Pablo Picasso - recognized genius of the 20th century, his paintings are recognizable, and the style is difficult to confuse with other artists. One of the favorite themes in the artist's work was the circus and its characters. Master loved to repeat that the true painters are Rembrandt, Giotto, he is just a clown. The most famous Picasso paintings by are sold for a lot of money, but the artist himself considered painting something like a personal diary. For his long, almost century-old life, he never ceased to create.
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Girl on the ball
"Girl on the ball" , written in 1905, one of the most legendary paintings by Picasso refers to the beginning of the pink period of the artist's work, coinciding with his move to Paris. In the master's work come new shades: light pink, red, greyish-pearl, air, which distinguishes a new period from the previous( blue).The mood also changes: if earlier the themes were chosen sad, problematic, now simple motives of joy, delight from life appear. The picture "The girl on the ball" is built on contrasts: lightness, femininity, flexibility, grace acrobatics on the ball against the stability, hardness, masculinity of the athlete on the cube. Both actors are contrasted with the background: the girl at any time will come down from the ball or move on it further, while the sad landscape with a lone horse will not change for a very long time, and maybe never again.
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Absinthe lover
" Absinthe Lover" - one of the most sensational paintings of Picasso was written in 1901, its theme was the favorite drink of the fashionable bohemian - absinthe. Although the impression of this creation is very painful, it is impossible not to note the beautifully chosen color palette: contrasting colors express the heroine's inner struggle, its struggle with the outside world, contradictions, difficulties arising on the way. From the image in the picture is loneliness and abandonment, he is angular, as if broken, pose constrained, and too large a right hand as if to fence a woman from the world, seeking solitude, protection. And only a slight sarcastic smile on the lips of the character tells us that this lady is still alive.
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Avignon girls
"Avignon girls", , painted in 1907, the picture refers to the most typical examples of cubism. It would seem that Cubism is completely irrelevant where it is necessary to portray flexible female bodies, but Picasso manages to do it in such a way that there is no dissonance when looking at the canvas. Despite the fact that the knees, faces, breasts of the girls are depicted angular, we understand that before us are the priestesses of love. The prototype for them were real girls from a brothel in the Avignon quarter in Barcelona. Initially, the painting should have been attended by other images, personifying death, but subsequently the artist left only images of women and fruits as a symbol of fertility. Here the challenge is not in the subject, not in what is depicted, but in the form, the way it is portrayed.
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Three musicians
The well-known picture of Picasso "Three musicians" is written in the style of Cubism. In clown costumes, not just musicians are depicted, the artist symbolically depicted Guillaume Apollinaire with a clarinet, Max Jacob with an accordion and himself with a violin. Heroes are as if glued to the canvas separately from each other, and the contours of their bodies seem to move in space, giving the image a volume, dynamism. Despite the apparent simplicity, the similarity with the application and a small palette of colors, the picture is certainly an outstanding work of art.
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Blue Nude
"Blue Nude" - this picture can be attributed to the most well-known canvases of Picasso, despite the fact that she is one of his early paintings( 1902)."Blue naked," as can be easily guessed by the name and one look at it, refers to the blue period of the master's work. It's hard to say what the author wanted to say about this work, whether he wanted at all: the figure of the woman in the embryo's pose is sitting with her back to the viewer. Only in color and pose can you catch a shade of despair, despair, loneliness, nakedness, not only in a direct, but figurative sense.
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Dora Maar with the cat
"Dora Maar with a cat". The artist with Dora Maar formed a bright, passionate relationship of ten years, she was his muse repeatedly. Dora can not be called gentle and fragile, her femininity is in mystery, strength, extraordinary energy. This energy was thrown out by the artist on this, perhaps, most recognizable picture of Picasso. A lady with a hat and sharp blue nails involuntarily evokes associations with representatives of the cat family, from her wails an independence, an unruly disposition. The face depicted simultaneously in the profile, and the full face with deformed nose, mouth and eyes, can not be called beautiful, but it is difficult to forget. The image of a small black cat on a woman's shoulder only emphasizes the brightness of the character, some kind of Dora Maar's aggressiveness.
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Seated woman. Maria Teresa Walter
« Seated woman. Maria Teresa Walter "- is one of Picasso's most famous canvases inspired by another muse - Maria Theresa Walter. The female figure occupies almost the entire canvas, its outline is heavy, rough and angular. The face of a naked woman expresses deep thoughtfulness. Picasso tries to show the versatility of female nature, while deliberately forgetting about the anatomy and realism of the image of the human body.
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Guernica
Guernica is almost the most recognizable picture of Picasso, mainly because of political meaning. This master not only speaks the word against the Nazi bombings of Guernica( Spain) during the Civil War, but also depicts the image of war in general, with all the tragedies and suffering. From the canvas breathes physical pain, a sense of loss, destruction, death. With all the schematic images of people, each of them is endowed with a strong emotionality.
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Girl in front of the mirror
"Girl in front of the mirror" - another very popular work of Picasso inspired by the already familiar to us Maria Teresa Walter. The main idea of the picture - the girl sees in the mirror is not quite his reflection, but something otherworldly, different. Bright contrasting colors emphasize the ambiguity of nature. Maria Theresa as if sees in the mirror her true nature, deformed, distorted, painted in bright shades, looking for new facets of herself.
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The old guitarist
"The Old Guitarist" .The most recognizable works of Picasso - for the most part, those that are written in the blue period of creativity. This picture is the brightest example. Inspiration for her was the suicide of the artist's friend, Carlos Casagemas. Cold blue color expresses melancholy, frustration, withdrawal into itself, the figure of the guitarist hunched and squeezed, clasps a big brown guitar. The size of the instrument and its color symbolically indicate that music is a way to get away from the problems of a cruel world and forget about poverty and even blindness.
