Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Pablo Picasso.
- Frequented the Fiestas Modernistas of Catalonia.
- Helped design several covers of Quatre Gats.
- Impressed by portraits of friend Casas, did one of his own which led to exhib of work in 1900.
- interested in new pictorial ideas of the French.
- painting accepted into 1900 Exposition Universalle.
- inspired by impressionism/post-impressionism, went to Paris with friend Cassagemas as a guest of modernist painter Isidre Nonell.
- Returned to Spain 1900.
- Suicide of Cassagemas 1901 led to 'Blue Period'.
- BLUE PERIOD MIND MAP.
- Broke away from academic art training and moved to Barcelona
- Style circa 1900: Mutes and mingles figures w/ light, brushstroke heavy and rapid, great attention to volumes.