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
Painter of Berlin A 34 Painter of Berlin A 34 The Painter of Berlin A 34 was a vase painter during the pioneering period of Attic black-figure vase painting. His real name is unknown, his conventional name derived from his name vase in the Antikensamlung Berlin. He is the first individual vase painter of the style in Athens recognised by scholarship. His works are dated to "circa" 630 BC. Two of his vases were discovered in Aegina. Since the 19th century, those pieces were on display in Berlin, but they disappeared or were destroyed during the Second World War. The artist is considered one of