With the beginning of the age of Cubism, Picasso experimented with this style through the painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Through the usage of cubism as the main style, Picasso was able to distort the models body into geometric form that defies the laws of physic and present the female body into the idealized standard of beauty. The painting was created after nine long month of sketches and studies of the subject to later be placed unto the final work. Many believe that the painting was a reaction to the artwork done by Henri Matisse’s (Le Bonheur de Vivre and Blue Nude) as said by Picasso himself “Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen”. In the
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The most famous of painting Picasso created during this period was the “Guernica” and thus came the continuation through “The Weeping Woman”. During the creation of “The Weeping Woman” Picasso was no longer focusing on the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War however redirected his focus unto the universal representation of suffering. When painting this piece Picasso wanted the viewer to place themselves inside the eyes of the woman and experience the pain and suffering that was being expressed. The model for the painting was a mistress of Picasso in which he explains that “for [him] she’s the weeping woman. For years [he] has painted her in tortured forms, not through sadism, and not with pleasure, either, just obeying a vision that forced itself on [him]. It was the deep reality, not the superficial one…Dora, for [him], was always a weeping woman…And it’s important, because women are suffering machines.” Due to the painting being the last of its series instead of complete depression and darkness that entraps the art works that came before this painting in the series, there exist a shred of hope and light. The darkness of the eyes of the woman is meant to drag its viewers into the epitome of darkness and as the eyes traces the dark lines that wraps itself around the face of the women it becomes center unto the mouth area of the model. In the center a
The most famous of painting Picasso created during this period was the “Guernica” and thus came the continuation through “The Weeping Woman”. During the creation of “The Weeping Woman” Picasso was no longer focusing on the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War however redirected his focus unto the universal representation of suffering. When painting this piece Picasso wanted the viewer to place themselves inside the eyes of the woman and experience the pain and suffering that was being expressed. The model for the painting was a mistress of Picasso in which he explains that “for [him] she’s the weeping woman. For years [he] has painted her in tortured forms, not through sadism, and not with pleasure, either, just obeying a vision that forced itself on [him]. It was the deep reality, not the superficial one…Dora, for [him], was always a weeping woman…And it’s important, because women are suffering machines.” Due to the painting being the last of its series instead of complete depression and darkness that entraps the art works that came before this painting in the series, there exist a shred of hope and light. The darkness of the eyes of the woman is meant to drag its viewers into the epitome of darkness and as the eyes traces the dark lines that wraps itself around the face of the women it becomes center unto the mouth area of the model. In the center a