Chapter 113 Picasso's Blue Age

Picasso's Blue Age Under the cold night light, read the biography of Picasso. Picasso's first name is Pablo, and his surname is Picasso.It's not his father's surname, it's his mother's surname.Picasso's father was Basque, a mountain nation in Spain, and his surname was Ritz; A Spaniard from Italy, surnamed Picasso.According to the custom of Spain, in addition to the name of the child, The surname after growing up can be from the father or the mother.Picasso liked the pronunciation of his mother's surname, When she grew up, she adopted her mother's surname.His own name is Pablo, so he was also called "Pablo Ritz" when he was young,

When studying, the mother's surname was added after the father's surname, becoming "Pablo Ritz Picasso".After the age of twenty, Begin to give up the father's surname and become the "Pablo Picasso" we know today. Picasso's father was also a painter.He learned painting from his father since he was a child.Enrolled in Barcelona at the age of sixteen Nana's Provincial Academy of Fine Arts.The examination subjects of the entrance examination are very heavy, and many pictures are to be drawn, usually stipulated Candidates can use one month to complete these exam-oriented works.But Picasso spent a day

I handed in the papers in no time and was admitted.A few months later, he went to attend the National Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, the capital. The entrance examination also only took one day to complete the various test papers, and was also admitted. Since the age of twenty, his works have been outstanding.These rare works are called "the blue age" The works, which began in 1901 and continued until the beginning of 1904, all maintained the same style, which is His works from the age of twenty to twenty-three. The so-called "cyan era" refers to the paintings he made during this period, in which the blue color is always used as the main color on the screen.

The main theme, sometimes the whole painting is painted with different shades of cyan.The subjects of these paintings are figures, The mood is very melancholy and heavy. How to explain this phenomenon?The art critic who studied Picasso's works and his biographer, There are various theories and researches on this phenomenon.But among Picasso's friends, there are two rich A humane tale.One said that Picasso was very poor in this period and couldn't afford many kinds of paints. I don't know where to get them. A large number of cyan pigments came, so I had to simply use cyan to paint.Another legend says that he

In order to be poor, I can only paint at night, the light is weak, and I can't use a variety of colors, so I have to simply paint The use of cyan. The origin of the latter is based on Picasso's self-report.Because in the so-called "blue age" At that time, he had arrived in Paris and lived in a small room in the Montbat district. He could not afford to light an oil lamp at night and had food Moldy sausages; I had to burn my stacks of drawings to keep warm.Later, in order not to pay alone In order to afford the rent, he had to move out and share a room with the poet Max Rukobo.When the poet goes out in the daytime, he

Sleeping in the room; when the poet came back at night, he got up from the bed and began to paint under the lamp.The so-called "blue It is said that the works of "The Age of Color" are all created under the lamp, and that is where they came from.