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Article: Classroom use.(discussion of painter Pablo Picasso's Weeping Woman)
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- Arts & Activities
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- November 1, 2002
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THIS FACE
This very abstract portrait is of a distraught, sobbing woman. She is holding a handkerchief to her tearful eyes, while at the same time gripping part of the handkerchief in her teeth. The woman is fashionably dressed in the style of the 1930s.
The abstract divisions of the face made it possible for Pablo Picasso to greatly enhance the sense of the woman's misery in a way that would have been impossible in a realistic portrait.
ABOUT PABLO PICASSO
* Pablo Picasso's parents were Spanish and Italian. He spent his childhood in the Spanish city of Malaga and later moved to Barcelona, Spain, where his father was an art teacher. ...