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He found meaning in their local codes and pantheistic ways with culture and religion, and how they perceived honorability, which didn’t depend on the sanction of the high spheres of any remote State or Church, but on their ability to survive in such a dramatic locality. As an insider-outsider, he saw himself in the Sisyphean task of those contrabandists from the desolate peaks of the Catalan Pyrenees. Picasso was trying to fulfill his first important commission in Paris thanks to the American siblings Leo and Gertrude Stein, based in Paris and aware and educated both in the French (based on a theory of “taste”) and German art (more tolerant to particularities and new developments) traditions. The stay set him to create the most transformative painting of the twentieth century, Les demoiselles d’Avignon, so radical in its “fractured glass” style that nobody seemed to be ready for it… until everybody was. Picasso produced seven large paintings, a dozen medium-size ones, drawings, watercolors, and carvings during his stay. As one of the marginalized jesters he had already painted, young Picasso decided to explore new ways no matter the reaction. It was the moment that transformed the painter and eventually modern painting.
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Picasso discovered an intensity new to him that naturalism lacked. Perspective didn’t exist in the Romanesque period, and representations were schematic, relying on symbols to integrate other meanings: expressive eyes, fire, fish. Picasso also found a 12th-Century wooden sculpture of the Virgin, an expressive Madonna with big, painted eyes. Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812), oil on canvas by J.M.W. Appreciation for simple gestures was also genuine. Conversations were straightforward and lacked coveted interests. All of a sudden, life seemed simple, devoid of the superfluous glittering of the big city. There, in Gósol, known for its smugglers, Picasso made acquaintances with local contrabandists who explained to him their life among legendary peaks such as the Pedraforca and those from Cadí and Moixeró. In 1905, a 24-year-old artist who had decided to leave Barcelona for Paris at the turn of the century in a quest for authentic self-expression, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, visited a remote town in the Catalan Pyrenees with her couple at the time, Fernande Olivier.