what's your favorite pablo picasso painting?

Question

why? whats is it about?

Answer 1

Garçon à la pipe (Boy with a pipe)


One of the iconic images of the Blue and Rose periods, Garçon à la pipe (Boy with a pipe), is a masterpiece of Picasso's early years and the finest painting of that era remaining in private hands. This extraordinary work probably began as a study from life in Picasso's immediate surroundings but was dramatically transformed in a moment of sudden inspiration.
According to André Salmon: 'After a delightful series of metaphysical acrobats, dances like priestesses of Diana, delightful clowns and `wistful Harlequins,' Picasso had painted, without a model, the purest and simplest image of a young Parisian working boy, beardless and in blue overalls: having indeed, more or less the same appearance as the artist himself during working hours. One night, Picasso abandoned the company of his friends and their intellectual chit-chat. He returned to his studio, took the canvas he had abandoned a month before and crowned the figure of the little apprentice lad with roses. He had made this work a masterpiece thanks to a sublime whim."
Picasso's work of the Rose period has always been admired for its melancholy charm and haunting poetry, contrasting with the deep gloom of the immediately preceding Blue period, yet in both instances the source of inspiration was in his immediate surroundings. Since 1904, he had been living in the Bateau Lavoir in Montmartre. Although the model for the present work has sometimes been identified as an actor, it seems likely that he was an adolescent known as 'p'tit Louis,' who was frequently to be found at the Bateau Lavoir along with, in Picasso's own words, other `local types, actors, ladies, gentlemen, delinquents. He stayed there, sometimes the whole day. He watched me work. He loved that.'
A number of preliminary studies for the present painting show Picasso depicting his model in a variety of different positions, standing, sitting, leaning against a wall, lighting a pipe or simply holding it in his hands. This remarkable painting differs radically from any of the preliminary studies, transforming the young boy who might light his pipe into a slightly more a mature adolescent who gazes absently into space. Even before the addition of the garland of flowers, any trace of the anecdotal had been removed. The pipe in held in the left hand with the stem pointing away from the youthful smoker, as an emblem of maturity, perhaps, rather than a purveyor of tobacco smoke..

Answer 2

Demoiselle d,Avignon Picasso painted with african masks , Picasso was anticolonialist

Answer 3

Guernica is my typical. The sheer length of the piece, the wealthy symbolism, the starkness of the colors, the uncooked angularity of the shapes, the disconcerting juxtaposition of the figures, the strangeness and usual air of horror and soreness, make it an extremely shifting, affecting image of conflict and that is effects. The room the place it hangs interior the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid is hushed, like a grave. efficient stuff.

Answer 4

"Time", clocks melting just makes sense to this old hippy...