through his Muses

1904-1912
Rose African-inspired

1912-1915
Analytical cubism

1917-1927
Neoclassicism

1927-1936
Surrealism

1936-1944

1943-1953
Mixed

1953-1973

Guernica 1937 Ma Jolie 1911-1912 Portrait of Fernande Olivier 1904 Portrait of Olga in the Armchair 1918 Le Rve 1932

Sketch of Franoise 1946

Jacqueline Roque 1954

La Femme Fleur 1946

Les Desmoisells dAvignon 1907

Me Encanta Eva 1913

Two Women Running on the Beach 1922

Le Miroir 1932

Weeping Woman 1937

Sketch of Franoise 1946

Portrait of Jacqueline Roque 1954

Fernande Olivier

Eva Gouel

Olga Khokhlova

Marie-Thrse Walter

Dora Maar

Franoise Gilot

Jacqueline Roque

Color Scheme:

Triadic and Complementary Cooler Colors

Fonts:
Mistral (through his Muses): I wanted to use a font similar to Picassos handwriting, and Mistral seemed to be the best fit. Rockwell: I wanted to use a readable but Sans serif font, just to make it seem more academic with authority, since that is the setting that I imagine most timelines to be in. Since Rockwell also reminded me of Norman Rockwell, another artist, I decided to use it. I like its curvature, where the fonts all seem very round but readable and fun.

Design Process:
I initially designed the poster vertically, from up to down. However, fitting the pictures into such a small vertical space was difficult, and I decided to change the art-board orientation to landscape. My main concern was the balance between horizontal and vertical lines. I already designed a horizontal header banner, and was going to do three more horizontal lines: one each for timeline, art period line, and the names of the women. To balance the horizontal lines, I created the vertical lines dividing the period that Picasso spent with each woman. The pictures then followed a natural vertical orientation. My second concern was using so many square and rectangular shapes. I couldnt help using them for all of Picassos works, but I wanted to avoid using it within my own design as much as possible. I decided to trace each of the womens photos by using the pen tool, and then added a film gradient filter to make them look more uniform. Finally, I decided to blend the colors together where two art periods overlapped, to convey that the two periods are not necessarily distinct from each other but that one flowed into another.