Picasso__Three_Women_at_the_Spring

Picasso: Three Women at the Spring Pablo Picasso's Three Women at the Spring is composed entirely of volume and relief. It was painted at Fountainbleau, in France, in the summer of 1921, around the time that the artist's son Paolo was born. Around the same time, he painted his second representational Cubism, Three Musicians. This was before Picasso ventured into "Surrealism, which is usually regarded as having started in 1924. Picasso is one of the dominant artists of the 20th century. His work, which spans more than 70 years (up to his death in 1973), stands at the center of our artistic and spiritual life. A great variety can be found in his work because he never stayed with one school of art--instead, he tried them all. The figures in Three Women at the Spring are gigantic, massive, fleshy, and bulky. They look more like sculpture than painting. It is an example of Picasso's Neoclassicism. The figures of the women bring to mind the huge statues of ancient Greece and Rome, although they do not have the ideal features or proportions of Classical art. These women appear to be made out of terra cotta, women, painting, three, picasso, spring, life, work, water, truth, picasso's, look, figures, art, seem, sculpture, painted, out, musicians, made, hands, time, seems, own, one, music, monumental, looks, fountains, fountainbleau, earth, center, beautiful, works, tried