Femme assise dans un fauteuil noir 1962

Pablo Picasso made this painting – *Femme assise dans un fauteuil noir* – with oil paint and a whole lot of looking. Can’t you just imagine him studying the sitter, turning her into shapes and colors, trying to capture something essential? The palette is pretty muted – browns, grays, and blues – but they feel so alive somehow, right? Look at the way he’s divided her face, half in light, half in shadow, with that one staring eye. It reminds me of when I used to make portraits and would get so into the planes of the face, the way light hits and creates these crazy angles. It's like Picasso's trying to show us how the mind sees, not just the eye. I love how the blue of her dress sort of melts into the gray of the chair. It's like he’s not interested in clear boundaries, more in the way things bleed into one another. It's a reminder that painting isn't just about representation; it's about feeling, thinking, and seeing in new ways.