Spain has produced some of the world-class painters. Francisco de Goya and Pablo Picasso exist among the ranks of Spain’s most internationally acclaimed artist. These two influential artists use their artwork as a platform to protest against social injustices. Goya and Picasso, works can be understood to address Social Protest Art, but artist handles the subject in their own unique way. Goya and Picasso were both prolific artists of their times, offering works of great visual travesty of the glories of warfare and bloody victory.…
Picasso and Braque were the first artist to depict cubism style. Art pieces placed in the Analytic Cubism movement often demonstrate the use of overlapping geographic facets to depict images of neutral subject matters, such as still life or portraits. The use of harsh edges and straight lines was something hardly used in previous art movements, making cubism the path runner for modern art movements…
The untitled Picasso at Daley Plaza is the iconic symbol of Chicago to the rest of the world, but Pablo Picasso himself never visited Chicago. While Picasso seemed pleased to gift Chicago with artwork as he was also doing a piece for another “gangster city,” Marseille, France, all else is shrouded in mystery. Any analysis needs to consider that there can be no definitive conclusions; only suppositions about the true meaning of this work. The “abstract form” of the untitled Picasso will always provoke more questions than answers since Picasso left the concept and his motivations unclear, possibly to keep viewers intrigued.…
Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon after a notorious place of prostitution. The viewer is both attracted to the advances of the demoiselles, yet at the same time, recoiled with the horror of these prostitutes. This art belongs to a style of art known as Cubism. The savage, inhuman heads of the figures are the direct result of Picasso's recent exposure Iberian art from the sub-Saharan, Western African region. The emphasis on abstraction, flatness and angularity prevalent in the painting are attributes of Iberian art. Through this painting Picasso has lost the interest of naturalistic curves of the anatomy and has chosen to create planes. The figures seem flat, two-dimensional and weightless. We can divide the painting into portions, i.e., the three-fifths on the left and the two-fifths on the right. The left hand portion relates to the colors of the Rose period, while the shift in colors towards blue on the right is reminiscent of the Blue period. The primary difference between the left and the right sides however lies in the heads of the two…
The whole painting overall is quite busy and artist put lots of details in each component. Human’s figures are large and take almost the whole space of the painting. They are arranged in a classic “golden triangle”, which gives a sense of visual utility. The most centered is a figure of Helena, who’s dressed in a large, puffy dark dress with deep, revealing décolleté. Comparing to others, she takes more space on the painting. The main accent is on her face, neck, and chest. In contrast to the whole outfit, her light-toned skin, peachy cheeks and dark eyes are glowing. Each line, each shadow, made by the artist, captures ease and grace of her moves.…
In the gallery, it was displayed on a white wall, in a 1181 x 1663 x 62 mm frame. The initial bright colours of the painting caused it to stand out, and the abstract shapes made it obvious that Picasso was the artist. The painting is rather vulgar, as the woman is laying in a reclined position, where all of her assets are on display. In most of Picasso's work, he tries to represent and show off beauty within his artwork, where as this image crosses beauty with what may also be seen as violence. Within the oil painting, there is a lot of reds and blues. The red may represent passion, domination and danger, with the blue representing coldness, sorrow, insecurity or innocence. As it is abstract, it means that everyone will interpret the artwork differently, as everyone will see different meanings as the answer isn't just black and white or explained to…
Dawson street. Andy first painting was in 1937. As time has pass Andy as a little kid was sick and had to fight for life. In this case Andy had to withdraw school because he was sick. in June 9 1949 Andy moved to New york and began his carreer there. He was a magazine illustartion and advertising. In the 1950’s warhol was an early adapter of the silk screen printmaking process as a technique for making paintings. He gained fame for his whimsical ink drawings of shoe advertisment. Warhol work both as a commercial artist and later a fine artist displays a casual approach to image making. Andy began to make paintings of ionic american objects such as dollar bills and newspaper. He also sold all the soup cans for four to five million. In the 1980’s warhol was being criticzed for becomig merely a buisness artist.…
