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The Old Guitarist After the suicide death of his friend, Carlos Casagemas, Spanish painter Pablo Picasso is sadly affected and enters his " Blue Period " from 1901-1904. During Picasso's Blue Period, Picasso made several paintings that were mostly blue and gloomy, for example, Picasso's  The Old Guitarist , which was made in 1903, showing a slim and blind old man playing his guitar in Barcelona, Spain . The Old Guitarist  (1903) by Pablo Picasso; location Art Institute of Chicago When I first saw this painting, I felt sadness. Maybe that was Picasso's goal, to make the viewers feel the sadness through this work of art. Maybe Picasso made this blue emotional painting because of his friend passing away from suicide. But at the same time, when I really take the time to look at this, I see beautiful art. In this piece of art, Picasso makes great use of cool colors, shade, contrast, light and shadow, proportion and scale, and emphasis.  Cool colors and analogous color

Hello ART F200X (Explorations in Art) class! I hope my Blogger site is set upright. Anyways, my name is Jaden Anaver and I am from Kipnuk, Alaska. I am 20 years old and in my third year of college pursuing an AA degree in the General Program. My relationship with art is not quite strong yet because I didn't have much art experience in the past. So I don't have a strong background in Art yet but I am willing to learn more about Art in this class. I don't have a painting piece of art but I have a picture I really like that I think can be art.  Here is the picture I like: We are picking blackberries or crowberries north of Kipnuk. A link related to art, here , which I picked the Anchorage Museum.