Pablo Picasso Women

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Pablo Picasso created his painting Women in Profile in 1901 using oil paint on paper board mounted on particle board. Just as the title suggest, the painting’s subject is a women extravagantly dressed showing one side of her profile (face). The painting is currently being exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It is relatively an average size painting at 20 ½ by 13 ¼ inches. Just looking at the painting the viewer can get a sense of the women’s attitude painted on the particle board.
The painting belongs to a small group of pictures of extravagantly dressed women that evoke the Parisian demimonde of dance halls and brothels. Most striking about this painting is the artist's extraordinary ability to capture the very intensity …show more content…

The electric palette and broad dabs of paint relate it to other works that Picasso painted in Madrid in spring 1901. The image of the women painted is facing a certain direction (from the viewer’s point of view she is looking to her left). We view her as someone who seems serious with no facial expression. With the minimum use of colors and the use of non-vibrant colors (a mix of primary and secondary colors), Picasso has truly created a masterpiece. The colors create an image that gives the women painted a personality. The painting is mostly low Chroma and desaturated colors. The background is painted light and mellow with yellows and oranges as well as, a little mix of a soft green color. Within this painting, you can see that Picasso has incorporated some white within the background to bring more light to that section of the painting. He combines the same colors of the background within the women itself. The face of the women is painted with an off white color making her appear pale. The eyelids are painted with a soft, light blue, and the lips as well as the cheek is …show more content…

It appears as though the image of the women itself is roughly painted due to the brush marks. The colors are not blended in together, this being because the brush strokes indicate that Picasso used heavy paint and dabbed the paint on using the brush to paint his vision. His brush work indicates that the background and the women’s clothing are not as important as the face. The face is the only portion of the painting that is painted smoothly and clearer than the other parts. This tells us that Picasso wanted his viewers to focus on the women’s facial expression rather than what she is wearing and what the background is supposed to be. The paintings main focus is the women’s facial

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