PABLO PICASSO

 



 Weeping Woman 1937

 

SUBJECT MATTER

The subject matter is cubism, the feeling and emotion it convoy is sadness since the painting is called the weeping woman it obviously a woman who is weeping or crying. The painting has a lot if different shapes such as triangles circles rectangles diamond shapes.

 

TECHNIQES

The art work is painted, I think Picasso used medium or small brushes because you can see a lot of shapes and angles small brushes and help paint edges. The consistency of the paint is thick. The artwork creates an illusion that some forms are further away, the painting looks 3D the use of colour is exaggerated. The texture seems to me rough, the composition you can see so many dramatic angles.

ARTIST CAREER

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Picasso 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973 was a Spanish painter, sculptor printmaker ceramicist  stage designer poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement the invention of constructed sculpture.

 

WAR

During the Second World War Picasso remained in Paris while the Germans occupied the city. Picasso's artistic style did not fit the Nazi ideal of art, so he did not exhibit during this time. He was often harassed by the Gestapo. During one search of his apartment, an officer saw a photograph of the painting Guernica. "Did you do that?" the German asked Picasso. "No," he replied, "You did".

 

Pablo Picasso died on 8 April 1973 in Mougins, France