Clicking on the links below will take you to the Gallery, where you may peruse examples of these styles of painting. A secular and worldly period featuring people in cabarets. A Christian period, both morbid and erotic. Picasso explores themes of death and love.
Paintings reflect despair and are metaphorical.
Both realist and poetic. Paintings feature performers, costumes, clowns, and fools. This period marks a return to the cabaret art of his early career and incorporates metaphorical elements from the Blue Period. The refraction of reality and experiments with a new way of seeing.