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Picasso Paintings, Prints, and Posters |
The Old Guitarist
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Dream
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Paysage Mediterraneen
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Enter Gallery
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Gallery Description
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was probably the most influential and successful artist of the 20th century. As the son of a professor of art, Picasso's talent for drawing was recognized at an early age. Throughout his life, he experimented with nearly all of the avant-garde styles prevailing at that time. For Picasso, the meaning of art was to be derived from other works of art, and not directly from nature. He moved from his “blue period” during which he used the color blue in all his work of art to depict romance, to “rose period” where he used lighter and warmer colors that had an underlying spiritual loneliness and lyrical melancholy. Soon he discovered the cubism style, whose foundations he laid along with Georges Braque, but it soon beamce too dogmatic and formalized for him. He then started including certain aspects of surrealism in his work. He brought in such unique ideas as the use of the double image to create a shifting frame of reference and the idea of one object being metamorphosed into another. Yet another change in Picasso's style is evident in more somber and less fanciful still life, urban views, and portraits he executed while remaining in Paris during World War II.
He displayed a lifelong ability to assimilate aesthetic ideas and to work in a variety of styles. Picasso's work of the 1950s and '60s consisted for the most part of a reiteration of the themes and styles he had developed previously, although he never stopped experimenting with new materials and forms of expression. At the time of his death, he was universally recognized as the foremost artist of his era.
We have brought for you some of the famous Picasso paintings in our gallery in high quality but affordable print and poster surfaces.
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Tuesday, May, 13 th
2008
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