Pablo Picasso-Art Periods

• Primarly defined by color use; lackluster, lifeless colors like black and white, various shades of faded blue, and occasionally metallic shades of silver and gold
• Reflected the "oriental" and "not colorful" landscape of Spain that he returned to: the stars, the earth, and even the people's clothes

• Illustrated experiences with poverty by depicting street urchins, the homeless, drunks, and prostitutes
• Reflects his difficulty sellling his paintings during the Blue Period and making a living:
• underrated, little recognition for his art, extreme poverty as a result
• Close friend Carlos Casagemas commits suicide; profound affect on art:
• "I started painting in blue when I learned of Casagemas's death"

• Marked by light,warm colors and romantic, gentle lines
• not only just pink: blues, reds/pinks, greens/ and yellow--colors that showed artistic emotion and vitality rather than sorrow
• Period of massive production
• Some of the most realstic works were created during this time, "when he contented himself with seeing things as anybody did"(21)

• Charmed by the circus and firsthand interaction with performers at Cirque Medrano; several drawings/paintings of harlequins
• One of the much happier times of his life; his art was starting to become famous, gets his own studio in Montmarte, a lover (Fernande Oliver), a new lifestyle:
• "...he let himself go, living in the gaiety of things seen, the gaiety of French sentimentality"(20).

Cubism Period (1909-1912)

• flattened planes, geometric shards, dividing subject into cube or random sections, created shape by line--really abstract looking 3D forms
• emphasis on the head, face, and human physique in general
• no evident "ending" point; each part connected with each other somehow (one corner is just as important as the other)

• Began with Spanish landscape/architechture-"nature and man opposed in Spain"
• Difficulty to show what he only saw rather than what the world thinks it sees
• war during 1910's-seeing camo truck: "it is we who made it, that is cubism"(11)
• "So the great war continued but was nearing its end...it only had the appearance of stopping. So Picasso's struggle continued but for the moment it apperaed to have been won by himself for himself and by him for the world"(29).
• Several friends left to serve in WW1-lonliness
• Developed cubism with George Braque-influenced by faceted abstract style

Girl with Bare feet (1895)

Early Art/Influences

Blue Period (1901-1904)

Born in Málaga, Spain, on October 25, 1881

"He went back to Spain in 1902 and the painting known as his blue period was the result of that return. The sadness of Spain and the monotony of the Spanish coloring, after the time spent in Paris, struck him forcibly upon his return there"(5).

Mother-Doña Maria Picasso y Lopez

Father- Don José Ruiz Blasco- artist and teacher; Picasso's first as a young child

Younger Sister Lola-subject of early oil paintings, died at 7 from diptheria

"The Tragedy"

Art style

Awful student, but performed so well on entrance exam for Barcelona's School of Fine Arts that he was allowed to enroll at 14 years old in 1895

"The Old Guitarist"-1903 to 1904

Moved back and forth from Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madird to Barcelona between 1896-1899; also moved back and forth form Spain and France several times

Influence/Connections to Personal Life

Tired of being limited to the classic ideas; inspired by a group of intellectual radicals and anarchists at "El Quatre Gats" in 1899

"Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying...for himself and for the others, because had nothing to help him..."(22)

Rose/Harlequin Period (1904-1906)

"Picasso little by litte was more and more French and this started the rose or harlequin period. Then he emptied himself of this, the gentle poetry of France and the cirucs..."(7).

"Girl in a Chemise" (1904)

Art Style:

"Boy with a Pipe" (1905)

Personal Experiences/Influences:

"Portrait of Gertrude Stein" (1905)

"He commenced the long struggle not to express what he could see but not to express the things he did not see, that is to say the things everybody is certain of seeing but which they do not really see"(19).

Art Style:

"Acrobat and Young Harlequin" (1905)

Personal Experiences/Influences

what's he saying?

although the people

themselves don't

change throughout

generations, the surroundings/

background changes-send a message to the world

about what's happening around them

"Guernica"-(1936)

"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907)

Pablo Picasso-Art Periods

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