Pablo Picasso, Girl With Mandonlin, 1910

In 1910, Pablo Picasso created this painting called "Girl with a Mandolin" during the Cubist movement. Picasso was known to take his subject, analyze, break down, and contour the subject into different squares, cubes, and other geometric shapes. I feel as though he was able to portray his fascination for cubism in this painting, by the way he really was able to give the viewer the ability to make out that there was a woman holding an instrument in the painting, but the background was just random shapes to help make the subject more visible. Supposedly in this time, Picasso and his friend Fernande Oliver spent their summer in Cadaques, where this painting had originated from. Cubism became a movement where artists could reconstruct their paintings into detailed thoughts and ideas. This gave more artists a lot of different styles to go for. Therefor not all paintings would look the same, every single one can be different, since we are all different, our minds are different, therefor out perception of SHAPES and METRICS are different. I really love this painting due to the amazing colors and blending, and the different shapes and how they perfectly give you the ability to make out what the subject had been doing and holding on to for the artist!