Picasso's Blue Period was done in hot, bright hues. The painting considered the first of his Blue Period, "Casagemas in His Coffin", was completed later in 1901 when Picasso was sinking into a major depression. Picasso, normally an outgoing socializer, withdrew from his friends. Picasso's bout of depression was to last several years. Picasso's career had been promising before 1901 and early in that year he was making "a splash" in Paris. However, as he moved towards subject matter such as society's poor and outcast, and accented this with a cool, anguished mood with blue hues, the critics and the public turned away
Blue-faced honeyeater Latham in his 1801 work "Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae". However, he described it as three separate species, seemingly not knowing it was the same bird in each case: The blue-eared grackle ("Gracula cyanotis"), the blue-cheeked bee-eater ("Merops cyanops"), and as the blue-cheeked thrush ("Turdus cyanous"). It was as the blue-cheeked bee-eater that it was painted between 1788 and 1797 by Thomas Watling, one of a group known collectively as the Port Jackson Painter. It was reclassified in the genus "Entomyzon", which was erected by William Swainson in 1825, who observed the "Blue-faced Grakle" as the only insectivorous member