When doing portraiture artists tend to exaggerate colour and tones to get across the feelings in a picture or to exaggerate the importance of something or someone in a picture. I have chosen to compare and contrast the work of two portraits, first of all I will talk about ‘weeping woman’ by Pablo Picasso and I will secondly talk about ‘Woman with a veil’ but Raphael Sanzio.…
Pablo Picasso: Responsible for the cubist movement, inventor of sculpture, collage and other important styles.…
The incredible inspiration, Pablo Picasso once said, “He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.” Pablo Picasso was a very successful painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who led a very odd life with some extremely interesting aspects.…
This building once the seat of Parliament is now one of the second most-visited tourist attractions in Germany and was built in 1871. To get this project approved, Christo and Jeanne-Claude had to gain the Parliament 's approval. In order to do this, they personally went from office to office, and they wrote many letters to each of the 662 members. On February 25, 1995 the Parliament held a debate and after 70 minutes the project was approved. This was a huge project with 600,000 feet of polypropylene fabric that had to be fireproof and nine miles of rope used. It took seven days to wrap the building and was finished on June 24th. Over five million visitors saw this…
This paper is a formal analysis of the Marble grave stele with a family group relief sculpture. It is a pentelic marble style relief standing at 171.1cm tall carved by a master. It is from the Late Classical period of Greek, Attic which was completed around ca.360 B.C. . I chose to analyze this piece as apposed to the others because I’m mainly attracted to art and sculptures from the Greek era. The overall color used in this relief is ivory with a few cracks and pieces broken off. There is some discoloration which causes the color to come off as slightly light brown for most of the relief. The sculpture appears larger compared to the other sculptures in the art room. It represents a family which includes a man, his wife, and their child united on one high relief. There is a fourth character that is a part of the relief but she appears to be incomplete. The high relief contributes to the overall size of this sculpture by expanding the shape and proportions of all the characters. The right side is compact consisting of three of the four characters while the left is loose with just a head present.…
Pablo Picasso known as one the most influential artist of the 20th century. Picasso began life as a prodigy to his father who was an art teacher and painter himself taught him to draw. It is said that by the time Picasso surpassed his own father’s skill by the time he was age 13. Picasso attended many different art institutions in Spain and France but he didn’t stay long nor did he graduate, due to him feeling as though school teachings didn’t fully allow him to be an artist so he would skip and travel inner city where he would continue to draw.…
Many artists express their emotions through their emotions through their art making and the finished art will reflect on that specific emotion, other artists may make an image with the hope of creating an emotional response in the viewer. Pablo Picasso creates artwork that does both. Pablo is a painter, paint maker, sculptor, stage designer and poet. He was born on October 28th 1881 in Spain, Picasso started showing his passion and skill for drawing from an early age, at age 10 he created his first ever painting and since then he had created more than 20,000 other pieces of art.…
The artist named Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, better known as Diego Rivera, was and remains a prominent Mexican painter. Diego Rivera was born on the 8th of December 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico and died on November 24, 1957 in Mexico City Mexico. Recognizing their son’s artistic abilities, at twelve years old Rivera was enrolled at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts (Souter, 2). Two years after graduation the government sponsored Rivera to continue his studies in Europe.…
Suffering from mental illness and poverty, Vincent Van Gogh was able to overcome all of his problems and become one of the best artists ever known. Vincent Van Gogh influenced art in the 20th century and new styles of art. Van Gogh’s artwork was so different and creative that it was able to influence many other artists.…
Diego Rivera was born on December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico. His love of art showed early on as he began drawing as a child. Around the age of 10, Rivera was able to study art at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City. One of his early influences was artist José Posada who ran a print shop near Rivera's school. In 1907, Rivera traveled to Europe to further his art studies. There, he became friends with other leading artists of the day, including Pablo Picasso.…
Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain. He was one of the most influential surrealist painters in the world and vowed not to be forgotten. He had a very eccentric personality that went along very well with his painting style. Salvador Dali’s style of painting was so eccentric that he was expelled from the surrealist movement, but that did not stop him from painting.…
Genre paintings have always made bold statements regarding the “everyday life” of whichever time period they were completed in. Scenes could range from parties in a domestic setting in France, to bitterly realistic views of street and slum life during the Gilded Age in the United States.…
Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in a small town called Figueres in Spain near the Pyrenees Mountains. This town was also near the French border in the principality of Catalonia. Dali was from a rich family and his parents built his first studio for him when he was only a young boy. He spent his summers in Cadaques where his studio was and he lived most of his adult life in an extraordinary villa near Port Lligat.…
Edgar Degas spent almost all of his eighty-three years in the city of Paris. He was the eldest son of a prosperous banker and decided to abandon the study of law in 1855 to begin his training as an artist in the academic system. The only one out of five children to become a painter, he was something of a renegade in his family. He was a reclusive who spurned publicity of any kind, but nonetheless was known in public as a wit and a brilliant conversationalist.…
This past weekend, I decided to re-visit the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena and picked out the Reclining Nude by Jean-Antoine Watteau which dated 1713-1717 and its medium was oil on panel.…