RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A grieving process illustrated?
JF Medical Humanities
JO J Med Humanit
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP medhum-2016-010874
DO 10.1136/medhum-2016-010874
A1 Rory Hutchinson
YR 2016
UL http://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2017/09/23/medhum-2016-010874.abstract
AB The sudden death of Pablo Picasso's closest friend Carlos Casagemas in 1901 came as a great shock to the young Picasso. From a young age, Picasso had ruminated on life and death; however, this was his first experience of bereavement. Following the death of Casagemas, Picasso's paintings can be seen as a diary of his grieving process and clearly illustrate the five stages of the grieving process as outlined by Kubler-Ross in ‘On Death and Dying’ (1969).