The Old Guitarist

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The Old Guitarist is a famous Blue Period painting by Pablo Picasso depicting a gaunt, blind musician hunched over his guitar, known for its somber mood and monochromatic blue palette.


Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf painting
work of art
artForm oil painting
artist Pablo Picasso
artisticMovement Picasso's Blue Period
collection Art Institute of Chicago
colorPalette monochromatic blue
countryOfOrigin Spain
createdIn Barcelona
creator Pablo Picasso
depicts blind man
gaunt musician
old man
seated figure hunched over a guitar
depictsEmotion despair
loneliness
depictsInstrument guitar
dimensionType vertical orientation
follows Picasso's Blue Period
surface form: Picasso's Rose Period works
genre figurative painting
hasHiddenImage underlying figures revealed by X‑ray
hasTitle The Old Guitarist self-link
inception 1903
1904
influencedBy El Greco
Symbolism
languageOfTitle English
location Art Institute of Chicago
mainSubject guitarist
materialUsed oil paint
movement Blue Period
museum Art Institute of Chicago
notableFeature elongated, emaciated figure
expressive use of blue tones
somber mood
notableFor iconic image of Picasso's Blue Period
originalTitleLanguage Spanish
partOf Picasso's Blue Period
surface form: Picasso's Blue Period works
period early 20th century
style expressionist
modernist
support panel
technique oil on panel
theme human suffering
isolation
melancholy
poverty

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

Blue Period hasNotableWork The Old Guitarist
The Old Guitarist hasTitle The Old Guitarist self-link
Pablo Picasso notableWork The Old Guitarist
Picasso's Blue Period notableWork The Old Guitarist