#the old guitarist

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ON MELANCHOLY

Ben McLaughlin Anyone Awake Series / Alida Nugent You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism / Pablo Picasso The Old Guiatarist / Margaret Atwood You Are Happy / Kate DiCamillo Because of Winn-Dixie / unknown / Elinor Wylie The Spring Flowers Own & The Manifestations of the Voyage / Anna Magill Coming Home to You / Virginia Woolf Jacob's Room

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blue period week day 6: picasso (final day!)

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the young guitarist

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The Old Guitarist

- Pablo Picasso

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Painted Song Challenge

Rules: Combine one of your favourite paintings with an oldies song that captures its feel to you, then tag others along to keep the challenge going. 

I chose The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso with the song "Capricho árabe" by Francisco Tárrega

Thank you @simply-eno and @poppiesandpromises for tagging me!

Tagging next @artymys @unmondefou @aubriestar @zelphafrost @raven-runes

[pmamtraveller]

THE OLD GUITARIST (1903) by PABLO PICASSO

The figure in the painting is a blind man holding a large round guitar in his hand. The guitar's brown body is the only change in colour throughout the painting. The guitar is both physical and symbolic, filling the space around the blind man as he plays, seemingly unaware of his blindness and poverty.

The blind musician’s thin, skeletal figure is also rooted in PICASSO’S native SPAIN, where the old man’s elongated limbs and hunched angular stance evoke the figures of the famous 16th-century painter El GRECO

THE OLD GUITARIST may be the most famous painting of PICASSO’S Blue Period, when he was struggling with poverty and mental health issues. It’s also one of the most mysterious paintings, with a mysterious image painted beneath it.

In addition to the technical examinations, art-historical research uncovered two earlier pieces underneath THE OLD GUITARIST, providing us with a deeper insight into PICASSO’S creative process.

The most prominent features include a woman’s head pointing to the left, an arm stretched out with an open hand pointing to the right, and shins that appear (especially in the X-ray image) to be sitting.

It’s very probable that PICASSO’S initial intent was to paint a portrait of a seated woman in an agitated or distressed state. You can barely make out her face and feet in this painting.

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Cry For Judas by The Mountain Goats // The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso

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Poetry - Senryū - A Place Named Sorrow - A Poem by Goff James - The Old Guitarist - A Painting by Pablo Picasso - The Man with the Blue Guitar - (Excerpt) - A Poem by Wallace Stevens

Thoughts about the Poem The senryū poem “A Place Named Sorrow” by Goff James encapsulates the profound and universal theme of emotional pain and loss. Through the masterful use of language and imagery, the poem crafts a poignant and evocative landscape of sorrow. The choice of words such as “sorrow” and “heartache’s wilderness of tears” not only creates a powerful visual representation of…

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Transforming Vision

Pablo Picasso. “The Old Guitarist,” Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection. © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York I The man bent over his guitar,A shearsman of sorts. The day was green. They said, “You have a blue guitar,You do not play things as they are.” The man replied, “Things as they areAre changed upon the blue guitar.” And they said then, “But play, you…

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AUUUUGHHHHH MY HEAD HURTS SO BAD

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this is my last week in tokyo so I finally got around to ticking something off of my bucket list and seeing a live show at shelter... I picked this show bc of the good timing and another anime cover band act later in the show I was interested in but I got pleasantly surprised by a kessoku band cover performance as well

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February 13th, 1967 - EMI photoshoot

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Wes Borland turns 49 today!! :3

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vmpire grl

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Keith showing off his signature moves (2015)