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Representations of Blindness in Picasso's Blue Period
James G. Ravin, MD;
Jonathan Perkins, PhD
Arch Ophthalmol. 2004;122:636-639.
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The Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was the most important artist of the 20th century. It is impossible to consider the development of modern art without him. A unique, highly productive artist who created more than 20 000 works in more than 75 years of activity, Picasso was the most frequently exhibited and critiqued artist of the last century. Best known as a painter, he also worked in sculpture, prints, ceramics, and theater design. Blindness was a theme that played an important role in the artist's first distinctive style, known as the Blue Period.
Picasso's earliest work was done in a naturalistic manner and gives few hints of the future direction his art would take. While still a teenager, Picasso made several visits to Paris, the capital of the artistic world, where he exhibited paintings and drawings at the gallery of Ambrose Vollard, who . . . [Full Text of this Article]
From the Section of Ophthalmology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo (Dr Ravin); and the Visual Arts Program, University of Illinois at Springfield (Dr Perkins).
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