What is your interpretation or explanation of this painting?

[candylover]

The painting is from Picasso. Media URL: http://www.google.com/imgres?q=pablo+picasso%27s+painting&hl=en&sa=X&gbv=2&biw=1366&bih=667&tbm=isch&tbnid=6ZT_mGtwRJg45M:&imgrefurl=http://entertainmentnewsx.blogspot.com/2011/09/pablo-picasso-pablo-picasso-paintings.html&docid=tr8pWugiA111mM&imgurl=http
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[Buenchico]

For anyone who'd prefer a clickable link:
http://1.bp.blogspot....1600/picasso%2B02.jpg

What do I make of it?
Well, it's a pierrot playing a clarinet, a harlequin playing a guitar and a monk singing from a songsheet. Jazz, anyone?

[anneasquith]

cubist ? colourful, busy,squares.

[Cowtipper]

Is this a Rorschach test? I see three butterflies. Otherwise I think its what Buen said.

[Zhukov]

Im impressed..it must be worth an absolute fortune..where does it hang?

Guernica is my personal favourite by Picasso

[NOX]

Personally I think the most striking thing about it is the way that the performers also form part of the furniture they are sitting on etc. To me that implies that there has to be a balance between the creative and the mundane for either to effectively exist.
I don't really like the painting and if that's the case struggle often to see a meaning- I'm more of a Dali man myself.

[Buenchico]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Musicians