Picasso Flashcards
Carles Casegemas
met in 1899 in Barcelona, poet/worldly; depression/ heroin/suicide 1901; infatuated with Germaine, and shot at her but rebuffed followed by his suicide by pistol; initiated blue period climaxing in La Vie 1903 incl image of Casegemas
Two Sisters
closely related to La Vie - composition, ambiguous architectural background; resembles Saint-Lazare prison
Germaine (Pichot)
aka Laure Florentin laundress/model, rebuffed Casegemas, subsequent liaison with Picasso; figure in many paintings with altered appearance for effect; first long relationship for Picasso; died in poverty 1946
The Burial of Casagemas 1901
sexual allusions but religious overtones - note Picasso’s fascination with data, esp suicide: Casagemas, also friend/artist Horns Guell (& Van Gogh), Gauguin attempt
Paul Gaugin
confronted the problem of modern art - society that values fact - not emotion; strongest influence on PP blue period; confronted social alienation, sexual mores, loss of spirituality; stockbroker abandoned life family to move utopia Tahiti; Homage to Gauguin 1903
Alfred de Vigny
poet/writer 1797-1863, poets are presented as predestined to rejection, suffering suicide. Picassos preoccupation of Bohemian artist relationship to society; inspired Christ Montmartre the suicide - on balcony, contemplating suicide
Les demoiselle d’Avignon
1907; 5 figures devolve from left to right into demonic masked figures; primitive masks
Don Jose Ruiz Blasco
father of Picasso
La Vie - woman/child on the right
replaced painter original figure painted over; mother and child -> personifies compassion as the antidote to human suffering - common in blue period especially; perhaps harbinger of death, perhaps dangers facing life of the couple; nude and robed women may represent 2 divergent courses of life -
Conchita
Picasso sister died at age 7, d1895
Bearded man
replaced in painting La Vie by robed woman
