picassos la vie
... While he has produced many pieces of art one of his most famous paintings is La Vie, for it is an autobiographical painting that represents a tragic period in his life. This masterpiece is among the largest and most complex paintings from Picassos’s Blue period. La Vie remains one of the key works in the prodigious output of paintings, drawings, sculptures and other various aspects of art of this dominant visual artist of the twentieth century. ... Reduced to poverty himself, Picasso eventually returned to living with his parents in Barcelona, where he produced La Vie in 1903. La Vie is quite an interesting title for it means life but looks like a painting about death or impasse. La Vie is oil on canvas with a height of about 196. ... La Vie was in was inspired by Picassos close friends suicide, the death of Casagemas, which happened in 1901 at the start of the Blue Period. ... La Vie is a symbolic composition on which most of the atmosphere and themes of the blue period are brought together. The meeting of two different beings often reoccurs in Picassos work. ... The two female figures portrayed in Picassos La Vie present a viewer with two very different moods or temperaments.