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Considering the role, that the guitar played in the cubist phase of Picasso and Braque, the rocking version of Tamuna Sirbiladze's transforming style of painting has a special connotation. (Picasso's 'Guitar' series from 1912 to 1914 are seen by art historians as the definitive transition from Analytic to Synthetic Cubism.) Sirbiladze's bent and broken representation of the guitar player, whose limbs are entangling with his instrument, is building up slowly in the viewer, but other masks are emerging too. The painting to this image (from 2010) is a late highlight of Sirbiladze's expressive figurations against figuration.