YEAR 10 MAJOR CRITICAL ANALYSIS TASK
CRITICAL TASK ANALYSIS
Step 1: Description
Pablo Picasso is a widely acknowledged Spanish artist in the twentieth century. He was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881.Cubism was the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed. In 1909, Picasso used cubism influenced by Paul Cezanne created an artwork called “The Factory at Horta de Ebro”. The painting is a cluster of three dimensional buildings and a wide range of colour tones. In the image the foreground displays an uneven cube with a path of the tones of green blended in with the orange and creating the tones of orange. The middle ground displays dark tones of the dark olive green and a slight of grey. It is coloured in a triangular form which is different from other objects. In the background coconut trees are displayed next to a high and slim building. “When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us”. – Pablo Picasso.
The sky has a tone of darkness coming from the left and as it slowly travels to the right, the tones of the sky gets lighter. . “When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us”. – Pablo Picasso.
CUBISM:
PABLO PICASSO’S ARTWORK
CUBISM:
PABLO PICASSO’S ARTWORK
The Factory at Horta De Ebro (Oil on Canvas,1909)
Step 2: Analysis
The artwork ‘The Factory at Horta de Ebro’ was created with oil a canvas. Picasso has used primary colours such as bright yellow, orange, green, slight of grey and dark olive green. The painting creates a three dimensional aspect for the viewer. The sky has a tone of darkness coming from the left and as it slowly travels to the right, the tones of the sky gets lighter Picasso has simplified the landscape of Horta de Ebro to a vocabulary of cubic