In the early years of 1900, two artists decided to use a special form of communication, not by words, but by colors. Pablo Picasso started his journey in 1902 with his main focus on human misery, sadness, and distress. Here, he started mainly using the color blue to demonstrate feelings which was the turning point to make the color blue more than a basic shadow color. Living between Paris and Barcelona, the artist discovered all shades of blue and initiated the blue period of his art and paintings. Not only the color was talking a lot here, but also the characters which Picasso painted expressed more than sadness: women were portrayed sadly and wearing a veil to enhance the feeling of grief.
essence of love and friendship hiding beneath a clown‘s uniform. With painting softer and with more details, Picasso inivtes us to get to know the essence of life. Wassily Kandinsky decided to choose a special path, too. He left the world of objectives and came up with a new color and shape language. He formed a group called the blue rider, where the color blue symbolizes yearning spiritual completion. Kandinsky taught color studies at the famous Bauhaus school and he was a genius, when it comes to colors and their symbolism. He differentiated between physical and psychological effects and put the colors contrastive face to face. For example blue versus yellow: blue is associated with the sky, After a little recovery, Picasso slowly coldness, and calm— yellow which retransformed his mood and feelings to presents warmth, aggression, and edgy. something more positive by painting more pink shades in addition to the sad, Not a power couple, but some color tones just work together. but calm blue. So in 1904/1905, more brown and greyish pink shades come into It is interesting to see that there have bethe picture and the figures changed en people before us who desperately slowly too. We can still witness empty think about color and what it can express looking faces, no emotions, but the artist to the outside world. Especially translamoved also on demonstrating us real ting feelings seems to be so normal when people and their profession, just like his thinking about colors and their natural special periods of covering circus life and effortless way of communicating without harlequins. A funny symbol, but actually thinking. Let the colors talk. so much deeper to understand—it is the 21
