Pablo Picasso's Painting: "The Weeping Women"

Pablo Picasso's Painting: "The Weeping Women"

Written By: Madison Herley

I choose the painting "The Weeping Women" which was created by the famous Pablo Picasso during his Cubism period. Picasso is considered the father of Cubism because he was a painter who wanted to redefine art in relation to nature. With that being said, my eyes were drawn to this painting right away because it was abstract, unique, and a lot of bright colors. All of the other paintings I have chosen from previous painters didn't have the same approach as Picasso. This painting was created during the Cubism period which means Picasso involved his creations to have some sort of geometric shapes and patterns to represent a certain form. Other Cubist painters denied the old style of art which could be define as art representing nature, modeling, or a perspective. While, these Cubist painters adopted the illustration of creating art with geometric components such as angles and a series of lines,  and two- dimensional aspects of the canvas. For example, in the painting above, Picasso used a two-dimensional aspect on the canvas inside the Weeping Women. Picasso and other Cubist painters would draw the eyes of viewers to their paintings by including shapes, cubes, and lines to show multiple perspectives. In addition, doing that technique would draw the eye of the viewer to certain areas in the painting. Therefore, Picasso was the man who started the Cubism painting period in time.