@article{ref1,
title="Suicide in blue with black stain: short history of a gunshot in the paintings of Pablo Picasso",
journal="Arbor",
year="2013",
author="Ivan, G.C.",
volume="189",
number="764",
pages="-",
abstract="Paris 1901: unrequited love drove Carles Casagemas, a close friend of Pablo Picasso's youth, to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head. This tragic event was a major blow to Picasso, causing him to dwell upon the subject of death and express his &quot;mourning&quot; through his paintings. The &quot;bullet hole&quot; in his friend's temple symbolically displaced several areas of the young Picasso's life and became a &quot;deep vacuum&quot; and &quot;melancholy&quot;, permeating various areas in Picasso's paintings, and marking the start of his famous blue period. © 2013 CSIC.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0210-1963",
doi="10.3989/arbor.2013.764n6010",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2013.764n6010"
}