Sadness
Look at the image The Tragedy by Picasso:
ref: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/features/slideshows/pablo-picasso-the-tragedy.html
The human beings are pulling themselves in, folded arms, head bowed in an expression of protection. Only the child’s hands open as though to question to request information and perhaps protection from his parents. Eyes are cast to the floor. The woman has a quiet dignity standing straight but softly in a position of acceptance, the man huddles his clothes tightly to his chest, stands with one knee bent across the other leg, as though protecting himself from immense cold. His face is expressionless again in a state of acceptance. The child has an expression of worry. The whole image is painted in blues, whites and browns maintaining the feeling of cold both emotionally and physically. The landscape is bare, a mottled blue sky meets a blue sea just above the middle of the image behind the waist line height of the adults and the head of the child. Small white ripples of wave meet a brown blue shore at a level below the adults’ knees. There is no apparent shade and the cold blue shoeless feet add to the feeling of cold.The compositon is dependent on a bleak and featureless background framing the dominant figures. The woman on the left, with her back to the viewer perhaps indicating that she does not want to talk to anyone,the central vertical being the touch of the mans face and feet as he and the boy fill the right hand side of the image. The curves of the adult’s heads leading towards each other and then following their bodies downwards form an oval which in itself is a figure which encloses and protects like the shape of an egg.
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