Blue Period

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Blue Period was a formative early phase in Pablo Picasso’s career, characterized by predominantly blue tones and somber, melancholic subjects reflecting themes of poverty and human suffering.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artistic period
painting style
phase in Pablo Picasso's career
artisticCharacteristic elongated figures
emphasis on emotional expression over realism
flattened space
limited, cool color palette
artMovement Modern art
countryOfOrigin Spain
creator Pablo Picasso
endTime 1904
followedBy Rose Period
follows Picasso's Blue Period
surface form: Picasso's early academic period
genre figurative painting
hasColorDominance blue
blue-gray
blue-green
hasNotableWork Blind Man's Meal
Crouching Beggar
Evocation (The Burial of Casagemas)
La Celestina
La Vie
Portrait of Soler
Seated Woman (The Absinthe Drinker)
The Old Guitarist
Two Sisters (The Meeting)
Woman with Folded Arms
hasTheme blindness
death
human suffering
isolation
marginalized people
melancholy
poverty
influenced 20th-century expressionist painting
influencedBy Pablo Picasso's emotional state after the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas
Post-Impressionism
Spanish realism traditions
Symbolism
mainLocation Barcelona
Paris
partOf Pablo Picasso's early work
significance marked Picasso's first distinct, mature style
startTime 1901
typicalMood introspective
melancholic
somber
typicalSubject beggars
mothers and children
prostitutes
the blind
the poor

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rose Period follows Blue Period
Rose Period hasContrastWith Blue Period
La Vie movement Blue Period
The Old Guitarist movement Blue Period
Pablo Picasso period Blue Period