#20th century spanish art

Pablo Picasso - The Kiss (1925)

- I guess everyone knows Gustav Klimt’s painting, The Kiss. One of my favorite ever. Lots of artist tried to remake it in their own style and i really admire this piece of Picasso and i’m so happy that i had chance to see this in the National Gallery of Budapest!

Pablo Picasso - Matador and Female Nude (1970)

Pablo Picasso - Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1909-1910)

- “That’s Voyard!” exclaimed the four-year-old-son of a friend of Ambroise Vollard’s, on seeing the painting. In fact, it’s easy to recognize the features of the Parisian galleryst, famous for having works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh or Henri Matisse.

Pablo Picasso - Dozing Drinker (1902)

- As I write you before, Picasso’s blue period started in 1901, after his friend commited suicide. He lived in very poor conditions during this term of his life in Montmartre, Bateau-Lavoir, he had lots of financial difficulties. He regularly visited the women’s prison hospital in Saint-Lazare, where venereal diseased prostitutes preserved. In the cells, ill and lonely women and girls vegetated, such as the woman in this painting, who fall asleep during drinking. The other title of the painting is Absinthe drinker: the greenish shades of the woman’s face reminds us to the color of the alcohol, which causes madness.

Pablo Picasso - The Death of Casagemas (1901)

- Picasso was twenty years old, when his good friend Carles Casagemas commited suicide in 1901, so he painted this masterpiece in memory of him. After this experience he started the blue period.