Picasso’s Rose Period: Cheery Colors And Very Thin Models
There is something about a painting that captures the imagination. While film can be revealing, a painting artist enchants, interpreting mood and shaping the image. Many people realize that great anniversary gifts are portraits. Painters from all eras made portraits a part of their craft. Pablo Picasso painted many stunning portraits in many different styles. He created a lot of self portraits and an abundance of figurative work. His painting of Girl in Chemise is a moody study of a waif like girl.
Pablo Diego Jos Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Mara de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santsima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, better known simply as Picasso, went through many styles during his long life. These styles are known in criticism as periods. In his early years his works are often considered his modern period. His first well known period is his blue period which started about’01. It was a somber period in which his paintings were dominated by blues and greens. Some believe this period was influenced by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas. Picasso created a couple tributes to Casagemas, and a lot of his models during this period where street urchins and prostitutes. Picasso revealed the desperation and sorrow of the streets. These subjects may have simply reflected his inner demons.
His next major acknowledged period was his rose period. It was during this period that he painted The Boy With A Pipe. The Boy With The Pipe was one of the priciest paintings ever sold. One of the first paintings during the rose period was of the model known only as Madeline and titled The Girl In A Chemise. The picture is a transitional paintingwith the background and mood similar to that of the blue period, and showing the beginning of the rose tones in the girls face and skin. Some critics classify this as one of the last paintings of the blue period. Many critics classify it one of the early paintings of the rose period. The painting shows a woman presenting a side profile while her body faces the artist. The Chemise falls gently exposing a thin waif like girl beneath. The skin and exposed cheek, even in profile, seems thin and drawn. Some art critics see the Rose period as Picasso’s return to a more cheerful mood and romanticism. In the painting A Girl In A Chemise looks like the only cheerful aspect is the introduction of the rose tones. Madeline shows up in several of Picasso’s paintings, and always seems to have a sadness about her.
Picasso experimented with other styles of work. Picasso left the Rose colors behind and entered an African period which showed early signs of his cubism period. Picassowent from cubism into classicism and surrealism. Through out all his workhedisplayed a passion for figures and portraits.
Picassochanged the face of the art world. Picasso was one of the first major celebrity artists of the twentieth century. His development and styles can be traced and studied. Every distinctive style holds up by itself. The Girl In A Chemise is an evocative work that marks his transition out of the blue period and raises interest in the thin model Madeline.
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