Narrator: Imagine you’re inside this painting. What kinds of sounds would you hear?
Curator, Anne Umland: I don't hear talking. What I do hear is the sound of water…
Hi, my name's Anne Umland. I'm a curator here at the Museum of Modern Art. The title of this work is called Three Women at the Spring and it was made by Pablo Picasso.
Narrator: A spring is a place where people would gather to get water. I don't know about you, but when I look at this painting, I can't really see a spring.
Anne Umland: A hint that I think Picasso purposely gives you is if you look in the very center of the picture, three hands create almost a circle around the mouth of a water jug. And if you look right under the top center hand, you can see little brush strokes of black paint that Picasso's used that suggest—just suggest a bit—the idea of running water.
One of the things I notice looking a lot at this painting is how all the feet just seem to be dissolving. And then all across the bottom, in fact, you can see drips and all these beautiful, watery effects. It’s like if you stand in a puddle and look at how your foot or shoe looks underwater. It gets that same blurry kind of dissolve effect.