Picasso - Olga in an arm chair and Jacqueline

... Critical Studies The artist I am writing about is called Picasso. The two pictures I have chosen are Olga in an arm chair and the portrait of Jacqueline. Olga Koklova was his first wife, and he painted this portrait for a photograph he had taken of her in 1917. The second portrait was of his second wife Jacqueline in 1954, "she was his favorite subject later in his life. In fact, in just one year (1963 he painted 150 portraits of her." It was said as Picasso changed his girlfriends he changed his style of painting too. I chose to produce a colour wax crayon study of Picasso's 'Weeping Woman' This is a portrait of great emotion, symbolising the great grief the subject feels towards a deceased loved one, in this instance a husband who died in the Spanish Civil War. I was attracted to the bold unusual drawing and colour. Picasso

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