The portrait of Olga is a naturalistic depiction of Picasso’s wife. I think that the missing arm chair, the shadow, the darkness, and the paleness of Olga are a sign from Picasso that their relationship was not always so good. I assume this because from the site http://www.sapergalleries.com/PicassoWomen.html I found that their marriage had its ups and downs and they were two different people. This painting is well painted. It gives me a feeling that Olga was present when Picasso painted this portrait. This woman is beautiful and I think that Picasso would paint his wife beautifully.…
The first painting in consideration is Picasso’s 1937 oil painting, “Guernica.” Picasso was commissioned by the Spanish republican government, to paint a piece for the 1937’s world fair. Picasso’s piece was the cubism work, Guernica, an anti-war painting in response to the bombings of Guernica the 26th of April 1937. Deciphering this piece is not an easy feat, the black and white and gray colors give off a gloomy feel, death and commotion are apparent in this painting. The space is compressed and full with the many shifting perspectives, this piece gives off a feeling of alertness. Even though the work is very busy and seemingly disorganized, in closer look there is some balance in the work. If we go from left to right, the figures centralized are stable by a large triangle of light. The figures to the sides are in commotion, emotions running wild.…
This particular piece of artwork is representational because it is a natural-looking painting and has elements of everyday life within it. As you can see, the girl on the left is wearing a blue dress that is rimmed with red at the top. This painting is extremely naturalistic that when one is viewing the artwork that it seems as if the girl on the left side is following the viewer with her eyes. Her eyes seem to stand out the most in the entire painting because of this reason. La Confidence appears to have a two-point linear perspective because of the cubed seating the girls are sitting on is off to the left side of the painting. It diverts the viewers’ eye because the block is not parallel to the plane of the painting. The girl on the right portrays implied movement as she whispers a secret into the other girl’s ear. Her hand is caressing the girl on the left’s hair as she whispers this very secret. In contrast, the girl on the left appears to be extremely stiff, almost…
I’m going to tell you some history and fun facts about Pablo Picasso. Pablo was an artist, Pablo did paintings sculptures and many other things. Pablo had many different paintings one was call the weeping woman this was one of his most famous art pieces. Pablo was born October, 25 ,1881 in Malaga, spain . Pablo was great he expressed himself through the art just like the other artist did and have done to this day.…
My first reaction to the painting was a dirty, grainy, claustrophobic scene. It is cluttered with a distorted and dysfunctional group of rusty geometrical shapes ranging from square to abnormal trapeisiams, these help in creating the analytical cubism scene. Amongst the abnormal background stands and exaggerated deformed naked figure which too looks dull and worn down…
He was born in Magala,Spain.Picasso was famous for his different art periods, such as the blue periods, rose period, african art,cubism,and more.…
In the creation of Picasso’s Women of Avignon, he began adding styles from the Egyptians,the Greeks and the Cazenne’s geometric art which was showed when he began to draw his figures in all different shapes. What this meant was that Picasso was really into his study of foreign art and his usage of this foreign art.…
The horse and bull are vital characters in Spanish culture. Some critics believe the rampaging bull, a major motif of destruction here, represents Picasso’s ego. However, other critics suppose the bull symbolizes the onslaught of Fascism. Picasso said it meant darkness and brutality, presumably reminiscent of his prophetic. The mother with the dead child represents the Catholic image of the Virgin and her child. The bird, between the heads of the horse and the bull is a portrayal of broken peace. Some believe the flower in the soldier’s hand is an interpretation of a ray of hope amongst all of the destruction. The triangle in the middle of the canvas suggests the composition of a Greek temple. He also stated that “the horse dying in misery represented the people of Guernica” (Guernica). The entire scene represents Spain itself. The electric light bulb, at the top of the canvas, and the oil lamp held by the woman reaching out the window represent new and old ways of seeing (Sayre 522).…
