Was Picasso Blind
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Was picasso blind. According to widewalls picasso s blue period reflects his experiences of instability and poverty demonstrated in the many representations of beggars prisoners and blind people. Pablo picasso was born on october 25 1881 in málaga spain. Celebrate what would have been the art legend s 137th birthday with these surprising facts.
Picasso s adult relationships were complicated however and during his life he had two wives many mistresses four children and eight grandchildren. Pablo picasso spent time volunteering at hospitals and became paranoid terrified of going blind it was the most common disease at the time. Picasso knew rojas s story from his adolescentyears if not earlier.
The blue period of picasso is the period between 1900 and 1904. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century he is known for co founding the cubist movement the invention of constructed sculpture the co invention of collage and for the wide variety of styles. Picasso engulfed the region of the eye in a dark blue shadow in hispaintings of the blind a characteristic that can be considered an archetypicalstylistic feature of the blue period.
Pablo picasso was especially influenced by a visit to the st. 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. Pablo ruiz picasso 25 october 1881 8 april 1973 was a spanish painter sculptor printmaker ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in france.
The minotaur was never blind in classical mythology. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen. This heavily influenced his paintings of the blue period.
Pablo picasso was the son of josé ruiz blasco a professor of drawing and maria picasso lópez. 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.
Picasso like goya before him is celebrating the power the muscularity. 3 p288 the cause of the atrophic orbit of the old guitarist also remainsobscure. Painting is a blind man s profession.
