The Old Guitarist - The Symbol of the Blue

Blue , always given people a feeling of sad, poor, depression feeling. Some of the artist express the feeling of blue perfectly. Picasso is a really good example of blue artist.

In 1900-1904, people called it is the blue time of Picasso. During that periods of time, Picasso only use single color or dark color to draw his paint. The Old Guitarist is one of the artwork that he done during that time. In the paint, there is an old man who playing a guitar wit

h a really strange pose. Whole painting is base on blue for the color, so it gives people a feeling of depression and sadness.

First thing interesting about this painting is about the old man, just like what I said, he playing the guitar with a strange way by taking it straight down. Then the way that he puts his hand on the guitar is very different than how we take it normally. His hand was twisted and seems like he don't have power to take his guitar, it's just like he is almost die or he already dead. Also the clothes he wear make my attention because it looks like it is very old and broken already, that mean no one is take care of him and he probably already have this kind of life for lots of days already. If this was true, then it is easy to explain why he is so thin.

Not only about the old man, I think the window is also another biggest point of this painting. I will say that is because it is hard to tell weather it is morning or night in the picture, but the color of the sky is blue. That make the painting more blue because of the window. Without the window, it seems like it is only a dying old man who sitting on the ground, but the window give audience think more about the feeling of the blue, which I think is also an important point of the painting.

This paint did gives people the feeling of blue by the color and the picture he draw, that's why Picasso's painting can be the symbol of the blue.