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.…
From the time you enter the Falk Theatre, until the curtain rises and falls on the Stageworks productions of Picasso at the Lapin Agile, you are in for a treat. The play is an original work by Steve Martin with a running time of 90minutes, which feels more like 30minutes. Aside from the uncomfortable seating, this production is nothing short of wonderful. The Theatre has been transformed from a long movie Theater atmosphere to a quaint surrounding by means of risers that are placed directly on the stage. The new seating divides the old Theater in half and allows for the actors and the audience to share the same space. Not only this atmosphere that makes it wonderful but also the performances, the direction, the design and the script.…
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…
When looking at Pablo Picasso’s “Girl Before a Mirror”, one can obviously make out a girl observing herself in front of a mirror. The woman is portrayed one way before the mirror and another way in her reflection. Picasso is obviously sending a message behind the meaning of his work. He also, more than likely, has a reason and story behind why he rendered the work of art. This message and story become useless when it is reproduced onto a computer screen, according to John Berger. In his Ways of Seeing, Berger explains how technology accompanied by today’s world has somewhat tainted the worth and overall beauty of experiencing art. One no longer has the ability to remove him or herself from reality or as Clive Bell would say, have an “aesthetic…
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 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.…
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…
Picasso used several principle and element of art while painting “Guernica”. Some of the elements include value, line, shape, color and, space. The value in the painting creates the form. The line in the piece divides the images. The images in the painting are made using shape. The color is limited using only black, white and, gray. Space is incorporated because everything in the painting is cramped and in one room. Some of the principals in “Guernica” are emphasis, balance, movement and, contrast. The emphasis is on the damage war causes to not just people but animals as well. The balance in the piece is asymmetrical. There is also implied movement throughout the entire piece as well as, contrast between the light and darks.…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
