Public Art in Chicago: AIC: The Old Guitarist [By Pablo Picasso]

] Pablo Picasso made "The Old Guitarist" while working in Barcelona. More from where one stands, the idol reflects the struggling 22-year old artist's tender-heartedness for the predicament of the plagued - Picasso knew what it was like to be hard up, having been exactly penniless during all of 1902. The elongated angular emblem calculate of the screen musician also relates to Picasso's interest in Spanish art and, in definite, the prodigious 16th century artist El Greco. about how I liked Picasso. In the painting of his Dispirited Time [1901-04] the artist restricted himself to raw, monochromatic downhearted palettes, flattened frame and fervent, unconscious themes of soul depression and alienation akin to the drudgery of such artists as Edvard Champ...

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