La Vie
by Eric Glaser
Title
La Vie
Artist
Eric Glaser
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
"La Vie"
Artist: Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Title: La Vie
The Life
Style: Expressionism, Symbolism
Period: Blue Period
Genre: Symbolic painting
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 196.5 x 128.5 cm
Date: 1903
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH USA
In 1901, depressed over the suicide of a close friend, Picasso launched into the melancholic paintings of his Blue period (1901–4). Only 21 years old and desperately poor, he restricted his palette to cold colors suggestive of night, mystery, dreams, and death. His obsession with themes of human misery and social alienation reached its climax with this painting. The subject has been interpreted variously as an allegory of sacred and profane love, a symbolic representation of the cycle of life, and a working-class couple facing the hazards of real life.
Text Credit: Cleveland Museum of Art
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Additional image editing by Eric Glaser
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March 9th, 2021
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