Pablo Picasso Research Paper

With a new love and inspiration found in his new wife, the ballerina, Olga Koklova, daughter of a Russian general, Picasso’s art experienced a dramatic change to neoclassical art style with realistic style; this simple period lasted from 1920-1930. This period focused on Picasso’s experimentation of classical styles and creating an emphasis on simplicity and harmony. Picassos Neo-Classical Period often would feature heavily-built sculpturesque Grecian women, in traditional settings. This Period was again influenced with positive images and colors creating very pleasant looking pictures without the distortion found in other movements like Cubism or the next movement Surrealism. During this time period Picasso created works like “Three Woman at the spring" 1921 and …show more content…
Again, the death of a close friend, Carlos Casagemas, of Picasso’s drove his art into a deep dark place, attracting him to again create erotic and primitive art. With this tragedy Picasso created “The Three dancers”, 1925. This piece is filled with Picasso's personal feelings which expressed the heart-broken suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas. In this painting Picasso captures the essence of love, sex and death in the form of three women dancing. Picasso found refuge in Surrealism from 1926 till the end of his life. This dream world of subconscious paintings formed from biomorphic shapes found deep in Picasso’s subconscious. In Surrealism Picasso would create recognizable form but would distort it unlike cubism in which many of the subjects appear unrecognizable. Arguably Picasso’s greatest piece from this time period was “Guernica”, 1937. Guernica appears to be Picasso’s testament to the horrors of war, and features a minotaur and several human figures in different states of horror and dismay. When asked about Guernica Picasso said "It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he