Picasso Classicism http://blog.artmam.com/?p=121... The Neo-Classical figure of Venus looks to Picasso’s classicism of the early 1920s; the massive, slightly flattened curves of her body and the simple white drapery recall Picasso’s Three Women at the Spring, while the vigorous dance of the unfinished Venus and Sailor of 1926 is closer to a work like The Race