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The Old Guitarist

By Pablo Picasso


The most famous painting from Picasso's Blue Period, "The Old Guitarist" was painted when the artist was living in relative poverty. His close friend and fellow painter, Casagemas, had recently committed suicide before Picasso began work on the painting. Picasso's Blue Period often displayed the poor and miserable, and he was no stranger to such melancholy scenes.

Recent x-ray and infrared examinations have determined that there were at least two other separate paintings underneath "The Old Guitarist." Three separate subjects have been discovered: an old woman, a young mother, and a child. It is unknown why the previous paintings went uncompleted when Picasso began this work.

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+1 Prestige per unframed, +2 Prestige per framed painting

1. Author a quiz in one of the following sub-categories:
   
   Guitarists (Music)
   Bass Guitarists (Music)
   Guitar Hero (Video Games)
   Guitar (Music)
   Bands and Musical Acts (Music)
   Thematic Musical Instruments (General)
   Musical Instruments in Songs (Music)
   
   Quiz must reside precisely in one of these; not in a sub-category of one of these
   
   
2. Author a quiz containing exactly 10 questions.
   
   
3. Quiz title contains at least one of the following words:
   
   blue    sad    sorrow    mourn    down    low    glum    sorry   
   
   

Get one quiz online this month meeting at least one of the requirements above and you will get an unframed version of this painting added to your Authoring Gallery!

Get at least two quizzes online this month, meeting all three requirements amongst all of your submissions to get a framed version of this painting added to your gallery.

Only quiz templates created during February are considered for this award.

Since editing timing is uncertain, eligible quiz templates placed online during February OR next month count. In other words, if you start work on a quiz in January, but after some back-and-forth with editors it ends up delayed and goes online in February, you will still earn January's painting award.

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