Picasso

In class, we have discussed many varieties of styles and forms of paintings in the semester. The styles and forms that we referred to are impressionism, cubism and abstraction in discussion of modern painting. The above styles are also relevant to the works of art in twentieth century. For this research paper, I will write about the styles and materials that were displayed in Pablo Picasso's works.

Pablo Picasso was born in Spain on October 25th, 1881. He was so well trained that by the age of nine he began to paint and sketch. When he was 15, he was already technically skilled in drawing and painting. Pablo Picasso was probably the most famous artist of the twentieth century. During his artistic career, he created thousands of works, not only painting but also in sculptures, prints and ceramics, using all kind of materials.

In 1901 to 1904, Pablo Picasso initiated his first truly original style which is call the "Blue Period" (1901 - 1904). The "Blue Period" depicts forlorn people in shade of blue, evoking feelings of sadness and alienation. For example, In "The Old Guitar Player" (1903), Pablo Picasso emphasized the guitar player's poverty and position as a social outcast, the figure with a black outline. The guitar player is compressed within the canvas and trapped within the frame just as he is trapped by his poverty. Although Pablo Picasso under scared the squalor of his figure of "Blue Period", neither clothing their environment conveys a specific time and place. The "Blue Period" dominated Pablo Picasso's paintings during this period. Influences include photographs with a bluish tinge, poetry that stressed the color blue in its imagery. Pablo Picasso found blue particularly appropriate for his subject matter because it is a color associated with pensive.

In 1908 - 1912, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque had developed "Analytical Cubism" into an entirely new means of pictorial expression. In the initial stage, known as "Analytical Cubism", objects were deconstructed into their components. For example, In "Girl with a Mandolin" (1910) Pablo Picasso begins the series. In these paintings a rigid system and precisely structured figurative language are applied to individual objects, and indeed to three different persons, each of whom are shown in an individual manner without the artist having to make the slightest sacrifice in his method of paining. The image of their person is constructed in a different way each time, with facets and superimposed planes that certainly do not represent space in the traditional manner, but give strong impression