The Blue Period (Spanish: Período Azul) is a term used to define the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1901 and 1904 when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors. These somber works, inspired by Spain and painted in Barcelona and …

Sculpture Picasso did not advertise his experiments in sculpture so much although this kind of art attracted him as he always strived to try his hand in something new.

Pablo Picasso – Blue Period: Between 1901 and mid-1904, when blue was the predominant colour in his paintings, Picasso moved back and forth between Barcelona and Paris, taking material for his work from one place to the other. For example, his visits to the Women’s Prison of Saint-Lazare in Paris in 1901–02, which provided him with …

Artwork page for ‘Weeping Woman’, Pablo Picasso, 1937 One of the worst atrocities of the Spanish Civil War was the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by the German air force, lending their support to the Nationalist forces of General Franco. Picasso responded to the massacre by painting the vast mural Guernica, and for months afterwards he made …

Pablo Picasso: Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and cocreator of Cubism.

Pablo Picasso. Picasso is also amongst the most studied artist with his paintings categorised into several key periods of his career, such as the Blue Period, the Rose Period, and times of Cubism, Surrealism and also African-inspired spells.. There is an exciting Picasso Tate Exhibition running right now!. Pablo Picasso was born in …

Pablo Picasso Biography 1. hood and years of education (1881-1900) Pablo Picasso was born in 1881, October 25 in the town Malaga (Spain, Andaluzia).

Introduction. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter, who is widely acknowledged to be the most important artist of the 20th century. A long-lived and highly prolific artist, he experimented with a wide range of styles and themes throughout his career.

The same mood pervades the well-known etching The Frugal Repast (1904), which depicts a blind man and a sighted woman, both emaciated, seated at a nearly bare table. Blindness is a recurrent theme in Picasso’s works of this period, also represented in The Blindman’s Meal (1903, the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and in the portrait of …

Artwork page for ‘Bust of a Woman’, Pablo Picasso, 1909 on display at Tate Modern. The treatment of the human figure in the Cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque is often reminiscent of sculpture. In this work, made in mid-1909, Picasso used planes of warm greys and burnt sienna to establish the bulk of the body. The shifting directions of the …