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Pablo Picasso, “Self-Portrait,” 1917 (Photo: Wiki Art, PD-US) A decade later, Picasso created a self-portrait that resembles his realistic approach from his youth. Here, he captures a three-quarter view of his face that is realistic yet also simplified to just a pencil outline.
Sep 12, 2022 · The beloved Cubist Pablo Picasso created thousands of paintings, but did you know that he painted over 10 self-portraits from the young age of 15 up until just before his death? In this article, we will discuss 10 examples from the Picasso self-portrait evolution.
- Alicia du Plessis
- Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, and died on April 8, 1973; he was born in Málaga in Andalusia, Spain. He learned art (drawing and...
- Pablo Picasso reportedly created around 14 self-portraits in different media, from oil painting, drawing, and crayons. He started when he was aroun...
- Pablo Picasso created many faces of himself throughout his self-portrait evolution, from realistic depictions as a young man, to abstracted and ang...
- Pablo Picasso was one of the pioneering artists of the Cubism art movement during the early 1900s. Still, he was influenced by various other art st...
Apr 15, 2022 · Picasso’s self-portraits are important because they span his entire career, and we can trace how his manner of self-depiction changed over time. It’s interesting to compare the self-portraits from, for instance, the Blue Period to those done when he was working in a Cubist mode only a few years later. In a way, his self-portraits reflect ...
This Self-Portrait, painted during his second stay in Paris in the winter of 1901, was the end of a series and marked the beginning of the Blue Period. He returned to Barcelona in January 1902. Picasso was only twenty years old at the time, but he appears considerably older in this portrait.
Picasso painted this self-portrait after spending the summer of 1906 in Gósol, a small village in the Spanish Pyrenees. The stay has become synonymous with a decisive new direction in his style, one that moved toward simplified forms with a decidedly archaic and sculptural appearance.
During his Blue Period (1901-1904), marked by a melancholic color palette, Picasso painted self-portraits reflecting a sense of introspection and vulnerability. Notable examples include “Self-Portrait with a Palette” (1906), where the artist contemplates his own reflection with a penetrating gaze.
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From his early portraits as a teenager, to his cubist experiments in his 20s and 30s, to his later works that grappled with themes of mortality and identity, Picasso’s self-portraits offer a fascinating and revealing look at the mind of one of the 20th century’s greatest artists.
