1903, Pablo Picasso, The Blind Man's Meal -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: In his depiction of a blind man holding bread and lightly touching a jug of wine, Picasso underscored a feeling of lonely despair through dramatic formal decisions: thin, elongated anatomy and a somber, unearthly palette. As in many canvases from his so-called Blue Period (roughly 1901-4), Picasso partially took inspiration from El Greco. The Greek artist's expressively contorted figures and colors, suggestive of religious visions, anticipated aspects of late nineteenth-century Symbolist movements with their religious undertones.
1903, Pablo Picasso, The Blind Man's Meal -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: In his depiction of a blind man holding bread and lightly touching a jug of wine, Picasso underscored a feeling of lonely despair through dramatic formal decisions: thin, elongated anatomy and a somber, unearthly palette. As in many canvases from his so-called Blue Period (roughly 1901-4), Picasso partially took inspiration from El Greco. The Greek artist's expressively contorted figures and colors, suggestive of religious visions, anticipated aspects of late nineteenth-century Symbolist movements with their religious undertones.