Obviously these women were not shaken by the fact a man was sketching them in such a fashion which goes to show that they were indeed the shunned of society. Latrec uses the setting (a dark, dirty room) to relay a feeling of poverty and deprivation. In his next painting "Alone,"" Latrec, once again pictures a low class, poverty stricken woman who appears to be some kind of factory worker or maybe even prostitute. Once again we can tell the woman is of a lower class simply for the fact that she has the sheer audacity to let anyone paint her in such a distasteful manner. She is pictured lying on a bed in a filthy room only in her under garments. She seems to be exhausted, maybe from working all day, and looks as if she is sleeping. We the viewer get a sense of this girl's loneline!.
ss and despair. Latrec's depiction of lower class living was considered risqué, crude and often vulgar but would greatly influence many future artists such as the famed Pablo Picasso. .
Pablo was born in 1881 to a poor family in Maglia, Spain. The son of an art teacher Picasso's talent was recognized at an early age. He moved back and forth from Spain to Paris where he encountered many new and different styles of painting. He was greatly influenced by the style of Latrec. From 1901 to 1903 Picasso initiated his first truly original style, which is known as the blue period. Restricting his color scheme to blue, Picasso depicted poverty stricken, depressed figures whose body language and clothing show the lowliness of their social status. In "The Old Guitarist."" Picasso emphasized the guitarist's poverty and position as a social outcast, which he reinforced by surrounding the figure with a black outline, as if to cut him off from his environment. The guitarist is compressed within the canvas (no room is left in the painting for the guitarist to raise his lowered head), suggesting his helplessness: The guitarist is trapped within the frame just as he is trapped by his poverty.