PORTUGAL
FRANCE
He was born on 25th October 1881,
in Málaga, Spain
In 1900 he moved to París.
There he had lots of economic
problems. His painting of this
time show a hopless world, full
of sick people and beggars. This
period is known as the “blue
period” because it was the
main colour used. It finished in
1904.
The cold, hunger and
sadness seem to torture
these characters. The
blue colour emphasizes
this sensation.
Pobres a la orilla del
mar,Poor people by
the seaside
1902,
National Gallery
Washington, USA
La vida(Life)
1903,
Museum of Art,
Cleveland, USA
La planchadora
(Woman with an
iron )
1904,
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, Nueva York, USA
In 1904, the main tone was
warmer
and
the
topics
became more optimistic and
hopeful:
harlequins,
circus
scenes, young models, flowers,
etc. It is the “pink period”,
that will lead to the cubism.
Acróbat and
tight-rope walker,
1905,
Pushkin Museum,
Moscow, Russia
Acrobats family
with a monkey
1905,
Konstmuseum,
Göteborg, Sweden
The figure on the left
repeats
the
same
gestures than the one
on the right: It seems
that it is duplicating in
the mirror.
Dos desnudos
(two nuded ),
1906,
Museum of Moderm
Art, Nueva York, USA
1907 is for Picasso a decisive year
in which there are important
transformations in his artistic
development. His meeting with
the iberian art from ancient times
and the archaic African art, his
friendship with Braque and the
creation of “Señoritas de Aviñón”
will suppose an ending for previous
stages and the beginning of a new
spatial conception.
Las
señoritas
de
Aviñón,
1907,
Museum of
Moderm Art,
Nueva York,
USA
Fábrica de ladrillos en Horta de Ebro, Brick factory
1909, Ermitage Museum, San Petersburgo, Russia
Clarinete y violín,
1913,Clarinet and violin
Ermitage Museum, San
Petersburgo, Russia
After World War 1st in France
there was a certain conservative
movement. Picasso got married to
a Russian dancer and there was a
return to a neoclassical art style
with
a
noticeable
academic
perfection. But the genius painter,
always
disconcerting,
painted
traditional paintings as the same
time that innovator ones.
There is an evident sense
of humour, especially
considering that he could
have
represented
himself with his friends,
the pooets s Max Jacob
and Apollinaire.
Los tres
músicos, The
three musicians
1921,
Philadelphia Museum
of Art, Philadelphia,
USA
The
figures
are
distorted violently and
some organs reresent
corporal shapes. The
figure on the right is
from his friend Ramón
Pichot, who had died
recently.
La danza, The
dance
1925,
Tate Gallery, London, UK
At the beginning of the 30s
Picasso
restarted
with
determination
the
bullfighting
topic.But he didn’t face it from
the optimistic side only but he
emphasised what remains in this
show from the bloody rituals from
the ancient times.The bull meant
the instinctive strength in Nature
.Love and death are linked.
His
liking
to
the
Republic
Government was more evident when
he accepted painting a great one for
the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic
in the Universal Exhibition in Paris
1937.
Picasso chose the topic of the
bombing by the Nazy planes to the
defenceless vasque town of Guernica.
The iconography shows the freedom
destroyed by the brutality in Franco
regime.
Guernica,
1937, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,
Madrid, España
In his last decades, he created lots of
paintings, full of strength and
a
skilful technique. He dominated the
topic of the artist and the model,
referring to the love power of the
look that overcomes the impact of
old Age. The series that tribute
other important painters from the
past, gain another meaning.
Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973