{"id":24,"count":39,"description":"World War II and late 1940\u2019s: 1939-1949\r\n\r\nDuring the Second World War, Picasso remained in Paris while the city was under German occupation. Due to Picasso's artistic style not fitting the Nazi ideal of art (rather, his work was classified as Degenerate Art), he did not exhibit during this time. Retreating to his studio, he continued to paint, producing works such as the Still Life with Guitar (1942) and The Charnel House (1944\u201348). In 1944, after the liberation of Paris, the then 63 year old Picasso began a romantic relationship with a young art student named Fran\u00e7oise Gilot; [read more=\"Read more\" less=\"Read less\"] 40 years younger than him.  Picasso eventually grew tired of his mistress Dora Maar. He and Gilot began to live together, eventually having two children. Due to Picasso\u2019s abusive treatment and myriad infidelities, Gilot left the artist; a severe blow to him. Afterwards, Picasso had affairs with women of an even greater age disparity than his and Gilot's. By his 70s, many paintings, ink drawings, and prints shared the theme of an old, grotesque dwarf as the doting lover of a beautiful young model; a reflection of Picasso\u2019s image of himself.\r\n\r\nLater works to final years: 1949-1973\r\n\r\nIn 1949, Picasso was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. During the 1950s, Picasso's style shifted once more, as he took to producing reinterpretations of the art of the great masters, resulting in a series of works based on Vel\u00e1zquez's painting of Las Meninas. Additionally, he based paintings on works by Goya, Poussin, Manet, Courbet and Delacroix.\r\n\r\nPicasso's final works collectively were a combination of styles: his means of expression in constant flux and variation until his final days. Devoting all of his time and effort into his work, Picasso became more daring; his works more colorful and expressive. From 1968 to 1971, he produced numerous paintings and hundreds of copperplate etchings that were dismissed by most as pornographic fantasies of an impotent old man or the sub-par works of an artist who was past the prime in his career. Only after Picasso's death, when the rest of the art world had moved on from Abstract Expressionism, did art critics see the late works of Picasso as prefiguring Neo-Expressionism.[\/read]","link":"https:\/\/focusonpicasso.com\/product-category\/late-period\/","name":"Late Period","slug":"late-period","taxonomy":"product_cat","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusonpicasso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusonpicasso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusonpicasso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusonpicasso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_cat=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}