Picasso

Portrait of a Young Girl, after Cranach the Younger. July 4, 1958.

Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright. This is a Lino cut that that Pablo Picasso did back in 1958. From what I have researched this is an original a painting by Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Younger II. Apparently he used five colors to do this yellow, red, brown, blue and black.

I do like what he has done with the face, it seems like there is a whole face, like just one face but   from what I’m seeing there is a side of a face looking to the right hand side which I never noticed when I first looked at this.  When looking at other pieces of Picasso’s work, prints, paintings there is a lot of that which I never noticed before. Always found it looking at his work hard to understand.

I do as well like the cuts he has made on the necklace, on the face and other place’s.

I can’t say I really like colors he has used, I think they seem dull. They remind me of the colours that he has used on other pieces of work. Even though I am not that keen on the colours, I have noticed that the colours are overlapping and I do like this. Though from when I have done lino printing myself and from what I can remember and understand from lino printing is that you should not do that in lino printing.