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
Antimenes Painter Antimenes Painter The Antimenes Painter was an Attic vase painter of the black-figure style, active between circa 530 and 510 BC. The real name of the Antimenes Painter is not known; his current name is an archaeological convention. It is derived from the Kalos inscription on a "hydria" in the archaeological museum of Leyden. Of the 150 works ascribed to him, the majority are "hydriai" and standard amphorae. Most works attributed to him were found in Etruria. He is considered to have been connected with the workshop of Andokides. He depicted the current repertoire of his period: the adventures of