The weeping women

1. Structuralism Word Picture Weeping Woman

2. Structuralism Reja Fatima Roll No.3655

3. Weeping Woman Artist Pablo Picasso Year 1937 Medium Oil Canvas

4. Weeping Woman For me she is the weeping woman. For years I have painted her in tortured forms with no pleasure. It was the deep reality, not the superficial one…. Dora, for me was always a weeping woman…. And It is important, because women are suffering machines . Pablo Picasso

5. Conceptual Framework 1936 Spanish civil war. Picasso was obsessed with exploring the woman’s face and emotions conveyed through her expressions.

6. Subject Dora Maar (1907- 1997 ),  who was Picasso's lover from the mid-1930s until the end of the second world war . It has the features of a specific person, Dora Maar, whom Picasso described as "always weeping". She was in fact his close collaborator in the time of his life when he was most involved with politics.

7. Analysis This painting captured everybody’s attention because of the vibrate colors and the weeping woman’s facial expression .  She looks as though she be tortured and discriminated in a courtroom . Her face expresses pain and anguish as though she has no one in the world to talk too.

8. Analysis She’s grinding her teeth while trying to close her mouth with her hand as though she has so much to hide .  Her hair is let loose and straight as this is the only thing that may be free and not tided up . We see so much pain in her eyes as its like shattered glass and the way her eyebrows are structured .

9. Analysis The handkerchief she stuffs in her mouth is like a shard of glass . Her eyes are black apertures . Focal area is blue and white, associated with pain and anguish. Sharp lines dissecting face, shows broken feelings and broken woman.

10. Analysis The oil on canvas painting displays her loss through angles, lines and color.  C ubism elements are used.

11. Cultural Framework Hat represents middle or higher social class. Created in Spain during the world war. H andkerchief reflects time and era.