Very few artists are given the acknowledgement of being a born painter. Pablo Picasso
was deemed fully educated by age 14. At age seven he was painting like an adult, as an
adult he retained child like qualities in his works, Picasso understood the world
through his art. Art was his weapon for making himself understand, and for
understanding the world around him.
Greatly affected by the death of his friend, Carlos Casagemas, he entered his blue
period. It took six months for the reality of death to submerge in his being, and the
work that followed, labeled him a true master. For years to come there were no
vibrant colors, only more and more monochromatic blues, a reflection of his sadness
and grief. La Vie,1903, is one painting from his blue period.
Woman with Crow is the end of his mourning as the ambers and pinks ebb back into
the works of the more mature artist. He questions all the techniques of the classic
elements and moves into cubism.
Weeping Woman,1937, is the horror of the Nazi reign. Picasso wrote that everything
?screamed?, during this period of his life. He makes the emotion evoked in the
painting timeless. True to his own belief that art is introspective, he takes the subjects
and deconstructs them, showing both the profile and frontal view at once and merging
objects and emotions for which he is so well known.
?When you think of it, there are very few themes indeed. They are constantly
repeated by everyone. It must be wonderful to invent a new one.? Picasso
