In 1901 Picasso's good friend Casagemas commited suicide after the girl he loved refused him. This was still very shocking to Picasso that he would return to thid again and again in his art. He painted The Death of Casagemas in color, The Death of Casagemas in blue, and finally "Evocation- the Burial of Casagemas."
“I began to paint in blue, when I realized that Casademas had died”, Picasso wrote.
Through this time he moved between Paris and Barcelona mourning the death of his friend depicting isolation and misery-all of this in shades of blue.
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/cubism/Pablo-Picasso.html
La Vie
La Vie
20th Century, Spain
Oil on Canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Photographe : © The Cleveland Museum of Art 2006
Photographe : © The Cleveland Museum of Art 2006
After the death of his friend Casademas Picasso restricted his pallete with cold colors. His obsessions with themes of human misery reached his highest with La Vie (Life). His painting represents an allegory of a sacred and profane love, a reference to the cycle of love, and a symbolic representation of the life led by the artist. He replaced the standing man with the facial features of his deceased friend Casademas. He used monochrome blue as such in many of his paintings to show the cold mysery he felt through this period of time in his life. http://www.framemuseums.org/jsp/fiche_oeuvre.jsp?STNAV=&RUBNAV=&CODE=O1145960964528167&LANGUE=0&RH=MUSEEsUSA&OBJET_PROVENANCE=COLLECTION
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