Through the Labyrinth: Picasso and the Minotaur as Mirror of Self and Society

The Minotaur is a mythical creature from ancient Greek mythology, characterized as having the body of a man and the head of a bull. Throughout the 1930s, this mythological hybrid of man and bull became a recurring symbol in Pablo Picasso’s art, embodying the conflict between primal urges and societal norms, violence intertwined with vulnerability, and t…