Picasso’s Women Picasso had a love/hate relationship with women. He was not an abuser‚ physically or verbally‚ but he did not always get along with them. He also couldn’t stay with one woman for a long time. After reading articles on Picasso‚ I learned that he had major relationships with several women throughout his life and fathered four children by three of them. His tumultuous and complicated love life can be seen through his art; the women often served as his artistic muses and are the subjects
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Negativity comes to mind on the issue of war as it is heard to be brutal or fatal‚ especially on innocent people and one cannot help but to hope for an outcome of peace or prosperity. Some respectful philosophers such as Mo Tzu‚ Sun Tzu‚ Eugene Delacroix‚ Pablo Picasso‚ Margaret Mead‚ Kenzaburo Oe‚ and Jean Bethke Elshtain can be found writing about their theories on war and peace in the text book‚ Reading the World: Ideas that Matter by Michael Austin. Over the years the issue of war has not disappeared
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Quite possibly one of the most innovative and greatest artists of the past century‚ Pablo Picasso has certainly earned an important position in art history. Born in the city of Malaga on the southern coast of Spain on October 25‚ 1881‚ Picasso had a rather unprecedented start. Apparently as Picasso had told the story he was deemed a stillborn‚ as he had failed to breath‚ and was abandoned by the midwife. However‚ with an odd twist of fate his uncle—who was a doctor—was there at the time and had saved
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yourself with the following images from the text: Cimabue’s “Madonna Enthroned‚” the unknown artist’s “Rathnasambhava‚ the“Transcendent Buddha of the South‚” Jeff Wall’s “A Sudden Gust of Wind‚” Robert Smithson’s “The Spiral Jetty‚” Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica‚” Chapter 4 The function of lines The difference between organic and geometric shapes Means of defining mass in a drawn or painted work Additive color mixing (the mixing of light) Subtractive color mixing (primaries‚ secondaries
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for five ballets for Sergey Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. In the 1920s and ’30s‚ the Surrealists spurred him to explore new subject matter‚ particularly the image of the Minotaur. The Spanish Civil War inspired perhaps his greatest work‚ the enormous Guernica (1937)‚ whose violent imagery condemned the useless destruction of life. After World War II he joined the Communist Party and devoted his time to sculpture‚ ceramics‚ and lithography as well as painting. In his late years he created variations on
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depression is all available to be seen in the painting. Matisse – vast in scale‚ lush and rigorous colours. His cutouts are among the most admired and influenced works of matisse’s career. Use to speak his mined. Blue Nude was one of many. Guernica is about desperate painful times in
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New South & West Andrew Johnson (VP of Lincoln) Supported planter class (farmers) From Tennessee (South) Democrat Republican after following Lincoln Hostile to African Americans (white supremacist) Johnson’s Plan “Restoration” Amnesty for southerners who swore loyalty to Union 13th amendment needed to be ratified (ban slavery) Southern states elect representatives for Congress Rejection of Plan Too lenient Southern representatives not allowed to take seats in Congress Impeachment
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Aggression‚ Appeasement‚ and War Vocabulary Sanction – penalties Pacifism – opposition to all war Appeasement – giving in to demands of an aggressor to keep the peace Anschuss – union of Austria Dictators Challenge World Peace Japan on the Move i. One of the earliest tests had been posed by Japan. ii. Japanese military leaders and ultranationalists thought that Japan should have an empire equal to those of the western powers. iii. In pursuit of this goal‚ Japan seized Manchuria in 1931
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“Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?” By Jean-François Lyotard‚ trans. Régis Durand. NOTE: Written in 1982‚ as postscript to The Postmodern Condition (1979) A Demand This is a “period of slackening” in the “color of the times”. “From every direction we are being urged to put an end to experimentation‚ in the arts and elsewhere”. Bauhaus (1919-1933 Germany: Walter Gropius founded this movement of artists‚ writers‚ architects. Shut down by Hitler for being very radical‚ left-wing)
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to see outside the ordinary. Mencken states‚ “It is almost impossible to find any trace of an artist who was not actively hostile to his environment”—exemplifying that all artists are against society. This is shown true through Picasso’s painting "Guernica‚" Donald Justice’s poem "Death in the Rose Garden‚" and E.B. White’s essay "About Myself"‚ which all demonstrate the artist’s rebellion against environment or contemporary standards. In Picasso’s painting he created a tremendous distaste towards
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