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"Absinthe Drinker" by Pablo Picasso is his very famous painting

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Picasso produced this work in the autumn of 1901, during his second trip to Paris, when he was just 22 years old. Our lonely heroine sits at a table in a cafe. Emphasizing the flatness of the canvas, the colour of the walls and the bluish tone of the marble table seem to press the space inwards, around the woman, enclosing her in her hopeless loneliness. In the pose of the absinthe drinker, in her face, we can identify the outcast: the totally enclosed space of her body, the expressive distortion of the right hand, seem to indicate the tension of a coiled spring. Picasso strictly boxed in the immobile face - the hand acts as a support, its precise perpendicular running through the imperfect oval of the figure, while a protecting hand clasps the shoulder. Everything reinforces the sense of inner tension and cuts the figure off from the world around. On the basis of real observations in a cafe Picasso created a generalised and timeless symbol of the tragedy of life. On the back of the painting, concealed beneath heavy overpainting in blue and yellow, is a woman's head, probably a fragment of a work which did not satisfy the artist.

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"Absinthe Drinker" by Pablo Picasso is his very famous painting . Picasso produced this work in the autumn of 1901, during his second trip to Paris, when he was just 22 years old. Our lonely heroine sits at a table in a cafe. Emphasizing the flatness of the canvas, the colour of the walls and the bluish tone of the marble table seem to press the space inwards, around the woman, enclosing her in her hopeless loneliness. In the pose of the absinthe drinker, in her face, we can identify the outcast: the totally enclosed space of her body, the expressive distortion of the right hand, seem to indicate the tension of a coiled spring. Picasso strictly boxed in the immobile face - the hand acts as a support, its precise perpendicular running through the imperfect oval of the figure, while a protecting hand clasps the shoulder. Everything reinforces the sense of inner tension and cuts the figure off from the world around. On the basis of real observations in a cafe Picasso created a generalised and timeless symbol of the tragedy of life. On the back of the painting, concealed beneath heavy overpainting in blue and yellow, is a woman's head, probably a fragment of a work which did not satisfy the artist.

Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker and ceramicist.Picasso achieved universal acclaim and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments; becoming one of the best-known figures in the 20th century art.He is also known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture and the co-invention of collage.


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