Emma Saskowski Mrs. Reaves Composition II 18 October 2017 I’m Feeling Blue As Pablo Picasso once said, “Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.” Picasso proved this to be true because he himself used specific colors in his palette depending on the state of his personal life and the world. Picasso is considered to be one of the most influential painters of the 20th century. His work is still considered to be “modern” art in today’s society and is immensely studied in art appreciation classes everywhere. Due to his constant experimentation and his sudden shifts in the style of painting he used throughout his lifetime, Pablo Picasso is an artist who all students should study. Evaluating Picasso’s work has proven to be very …show more content…
According to one of his mistresses, Picasso said, "When there's anything to steal, I steal" (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/416257). Picasso was impacted by other artists’ stylistic choices around him. For example, when he moved to Paris he viewed the exhibition of Fauve painters. He was specifically affected by Henri Matisse’s style. (https://www.pablopicasso.org/blue-period.jsp). Picasso would not have been the most important artist in the 20th century if he had not been inspired by only his life events. Picasso’s success relied on the ideas and influences of other …show more content…
For instance, he copied the work of El Greco, a painter from the Spanish Renaissance in the 15th century into his painting, The Old Guitarist. He painted elongated hands, faces, torsos, and heads and placed them in a setting of the 20th century (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/416257). By elongating the forms, he intensified the desperation of the subject. Since the hands were used to play music, the viewer focuses on the idea that the hands, although sickly, are still able to create something of significance. The theme of desperation and hunger throughout the figures are masked by the subject of the composition as a