Picasso was deliberately playing with perspective. One theory goes that he was doing a pisstake of classical artists faking perspective by painting half the fac

Picasso was deliberately playing with perspective. One theory goes that he was doing a pisstake of classical artists faking perspective by painting half the face from the front and half the face from the side. Another says that he was attempting to capture more of an object than an accurate rendering from a single perspective could convey, sort of a painter's equivalent of those animated GIFs that show an object from different camera angles, yielding a 3D effect.