A Rhetorical Analysis on ‘Blue period series’ By Pablo Picasso
‘From work to text’ by Rolland Barthes gives an initiative to look at a piece of writing, photograph, literature piece, painting, sculpture et cetera from a different way, in which the piece is analyzed as a work and as a text. Simply to state, something is ‘a work’ if it is concrete and occupies some space in book (in a library for an instance). It is a finished and countable object. And a text on the other hand is a “methodological field, which is only experienced only when working on it, in production.” A work is believed to contain number of meanings hidden on it, which are found on being read. So texts remain inside the works and diverse readers get to perceive it in diverse circumstances.
The word ‘text’ as derived from classical Latin word texo refers to weaving, entwining and constructing a complex entity. Through these meanings, what can be traced is, text is a woven, intertwined and complex object to be read and analyzed. It means to see how knitwear is knitted by dismantling itself, symbolically a text. And a work is knitwear already knitted that occupies some space, solidified and final.
Here, this article describes ‘Blue Period’ a series of monochromatic paintings by Pablo Picasso, as a work and as a text. Pablo Picasso is an avant-garde painter, sculptor artist known for his uniquely painted- modern paintings. He was one of the pioneers who broke new ground for cubism, later to be discussed hugely as philosophical agendas and literature as well. From 1901 to 1904, a series of paintings came into life, all of them rendered in blue and dark green occasionally warmed by other colors. The characters and subject matter of paintings were starkly stern, doleful, gaunt, austere, and mournful and so on. Most of the characters were recluses, prisoners, poverty stricken, prostitutes, beggars, drunk or the characters of melancholies or hopelessness. Their faces, positions, motions as presented were always unsmiling as if they were being haunted,
The word ‘text’ as derived from classical Latin word texo refers to weaving, entwining and constructing a complex entity. Through these meanings, what can be traced is, text is a woven, intertwined and complex object to be read and analyzed. It means to see how knitwear is knitted by dismantling itself, symbolically a text. And a work is knitwear already knitted that occupies some space, solidified and final.
Here, this article describes ‘Blue Period’ a series of monochromatic paintings by Pablo Picasso, as a work and as a text. Pablo Picasso is an avant-garde painter, sculptor artist known for his uniquely painted- modern paintings. He was one of the pioneers who broke new ground for cubism, later to be discussed hugely as philosophical agendas and literature as well. From 1901 to 1904, a series of paintings came into life, all of them rendered in blue and dark green occasionally warmed by other colors. The characters and subject matter of paintings were starkly stern, doleful, gaunt, austere, and mournful and so on. Most of the characters were recluses, prisoners, poverty stricken, prostitutes, beggars, drunk or the characters of melancholies or hopelessness. Their faces, positions, motions as presented were always unsmiling as if they were being haunted,