Shamanic Art in the Twentieth Century.
Pablo Picasso
Picasso's Early Life
Picasso's early life showed him to be a man of great exploration. In his youth he explored certain hues to great extreme, so much so that his early paintings are catagorised to the Blue and the Rose Periods. These hues do strongly correspond to the emotional states of a young man. The sorrow that comes from a burgeoning self awareness in a world which is no longer a playground is often expressed as varying shades of blue,
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La Vie (Life) – 1903.
Young Girl with a Goat – 1906.
which then matures into a rosier aspect when one realises what can actually be achieved within the restrictions of the real world, particularly with the discovery of love. His subject matter too follows this pattern, from social outcasts and down and outs for his Blue Period to circus folk and harlequins and depictions of Fernande Olivier in his Rose Periods, where he started a seven-year relationship with her and settled down in Paris with a group of bohemians.
