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
George Frost (landscape painter) George Frost (landscape painter) George Frost (1754–1821) was an English landscape painter who lived in Ipswich, Suffolk. Frost was the son of a builder at Ousden in Suffolk, and was originally brought up to his father's business. He subsequently obtained a post in the office of the Blue Coach at Ipswich where he worked until about eight years before his death. Frost had a natural and early love of drawing, and was self-taught as an artist. According to his obituary in the "Gentleman's Magazine":His productions, and more particularly his Drawings, were admirable, and exhibited abundant proofs of the character and