TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Suicide in blue with black stain: short history of a gunshot in the paintings of Pablo Picasso
JO  - Arbor
A1  - Ivan, G.C.
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EP  - 
VL  - 189
IS  - 764
N2  - 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 "mourning" through his paintings. The "bullet hole" in his friend's temple symbolically displaced several areas of the young Picasso's life and became a "deep vacuum" and "melancholy", permeating various areas in Picasso's paintings, and marking the start of his famous blue period. © 2013 CSIC.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0210-1963
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2013.764n6010
ID  - ref1
ER  -