This past summer I visited the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire. After looking at all of the art they had on display, I chose to write about a very popular painting but a well-known artist. Pablo Picasso's "Woman Seated in a Chair." It was one of the last pieces I looked at and I hadn't picked one to write about yet, nothing in there really struck me until I saw that. The painting is larger than I thought; I would estimate that it is four and a half feet tall and three and a half feet wide.
             The painting was completed in 1941, it is created with oil on canvas. The museum acquired it in 1953 as an anonymous gift. The painting has a three-dimensional look to it created by oil paint that is placed in drops. The drops of oil stick out a little less than an inch from the surface. The choice of colors is complimentary, they all work well, it creates a visual effect that is appealing to the eye. The woman in the painting was a woman that would photograph for Picasso, she was working with him for ten years. The chair that the woman is seated in presents a verticle aspect that coincides with the random lines from the red and green background.
             This piece was created during world war II, this was the major influence on the style and representation of women. The distorted image represents his feelings of being trapped. Paris was an uncomfortable place during the war. Pablo expressed his sorrow for the lost soldiers and his rage against the war. Pablo was very much against the war, he wanted peace.
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