Malageuño and professed atheist, Pablo Picasso, displayed ‘spiritual sensibilities’ in his art, at least according to a new exhibition in Burgos Cathedral. The exhibition, entitled “Biblical Roots,” opened on March 2nd, and explores the biblical essence and Christian origins present in 44 of Picasso’s works.
Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, explained at the opening ceremony, that half a century after the artist’s death, “one of the least examined dimensions of Pablo Picasso is his radical exploration of transcendence”. And though the artist declared he had no faith, the Cardinal felt “he never abandoned the symbolic foundation of biblical and Christian tradition”.
Rather the Bible was for Picasso a “profound structure” of his sensibility, “an inner interpretive key forged in the sensory experience of the liturgy and the sacred Catholic imagery of his childhood.” He went on to suggest that in many of Picasso’s works, “the body of Christ becomes an archetype of human suffering”.
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PIcture above: Picasso’s Crucifixion