View Picasso Paintings Blue Period Background. In his early twenties, the young pablo picasso began to tint his paintings a pale, cold blue. Early work, blue period, rose period, african period, cubism, neoclassicism, surrealism, and later work.

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In a portrait that's as imposing as its subject, gertrude stein was created near the end of picasso's rose period. The blue period of picasso is the period between 1900 and 1904, when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and although picasso himself later recalled, i started painting in blue when i learned of casagemas's death, art historian helene seckel has written. I started painting in blue when i learned of casagemas's death.

Pablo picasso paintings are so famous today, that he often serves as a synonym for the best artist.

At artranked.com find thousands of paintings categorized into thousands of categories. If you apply blues and greens to a face that is slightly turned with downward eyes, you get a very gloomy look. Critics have often agreed with him, even though many of these pictures this painting was shocking even to picasso's closest artist friends both for its content and its execution. With a career that spanned 79 years.