The Old Guitarist- The Symbol of the Blue （final）

     Have you ever feel blue? Did you know what is the feeling of blue? Blue is a feeling that make people feel sad, depress, exhaust...etc. It is hard to understand feeling by reading, but Picasso’s painting The Old Guitarist is a really good example for blue. It gives the viewer the feeling of blue by the color he use and he drew the old man with twisted body.

     In The Old Guitarist, Picasso use blue as it base color, whole painting is surrounding by the color blue. This is very important because without the color blue, it is hard to give people the feeling of blue. It is the main character of the whole painting, without it is just like a song but didn’t have solo in it, which will make the song has less attention from the audiences. Here we can know that color blue is one of the major point that make this paint have the feeling of blue.

     Not only the color, I also think the pose of the old man having important relationship with the feeling blue. In the paint, the old man is wearing old and dirty clothes, because it want to make the feeling of alone, poor, no one take care of him. The old man also show in a twist pose, seems like he didn’t have enough power to play the guitar normaly and from his face we can know he is definitely not happy at all. It is just like he is playing guitar with his final power and wait for dead. All of these combine together to let the viewer feel the feeling of the blue.

    I really worship that how he gave people the feeling of the blue by one painting. I think it is hard to make audience have the same feeling as the artist did, because people always say ‘’Probably in our eyes, it is just a piece of trash, but for artist, it probably is the most beautiful works that they ever saw.’’ but Picasso did it, he did let the viewer feel about blue. To do this, he not only use the color and the pose of the old man. It is because while he is drawing, he is in a audience view but not a artist view. He wanted to know if I am an audience, what kind of things will make me feel the feeling of blue. This is why I think this paint is very successful.

    Picasso did make the viewer feel the feeling of blue by the color he use, how he draw the old man, and think in an audience view. All of these make The Old Guitarist become a really great symbol to represent the feeling blue, but is it possible that there are other painting is greater than The Old Guitarist? I think only you can find this answer out.