毕加索《The Old Guitarist》（老吉他手）

《The Old Guitarist》（老吉他手）
作者：巴勃罗·毕加索（Pablo Picasso）
年代：1903–1904 年
材质：木板油画（Oil on panel）
尺寸：122.9 × 82.6 cm
收藏：芝加哥艺术博物馆(The Art Institute of Chicago)

巴勃罗·毕加索在巴塞罗那创作了《老吉他手》。在他蓝色时期（1901-1904）的画作中，毕加索运用了冷峻的单色调蓝色，采用扁平的造型，并着重描绘人类的苦难和疏离等情感和心理主题，这与爱德华·蒙克和保罗·高更等艺术家的作品有着密切的联系。画中这位盲人音乐家的修长而棱角分明的身形也体现了毕加索对西班牙艺术，尤其是16世纪伟大艺术家埃尔·格列柯的兴趣。这幅画反映了22岁的毕加索的个人困境以及他对底层人民苦难的同情；他深知贫穷的滋味，因为他在1902年几乎身无分文。

Pablo Picasso made The Old Guitarist while working in Barcelona. In the paintings of his Blue Period (1901-04), the artist restricted himself to a cold, monochromatic blue palette, flattened forms, and emotional, psychological themes of human misery and alienation related to the work of such artists as Edvard Munch and Paul Gauguin. The elongated, angular figure of the blind musician also relates to Picasso’s interest in Spanish art and, in particular, the great 16th-century artist El Greco. The image reflects the twenty-two-year-old Picasso’s personal struggle and sympathy for the plight of the downtrodden; he knew what it was like to be poor, having been nearly penniless during all of 1902.