Pabl Pablo Picasso

In this Picasso painting, he uses sharp contrast. It portrays a woman who looks to be suffering. The artwork is distorted so the observer has to piece together the “puzzle” in some areas. The woman is covering her mouth with her hands while tears pour down her face.

The color scheme in this painting is very simplistic. Picasso makes the colors contrast and stand out so the viewer can see what exactly is going on. For example he uses the blue to show that she is crying. Without the solid blue, the viewer might not see the tears and would not understand what Picasso is trying to portray in his painting. Because of the sharp straight lines used all through this painting, the work looks very one dimensional. This is caused by the solid colors throughout and the distortion used in this artwork. It lacks foreshortening, cross hatching or any element that portrays 3 dimensions.

This painting has very asymmetric balance. Because of the amount of distortion, nothing looks the same on the painting. For example, the nose is on the far right side of the head. Also, there is only one ear present. In terms of scale this painting is very unrealistic. Picasso more or less tries to paint the woman from two different angles which can cause confusion and chaos in the artwork.
Pablo Picasso is credited with starting and perfecting the cubism movement.
He rose to the scene during the rise of modern art and his art career lasted over 70 years. Before his rise to fame, he went through a dark period, “the blue period,” in which he only painted in blue. This was when he created some of his most famous paintings. Throughout his life many people influenced his art such as mistresses, friends and random strangers. He used the famous line, “bad artist copy, good artists steal,” when asked about this. When Picasso died in 1973, he was labeled one of the great artists of all time. He had created around 13,000 paintings by the end of his career and many
masterpieces.

This is one of my favorite paintings because of its weirdness. It seems that Picasso breaks all the rules in his paintings. They might look sloppy or confusing but to me they seem to make sense. From reading about him, he seemed to be on a higher level than others. He saw something and he tried his best to let others see it. It might look odd or distorted but it’s exactly what he wanted to paint. This is what makes him so unique as an overall artists and scholar.