Picasso is threatening.
Otherwise this could be the mark of the threatened. It's dark, jagged chaos. The obvious emphasis on black and blue tips below the point of calm serenity and into a territory of loss and confusion.
On the upper portion of the picture it looks like it can be somewhat clearly divided into three different vertical, wide clusters of subjects. However these different clusters seem to be united by the bottom dwellings of the picture. The body lying at the bottom seems to connect all of the subjects at the top.
It is the faces in the picture that grab my attention first and foremost. It is a human response on my part. I, like most all others gravitate to the point of reference where I am used to getting my emotional information in my everyday life. These faces to me convey panic, terror, death and confusion.
Overall, I felt that there was a tragedy, or scandal that bound several different parties together. I notice the person lying at the bottom is holding a knife. To me that is another suggestion of crime and betrayal.
Another possibility is that of an uprising, or a threat to those at the top (panic, confusion) coming from those trampled and suppressed at the bottom (man lying with knife).
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