Picasso's Blue Period Blindman's Meal" (1903, the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and in the portrait of "Celestina" (1903). Infrared imagery of Picasso's 1901 painting "The Blue Room" reveals another painting beneath the surface. Other frequent subjects include female nudes and mothers with children. Solitary figures dominate his Blue Period works. Themes of loneliness, poverty and despair pervade the works as well. Possibly his most well known work from this period is "The Old Guitarist." Other major works include "Portrait of Soler" (1903) and "Las dos hermanas" (1904). Picasso's Blue Period was followed by his Rose Period. Picasso's bout with depression gradually ended, and
De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period girl corresponds to Sister Irma and her simple occupation is equated with the nun's genuine dedication to God. Salinger describes the moment of the narrator's epiphany: Slawenski regards this as the key passage in the story, revealing “the presence of God”, and the emergence of Zen Buddhist topics in Salinger's writing. De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, first published in the May 1952 edition of "World Review" (London). Declined by "The New Yorker" on November 14, 1951, the piece was judged too short to contain the complex religious concepts that