardian