"Blindman's Meal"" (1903, the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and in the portrait of ""Celestina"" (1903). Infrared imagery of Picasso's 1901 painting ""The Blue Room"" reveals another painting beneath the surface. Other frequent subjects include female nudes and mothers with children. Solitary figures dominate his Blue Period works. Themes of loneliness, poverty and despair pervade the works as well. Possibly his most well known work from this period is ""The Old Guitarist."" Other major works include ""Portrait of Soler"" (1903) and ""Las dos hermanas"" (1904). Picasso's Blue Period was followed by his Rose Period. Picasso's bout with depression gradually ended, and"
"A Lady Playing the Guitar A Lady Playing the Guitar (after 1670s) is an oil on canvas painting by an unknown copyist after a work by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This painting by a follower of Vermeer was documented as authentic by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote; ""26. A LADY PLAYING THE GUITAR. B. 28. H. 31. A young lady with fresh red cheeks, wearing a white silk dress and a yellow jacket trimmed with ermine,"
"The Old Musician The Old Musician is an 1862 oil painting on canvas by French painter Édouard Manet, produced during the period when the artist was influenced by Spanish art. The painting also betrays the influence of Gustave Courbet. This work is one of Manet's largest paintings and is now conserved at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The painting is composed of seven characters in a landscape. The old musician in the center who is preparing to play the violin is Jean Lagrène, the leader of a local gypsy band. To the left is a young girl"
"He painted many still life subjects during this time, maintaining his emphasis on structure. One example of this is his 1943 work ""Blue Guitar"", which hangs in the Allen Memorial Art Museum. During his recovery he became a close friend of the cubist artist Juan Gris. He continued to work during the remainder of his life, producing a considerable number of paintings, graphics, and sculptures. Braque, along with Matisse, is credited for introducing Pablo Picasso to Fernand Mourlot, and most of the lithographs and book illustrations he himself created during the 1940s and '50s were produced at the Mourlot Studios."
"wrote: ""I had no particular painting of Picasso's in mind and even though it might help to sell the book to have one of his paintings on the cover, I don't think we ought to reproduce anything of Picasso's."" Paul Mariani, a biographer of Stevens, presented a counterpoint to these objections raised by Stevens concerning the origin of this poem stating, ""Despite his repeatedly denying it, Stevens does seem to have a particular painting in mind here: Picasso's 1903 ""The Old Guitarist"", which portrays an old man with white hair and beard sitting distorted and cross-legged as he plays his"
"Albert Museum, the artist painted over a previous picture that had not even dried yet. Pigments from the lower painting appear through cracks in the surface layer. The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso at the Art Institute of Chicago had been previously examined with visible and ultraviolet light, which had hinted at the possibility of an earlier composition. X-rays of the painting revealed that Picasso had originally painted two female figures behind the guitarist. The x-rays also penetrated far enough to reveal how Picasso had prepared the wooden panel for painting. X-rays can provide a better picture of plaster casts"
"The Man with the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar The Man with the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar (often called simply Blue Guitar) is an album by American singer-songwriter Peter Case, released in 1989. Its name is a reference to the Wallace Stevens poem ""The Man With the Blue Guitar"". Guests include Los Lobos, T-Bone Burnett, Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner and David Lindley. Writing for Allmusic, critic Brian Beatty wrote of the album ""Exceptional songs and musical guests, including Ry Cooder and members of Los Lobos and Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, make this... a worthwhile purchase..."" All songs by Peter Case"
"guitar. If Picasso attempted to portray the world of poverty and abject misery, it was because that had been his own plight as a struggling young artist in Barcelona, where he painted many pictures including this one, of the poor. The painting is almost entirely done in monochromatic blues and blue-blacks, except for the guitar itself, which is painted in a slightly warmer brown. The man is blind but, no longer seeing the world around him, he sees more deeply into the reality within."" In the poem, an unnamed ""they"" says, of the titular man, ""you do not play things"
"unless otherwise noted. Production The Man with the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar The Man with the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar (often called simply Blue Guitar) is an album by American singer-songwriter Peter Case, released in 1989. Its name is a reference to the Wallace Stevens poem ""The Man With the Blue Guitar"". Guests include Los Lobos, T-Bone Burnett, Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner and David Lindley. Writing for Allmusic, critic Brian Beatty wrote of the album ""Exceptional songs and musical guests, including Ry Cooder and members of Los Lobos and Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, make this... a worthwhile purchase..."" All"
"the Kenwood House version, Hofstede de Groot was convinced of this painting's superiority, which demonstrates the skill of the unknown copyist. Needless to say the provenance records mentioned by Hofstede de Groot pertain to the Kenwood House version. It is still unknown where the dealer ""Gooden"" acquired the painting. A Lady Playing the Guitar A Lady Playing the Guitar (after 1670s) is an oil on canvas painting by an unknown copyist after a work by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of"
"The Guitar Player (Vermeer) The Guitar Player is a circa 1672 painting by Jan Vermeer, on display in Kenwood House, London as part of the Iveagh Bequest. In 2012 Kenwood closed for renovations until autumn 2013, and the painting was on display in the National Gallery for this period, next to their own two Vermeers. It was returned to Kenwood House in late December. On February 23, 1974, the painting was stolen from Kenwood House and held for a ransom of over $1 million (US) in food to be distributed on the Caribbean island of Grenada, or else the painting"
"blue chairs/room with lamps turning on and off. At the conclusion, a sign stands alone with white letters that arrange the phrase """"Inspired by the 'One-Minute Sculptures' of Erwin Wurm"""". At certain segments of the video, one can see guitarist John Frusciante playing an orange Toronado, which is unlike his style due to the fact that he only plays vintage guitars (the Toronado being under five years of age). Frusciante later explained he was instructed to play the guitar by director Mark Romanek since it blended well with the color scheme used in the video; he also noted that he"
"painting was executed in the second half of 1901 following Picasso's successful exhibition at the Vollard gallery that June. This was at the start of his Blue period of 1901 to 1904, thought to have been occasioned by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas earlier in the year, a time when his paintings were somewhat melancholic and characterized by somber monochromatic tones in blue and green. The caricature of Picasso's friend Pere Mañach on the reverse is inscribed ""Recuerdo a Mañach en el día de su santo"", demonstrating the painting was intended as a gift for Mañach on his"
"The Musician (Bartholomeus van der Helst painting) The Musician (1662) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Bartholomeus van der Helst. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The woman is looking at the viewer and according to art historian Walter Liedtke, ""spills out of her dress"". Liedtke goes on to make this a case for considering it a genre work rather than a portrait, comparing it with other scantily clad lute players that may have influenced the painter, such as the earlier"
"any particular reason. The young boy in straw hat, meanwhile, is explicitly inspired by Antoine Watteau's ""Pierrot"". The Old Musician The Old Musician is an 1862 oil painting on canvas by French painter Édouard Manet, produced during the period when the artist was influenced by Spanish art. The painting also betrays the influence of Gustave Courbet. This work is one of Manet's largest paintings and is now conserved at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The painting is composed of seven characters in a landscape. The old musician in the center who is preparing to play the violin"
"Eugène Carrière Eugène Anatole Carrière (16 January 1849 – 27 March 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the ""Fin de siècle"" period. His paintings are best known for their brown monochrome palette. He was a close friend of the sculptor Rodin and his work influenced Picasso. Some see traces of Carrière's monochrome style in Picasso's Blue Period. He was born at Gournay-sur-Marne (Seine-Saint-Denis). He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later under Cabanel. During the Franco-Prussian War he passed some time as a prisoner in Dresden, where the art of Rubens made a lasting impression on"
"of which had been recently imported to the US, probably also based on the popularity at the time of this painting. The Musician (Bartholomeus van der Helst painting) The Musician (1662) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Bartholomeus van der Helst. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The woman is looking at the viewer and according to art historian Walter Liedtke, ""spills out of her dress"". Liedtke goes on to make this a case for considering it a genre work rather"
"determined that at least two different paintings are found beneath ""The Old Guitarist"". In 1998, researchers used an infrared camera to penetrate the uppermost layer of paint (the composition of ""The Old Guitarist"") and clearly saw the second-most composition. By using this camera, researchers were able to discover a young mother seated in the center of the composition, reaching out with her left arm to her kneeling child at her right, and a calf or sheep on the mother’s left side. Clearly defined, the young woman has long, flowing dark hair and a thoughtful expression. The Art Institute of Chicago"
"The Blue Kitchen The Blue Kitchen (Norwegian: Det blå kjøkken; dated 1913) is the title of a neo-impressionist painting by Norwegian artist Ludvig Karsten, showing a kitchen table ready for breakfast, while the morning sun is shining through the window. ""The Blue Kitchen"" is regarded among Karsten's most important paintings. It is located at the National Gallery in Oslo. In 1913 Karsten was newly married, and the couple moved from Copenhagen to the Norwegian island Hvasser. Sources differ whether ""Blue Kitchen"" is painted in Copenhagen or Hvasser. The painting was bought by art collector Christian Tetzen-Lund in 1913. In his"
"of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Much of Picasso's work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism. His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles. Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic"
"song in June 1957, inspired by two paintings by Marc Chagall. He had planned to go to the sea with Domenico Modugno, but while waiting for Modugno to show up, Migliacci started drinking wine and eventually fell asleep. He had vivid dreams, and when he woke up, he looked at the Chagall paintings (reproductions) on the wall. In ""Le coq rouge"" was a yellow man suspended in midair, while in ""Le peintre et la modelle"", half the painter's face was coloured blue. So he started penning a song about a man who dreams of painting himself blue, and being able"
"Bottle, Glass, Fork Bottle, Glass, Fork (otherwise known as Bouteille, Verre, et Fourchette) is a painting by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). It was painted in the spring of 1912, at the height of the development of analytic Cubism. ""Bottle, Glass, Fork"" is one of the best representations of the point in Picasso's career when his Cubist painting reached almost full abstraction. The analytic phase of Cubism was an original art movement developed by Picasso and his contemporary Georges Braque (1882–1963) and lasted from 1908-1912. Like ""Bottle, Glass, Fork"", the paintings of this movement are characterized by little use of color, and"
"Eugène Jansson Eugène Fredrik Jansson (18 March 1862, Stockholm – 15 June 1915, Skara) was a Swedish painter known for his night-time land- and cityscapes dominated by shades of blue. Towards the end of his life, from about 1904, he mainly painted male nudes. The earlier of these phases has caused him to sometimes be referred to as ""blåmålaren"", ""the blue-painter"". Jansson's parents belonged to a social stratum straddling the working and the lower middle class, but they were interested in art and music and ambitious for their two sons, Eugène and his younger brother Adrian. Eugène went to the"
"Courbet's ""The Stonebreakers"" (1849) and Jean-Fraçois Millet's ""The Gleaners"" (1857) depicted the hardships of workers, bringing their untold stories to the forefront. Daumier, Degas, and Picasso himself in 1901 had previously explored the subject of the laundress. The expressive pose in Picasso's 1904's ""Woman Ironing"", was certainly inspired by Degas's ""Woman Ironing"" (ca. 1884—1886). Curiously, the same pose appears in ""The Blue Room"", a 1901 Picasso painting. Idealized workers—portrayed as simple, strong souls that symbolized purity and virtue— were a large focus of Picasso's Blue Period. While these social, economic, and political complexities formed Picasso's sympathies, perceptions, and expressions, many"
"by which time the artist had started to sign his work ""Picasso""; before he had signed ""Pablo Ruiz y Picasso"". Picasso's Blue Period (1901–1904), characterized by sombre paintings rendered in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colours, began either in Spain in early 1901, or in Paris in the second half of the year. Many paintings of gaunt mothers with children date from the Blue Period, during which Picasso divided his time between Barcelona and Paris. In his austere use of colour and sometimes doleful subject matter – prostitutes and beggars are frequent subjects – Picasso"
"of the songs on the album, ""Old Blue Car,"" was nominated for a Grammy Award. Robert Palmer chose the album as the No. 1 release for 1986 in his year-in-review wrap-up for ""The New York Times"". In 1989, Case released a second solo album, ""The Man With the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar,"" this time with the help of artists like David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, Ry Cooder, and Benmont Tench. While not a major commercial success, the album was a favorite of critics and other musicians: Bruce Springsteen told ""Rolling Stone"" magazine that he was listening to Peter Case"
"by Picasso in his Le Bateau-Lavoir studio at 13 rue Ravignan in Paris, between the late spring and early summer of that year. A pen and ink sketch heightened with gouache, and signed and dated by Picasso, preceded the oil painting; it is now conserved at the Neubury Coray collection, in Ascona, Switzerland. The portrait in oils has been described by Luiz Marques, professor of art history at Unicamp, as exemplary of ""the blue period, to which it fully belongs."" It has been called the last important work of the blue period, although Palau i Fabre says that it is"
"The Accordionist The Accordionist is a 1911 painting by Pablo Picasso. As stated by the title, the painting is meant to portray a man playing an accordion. The division of three-dimensional forms into a two-dimensional plane indicate that the painting is in the style of analytic cubism, which was developed by Picasso and Georges Braque between 1907 and 1914. The onset of cubism is possibly due to Picasso and Braque rebelling against centuries of traditional, realistic art that imitates the natural world. In earlier stages of analytic cubism, such as Picasso's ""Carafe, Jug and Fruit Bowl"", Picasso begins to break"
"Blue Period (album) Blue Period (PRLP 140) is a 1953 10"" LP album by Miles Davis, his second released by Prestige Records, recorded over the course of two 1951 recording sessions at New York's Apex Studio. ""Bluing"" and ""Out of the Blue"", two Davis compositions, were recorded on October 5, 1951, at the same session as the material for his first album ""The New Sounds"" (PRLP 124). ""Blue Room"", composed by Rodgers and Hart, was recorded earlier that year, at the same January 17 recording session as the three tracks used on the various artists LP ""Modern Jazz Trumpets"" (PRLP"
"the guitarist and a sense of spirituality. The large, brown guitar is the only significant shift in color found in the painting; its dull brown, prominent against the blue background, becomes the center and focus. The guitar comes to represent the guitarist’s world and only hope for survival. This blind and poor subject depends on his guitar and the small income he can earn from his music for survival. Some art historians believe this painting expresses the solitary life of an artist and the natural struggles that come with the career. Therefore, music, or art, becomes a burden and an"
"L'Oiseau bleu (Metzinger) L'Oiseau bleu (also known as The Blue Bird and Der Blaue Vogel) is a large oil painting created in 1912–1913 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956); considered by Guillaume Apollinaire and André Salmon as a founder of Cubism, along with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. ""L'Oiseau bleu"", one of Metzinger's most recognizable and frequently referenced works, was first exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants in the spring of 1913 (cat. no. 2087), several months after the publication of the first (and only) Cubist manifesto, ""Du «Cubisme»"", written by Jean Metzinger and Albert"
"sentimental by the English Modernist movement, his experimentation with Symbolism and Expressionism drew respect from the European Modernists, notably the young Pablo Picasso, who echoed ""Hope's"" intentionally distorted features and broad sweeps of blue in ""The Old Guitarist"" (1903–1904). Despite Watts's fading reputation at home, by the time of his death in 1904 ""Hope"" had become a globally recognised image. Reproductions circulated in cultures as diverse as Japan, Australia and Poland, and Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, displayed a reproduction in his Summer White House at Sagamore Hill. By 1916, ""Hope"" was well-known enough in the United States"
"their ways to draw in men. Old Man - Painted by the famous El Greco (1541 – 7 April 1614), this oil painting produced in Spain was completed around the year 1604. This Spanish portrait of this old man during the Late Renaissance resembles the stress this time put on many people. Having painted various styles of Christ and other religious figures, Greco this time portrays what seems to be himself as this old man. It is not proven that this is a portrait of Greco, but the characteristics in the face and style of his cloths give good indication"