The Weeping Woman Pablo Picasso Analysis

to compare two works by the Spanish-born painter Pablo Picasso, at times in his life where grief and trauma cloud his mind. The first “Girl in a Chemise” (c.1904) marks the emergence from a self-destructive, chaotic breakdown that results from a desperate story of suicide, despair and of the search for redemption. The other “The Weeping Woman” (1937), born of the horrors of war, the suffering of the human soul and man 's inhumanity to man. The two paintings lay bare the prodigious compositional and stylistic changes that Picasso’s work undertook in the years between the production of the two images. Where both deal with the comparable emotional state of the artist with vastly differing results. The two compositions would be the last word spoken …show more content…
And like many a young man he felt the urge to leave home. In October 1900, when he was just 19 years old, Picasso decided to leave Spain, with him the whole way his friend Carlos Casagemas, together they planned to make their names on the international stage. Paris was oblivious to the two young artists struggling to make their way, and while Picasso kept the faith, Casagemas was consumed with frustration, as he began to lose his grip on sanity. In an episode of private pain played out on a public stage, Casagemas was to take his life, out of an unrequited lust for his lover. It was to be an event that Picasso struggled to bear, plunging him into a winter of black melancholy that would subjugate his mind for many years to …show more content…
Colour tentatively emerges from the blue murk. The colour of life, of flesh tones, the tender pink of lips and of the pureness of the white linen that hangs off the body. Female beauty and lustful desire re-establish themselves as the muse for Picasso’s artistic narrative and form. It is here that Picasso finally begins to unshackle himself from the trauma that has tormented his mind and soul, as if that after 3 years of compulsive and self-destructive subjection, he has painted himself out of his ordeal. The very act of applying the paint to the canvas a catharsis, releasing until finally he can move