Woman in Spanish Costume by Pablo Picasso
How would painters draw portraits of their wives? May be, they draw portraits as real as their wives looks like. May be, painters draw wives' facials as how those men want their wives to look like. The true answer is unknown. However, in almost every case, painters try to capture all of their ladies' beauty. Unlike many of his other female-modeled portraits, which were drawn in abstracts, Woman in Spanish Costume was drawn in neo-classicism. It is mainly because Picasso wants to preserve his wife, Olga Koklova, 's beauty as it was, and he does not wanted his critical and analytical view to shadow her beauty.In the process of capturing the beauty, Picasso used all of his techniques that he used in previously. Up u
He colors tiny squares (or rectangular), which cubism is employed (Abrams, 46). ' However, after meeting and finally marrying with Olga, he gave up his cubism, and went back to classicism, especially Mediterranean Classicism. " Picasso may have given up cubism in sketch, but he has not entirely given up on cubism. Woman in Spanish Costume is one of few portraits by Picasso that do not have facial expression. With uneven eyes, viewers may guess whether Olga was blind or not. In portrait, colors are not present in many areas. Except for unfocused eye, the art piece Woman in Spanish Costume may not be anything special to viewers. "The influence of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the great nineteenth-century French Romantic Classicist, is evident in the precision and discipline of Picasso's drawing from this period (Abrams, 46). ntil this portrait, Woman in Spanish Costume, Picasso was famous using drawing technique call 'cubism. The color blue stood for his blue period of art, which represents his darkness, and orange stood for rose period. Whenever Picasso drew the portrait of any members of family, he drew in classical or neo-classical style. She also wears some ornaments-like necklace. Although the lines of arms and hands are not clear and does not have full figure, it well describes facial and colored part of dress.
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