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Chromatic Depths of Picasso’s Blue Period
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Opaque watercolor medium favored for vivid layering effects
- 2. Obscure French term describing early layers of blue underpainting
- 4. Celestial highest heaven, metaphor for transcendent blue skies
- 5. Early photographic blueprint process producing Prussian blue prints
- 8. Catalonian town influencing Picasso’s introspective works pre-rose phase
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- 3. Ancient humoral imbalance evoked by Picasso’s dominant hue
- 6. Endocrine disorder causing enlargement, depicted subtly in somber portraits
- 7. Technique confining palette to a single chromatic family in art
- 9. Mythic symbol of eternal struggle, echoed in Blue Period themes