Historians and art critics to kindly forgive myself: in this booklet where the dazzling "poetic writings" of Picasso, the proper name of the painter is not applied to both a socially and historically identifiable individual as widely taken into account to a certain way desired. More precisely, what 'Picasso' refers only to the desire to create snatched as it is generally imposed on the artist of genius.

By enrolling in this perspective emblematic I wanted to show how, like the famous hero of Alfred Jarry, Andre Marcueil called "the Supermale" Picasso will be determined to return "picaresque" the art of the twentieth century and the end of a pike.

We owe Jarry, whom Picasso admired above all, a text that otherwise perfectly could serve as an epigraph to this kind of "imaginary portrait" is rogue Picasso picador "A brain of original truth works exactly like the stomach ostrich: everything fits well, pulverized stones and twisted pieces of iron. This phenomenon is not confused with the power of assimilation, which is of another nature. A personality does not assimilate anything, deformed; rather, transmuted, in the upstream of the hierarchy of metals. In the presence of the insurmountable -of the lady teacher work, not imitation occurs, but transformation. "

Paul Audi