Pablo Picasso in the Picasso Museum, Barcelona - 2
This is the second post of the Picasso Museum, you can see the first one here
The Blue Period:
In the autumn 1901, while staying in Paris for the second time, Picasso fell into a period of deep introspection triggered by the suicide of his friend Carles Casagemas, which formally marked the beginning of his so-called Blue Period. Tinged with an intense, omnipresent blue in consonance with the artist's state of mind, most of the works from that time, have marginalised individuals as their protagonists, sometimes doubled into themselves, sometimes with signs of cold, hunger, desperation or illness marked on their bodies, through which Picasso seems to want to draw up a symbolic record of human misery in all its forms.
Female Nude, 1903, (oil on canvas)
The Dead Woman, 1903, (oil on canvas)
Interlude in Pink:
The works Picasso produced in 1905 show that the artist had entered a new period, in which varied, intense and warm pink tones had gained ground.
Madame Canals, 1905, (oil and charcoal on canvas)
Head of a Young Woman, 1906, (oil on canvas)
Woman and Child by the Sea, 1902, (oil on panel)
The works Picasso produced in 1905 show that the artist had entered a new period, in which varied, intense and warm pink tones had gained ground.
Forms of Desire:
Many of these images are openly pornographic and Picasso drew them on the calling cards of the business run by his friends Carles and Sebastia Junver Vidal, undoubtedly as youthful pranks.
Carles Casagemas Naked, 1903, (pen and ink and blue pencil on an advertising postcard)
Many of these images are openly pornographic and Picasso drew them on the calling cards of the business run by his friends Carles and Sebastia Junver Vidal, undoubtedly as youthful pranks.
Reclining Nude, with Frontal Gaze, 1902-03, (pen and ink and wash on paper)
On the Road to Cubism:
Blanquita Suarez, 1917, (oil on canvas)
Jaume Sabartes with Ruff and Bonnet, 1939, (oil on canvas)
Pigeons:
From 9 to 16 September 1957, Picasso took a break from analysing and interpreting Las Meninas (post to follow) and focused instead on the dovecote on the balcony in his studio. He always considered this group of works as part of Las Meninas series.
From 9 to 16 September 1957, Picasso took a break from analysing and interpreting Las Meninas (post to follow) and focused instead on the dovecote on the balcony in his studio. He always considered this group of works as part of Las Meninas series.
The pigeons, 1957, (oil on canvas)
The pigeons, 1957, (oil on canvas)
The pigeons, 1957, (oil on canvas)
His Blue Period and his Interlude in Pink were such cool periods. So I wonder why he moved from a certain market into a very uncertain market. A change in his own preferences? Or what he saw as a modernising market?
ReplyDeleteI too, like those two periods, hels, particularly the Blue one - it's always been one of my favourites. I think he probably moved on because he was constantly experimenting, trying out new things, just kept moving in his creating. I just saw an exhibition of 20th century modern art, and they had him down as unclassifiable, which he is true - he just kept moving not settling to any movement.
DeleteHello Eriene,
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that "Madame Canals" and "Head of a Young Woman, 1906" were by the same artist in no time. They look different (one perhaps more simple geometric, a la cubism) but they're also quite similar.
Cubism is something I really don't like esthetically. It was a reaction to the horrors of the world, the mechanisation of death, the ascendency of science and atoms, and artists were trying to reframe art and the way they saw the world into this new paradigm. You can't look at "Gored Horse" without appreciating the something about the anxiety of that time. To that extent, I find it moving.
Thanks for the post.
Yes, it's true, Liam, they are so different, and yet done a year apart. Head of a Young Woman has always been one of my favourites.
DeleteAs to Cubism, I too have a complicated response. Emotionally, the paintings don't do much for me, I don't have much of an emotional response to them. But, intellectually, I like them, I like looking at them, trying to figure them out, to understand them. Does that make sense?
Thanks for your comment.