As I said in one of my previous posts, I'm going to write about art.
But today I won't deal with my favourite artist: instead I would like to show you a painting I found by chance in a Facebook page
© 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
The artist is Picasso, who painted "The Blind Man's Meal" with oils on canvas in 1903.
He is not my favourite painter, because I don't agree with his total abolition of space, which started from the so-called "African-influenced Period" in 1907 until the end of the "Crystal Cubism" in 1917, and the synthesis of the depth using multiple point of views.
Instead, I appreciate his "Blue Period and the "return of order" after the World War I, with some influences which came from the Surrealism movement.
Anyway, the first time I saw this painting, it catched my attention immediately.
In his "Blue Period", Picasso showed his great pain after the suicide of his dear friend Carlos Casagemas and his own condition of depression and impoverishment, using especially the shades of blue and green as protagonists of his artworks, the perfect colours to inspire sadness and melancholy.
He represented the world of the social outcasts, like prostitutes, beggars, poor, homeless or ill people and one of the main theme is blindness, as in this painting.
There are very few and simple elements in this scene: the sense of absence puts even more seriousness and loneliness to the man, left alone while "he holds some bread in his left hand and gropes with his right hand for a jug of wine" as Picasso himself wrote in a letter.
Picasso decided to highlight the hand, the empty plate, the jug, but in particualr the face, with that expression of resignation and silent sorrow. If you look closely, you can see that eyes, that empty eyes of a man who has given up hope of a better condition.
That is not only a condition which concerns that single man, but it's a human condition, a problem still presents in our society. We have not to abandon those who are suffering, we should try to help as much as we can, to share hopes.
That blue seems to come out of the painting, to embrace our soul, to make us feel that cold and terrible sensation of pain and undesired solitude.
But blue is the colour of the night sky full of stars, the stars we look at wondering about dreams and future.
Don't turn off those stars.
Yours, Silvia
He is not my favourite painter, because I don't agree with his total abolition of space, which started from the so-called "African-influenced Period" in 1907 until the end of the "Crystal Cubism" in 1917, and the synthesis of the depth using multiple point of views.
Instead, I appreciate his "Blue Period and the "return of order" after the World War I, with some influences which came from the Surrealism movement.
Anyway, the first time I saw this painting, it catched my attention immediately.
In his "Blue Period", Picasso showed his great pain after the suicide of his dear friend Carlos Casagemas and his own condition of depression and impoverishment, using especially the shades of blue and green as protagonists of his artworks, the perfect colours to inspire sadness and melancholy.
He represented the world of the social outcasts, like prostitutes, beggars, poor, homeless or ill people and one of the main theme is blindness, as in this painting.
There are very few and simple elements in this scene: the sense of absence puts even more seriousness and loneliness to the man, left alone while "he holds some bread in his left hand and gropes with his right hand for a jug of wine" as Picasso himself wrote in a letter.
Picasso decided to highlight the hand, the empty plate, the jug, but in particualr the face, with that expression of resignation and silent sorrow. If you look closely, you can see that eyes, that empty eyes of a man who has given up hope of a better condition.
That is not only a condition which concerns that single man, but it's a human condition, a problem still presents in our society. We have not to abandon those who are suffering, we should try to help as much as we can, to share hopes.
That blue seems to come out of the painting, to embrace our soul, to make us feel that cold and terrible sensation of pain and undesired solitude.
But blue is the colour of the night sky full of stars, the stars we look at wondering about dreams and future.
Don't turn off those stars.
Yours, Silvia
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