Picasso Blue Period painting Spawns Creativity - The Old Guitarist

The Picasso Blue Period painting The Old Guitarist evokes vivid feelings despite its paucity of colors. The painting, done in 1903 during the artist's Blue Period, depicts a weathered old man playing a blue guitar. The blind man is thought to be modeled after one of Picasso's earlier mentors, Senor Sebastian Mazzarella. In the painting, the subject takes on a distorted appearance with his upper body somewhat reclined, and his lower legs crossed. Though Picasso's Cubism period didn't occur until several years later, The Old Guitarist may be a glipse of the young artist's future style.