The father of uber-masculinity, Pablo Picasso, produced a series of Minotaur works. The bullfight is, of course, a key image of violent masculine energy, even in modern Spain. In his works, the bull sometimes looks tormented and some say Picasso turned to the Minotaur figure when he was facing a crisis in his marriage. But over one hundred paintings, sculptures, engravings, ceramics and tapestries certainly prove this was an ongoing obsession.
Did Picasso, proud of his monstrous sexual appetites, identify with the Minotaur as an example of virility, unquenchable desire, and domination?