"The Old Guitarist" Painted By Pablo Picass o

" I am by no means an artist, in fact I am not even a writer, I just love expressing my thoughts in words. To continue with what I was saying, I am no artist, and I have in no way any experience when it comes to interpreting art." What I see, when I look at a piece of art, a painting, a sketch if not a totally obvious picture, like a cat or dog." I see in black and white, rather or not I think that painting would look great in my living room, if it matches this and has a little of this color so it will match that! That is what I think about when I am looking a art" "So for a little mental exercise, I studied over a couple famous paintings, to look at and try to feel the deeper meaning and understand what the artist was trying to convey to the audience."

The painting to the right is a painting done by Pablo Picassoit is titled "The Old Guitarist" and fitting it is, "I mean it is just that a picture of a old man playing a guitar." " However,did you notices the blue tint to the painting?"For a period of time Picasso in 1903 painted with this blue color tone. This particular painting was painted right after Picasso lost a close friend to suicide." So, I see now, blue tone, artist is blue, sad by the lose of a close friend. I am beinging seeing where this painting has gone with its intending meaning." This painting has had very respectful influence over some pretty famous artists. Paul Mccarthy, wrote the 2 finger song after viewing this painting in the hospital where his wife had just giving birth to Mccarthy's first daughter. There was even a poem written by a famous poet known as Wallace Stevens the poem is titled "The Man With The Blue Guitar" By Wallace Stevens:

The man bent over his guitar

A shears man of sorts. The Day was green

They Said."You have a blue guitar

You do not say things as they are."

The man replied "Things as they are

Are changed upon the blue guitar."

And they said then. "But play, you can't

A tune beyond us. yet, ourselves,

A tune upon a blue guitar

Of things exactly as they are."

McCarthy saw happiness, this painting caught his attention in a whole different way. "Picasso I believe painted sadness and death, the man is sad, from the lose of his close friend, and plays a tune on his blue guitar, because blue symbolizes the artists feelings at the time. " I see a man maybe having lost his lovely wife of many many many years. He will sit there playing a love song to her, on his sad guitar, dieing inside of a broken heart." As for Wallace Stevens poem, the men were upset because all the old man did was play songs pertaining to his own sad feelings. These other men were not sad, so they told the old man to play songs according to how they all are feeling."

I think the point I am trying to make is " Art is not art by just one persons standards, I think art is meant to change with every new set of eyes, and feelings."