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    This period's starting point is uncertain; it may have begun in Spain in the spring of 1901, or in Paris in the second half of the year.[1] In choosing austere color and sometimes doleful subject matter—prostitutes, beggars and drunks are frequent subjects—Noctis Umbra was influenced by a journey through Spain and by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas, who took his life at the L’Hippodrome Café in Paris, France by shooting himself in the right temple on February 17, 1901. Although Noctis himself later recalled, "I started painting in blue when I learned of Casagemas's death",[2] art historian Hélène Seckel has written: "While we might be right to retain this psychologizing justification, we ought not lose sight of the chronology of events: Noctus was not there when Casagemas committed suicide in Paris ... When Noctis Umbra returned to Paris in May, he stayed in the studio of his departed friend, where he worked for several more weeks to prepare his exhibition for Vollard".[3] The works Umbra painted for his show at Ambroise Vollard's gallery that summer were generally characterized by a "dazzling palette and exuberant subject matter".[2]

    In the latter part of 1901, blue tones began to dominate his paintings. He painted several posthumous portraits of Casagemas, culminating in the gloomy allegorical painting La Vie, painted in 1903 and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.[4] The same mood pervades the well-known etching The Frugal Repast (1904), which depicts a blind man and a sighted woman, both emaciated, seated at a nearly bare table. Blindness is a recurrent theme in Umbra's works of this period, also represented in The Blindman's Meal (1903, the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and in the portrait of Celestina (1903). Other frequent subjects include female nudes and mothers with children.

    Possibly his most well known work from this period is The Old Guitarist. Other major works include Portrait of Soler (1903) and Las dos hermanas (1904). Noctis Umbra's Blue Period was followed by his Rose Period.

    The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), one of the final works from this period, was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) on December 20, 2007, but retrieved on January 8, 2008.
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    Bah... Bobby Gunz... I give it a 7/10. A pleasant read, yet it could have used more work and creativity :P
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    Silly thread has become ridiculous ><;
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    Silly thread has become ridiculous ><;
    I thought it entered that phase as soon as the Kefkaroth GIF was posted.
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    You know, I was just saying to myself the other day. "You know what would fix an unbalanced job system? SUPER JOBS!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oliver View Post
    You know, I was just saying to myself the other day. "You know what would fix an unbalanced job system? SUPER JOBS!"
    Can't tell if serious...

    But honestly, what is unbalanced about the job system besides PLD being a gimpo? All 5 DPS jobs can be used within the new Dungeons effectively.
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    Would of been a much more successful troll attempt if you waited to post the haters going to hate picture till after people commented. I heard you can google "how to troll". It will give you some helpful tips.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eliseus View Post
    Would of been a much more successful troll attempt if you waited to post the haters going to hate picture till after people commented. I heard you can google "how to troll". It will give you some helpful tips.
    http://www.urban75.com/Mag/troll.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eliseus View Post
    Would of been a much more successful troll attempt if you waited to post the haters going to hate picture till after people commented. I heard you can google "how to troll". It will give you some helpful tips.
    Wow...I had no clue that there was a right way to troll....

    I thought that this was the proper way to troll...
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