Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso (left picture above) painted a very artsy style of life. Born on October 25‚ 1881‚ painter‚ sculptor‚ printmaker‚ ceramicist and stage designer‚ Picasso had roamed his hometown; Màlaga‚ Spain with his mother and father‚ Maria Picasso y López and José Ruiz y Blasco and 2 sisters. At the age of 13‚ Picasso designed some of his first oil paintings‚ including
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Down for the Count is a heavy work that is used to depict the times of the Great Depression. Fletcher Martin was very distinct about what he wanted us to see and how he wanted us to see it. The subject matter is surrounded by supporting details such as the color‚ light‚ space‚ and also the size and scale. Fletcher Martin painted this using oil paint on a canvas. The painting seems to be layered but not with many colors. The painting itself is very neutral in the sense of color schemes. The most
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In the 20th century‚ new artists and forms of art arose that was both ground-breaking and controversial. Two examples of the controversial and innovative works of art are Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Picasso was not only a well-known artist in modern art but also had a distinct style for artistic creation. Stravinsky was the composer for the “most significant trends in modern music during his lifetime” (Isaacs‚ David). He went from being a neo-classical
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El cuadro que me llama la atención es Gernika por la artista Pablo Picasso. It truly catches my attention due to its unique fusion of figures‚ such as the dysmorphic features of animals and human form with faces and gestures full of enigma and strong emotions. And so‚ I would like to see and analyze Gernika in person. Gernika is the most famous work by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The painting is a 25 ft. 6in. wide and 11 ft. 5in. tall and a mural-size canvas painted in oil‚ in which a palette of
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Guernica by Pablo Picasso is an immediate response of an artist to an inhuman act of bombarding the Basque capital by German Nazis. The fact that this art piece relates to a real event in the history emphasizes its importance and the message it conveys. Picasso used a lot of symbols to convey the message hidden behind his art. One of the symbol is the electric light bulb which shines on the figures in the painting. The electric light bulb has a shape of an eye and it symbolizes that the world is
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Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002 ) is a French artist often affiliated with the Nouveaux Réaliste group. Saint Phalle grew up traveling between New York City and France. Living in arguably the world’s largest art centres‚ Saint Phalle was introduced to art at a young age and took up painting. Between 1961 and 1964‚ Saint Phalle gained popularity through the performance of her series Tirs‚ which artists like Jean Tinguely‚ Jasper Johns‚ and Robert Rauschenberg often collaborated on . Many of Saint
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The suffering of the people of Guernica. In Pablo Picasso’s mural Guernica which was created in 1937‚ he illustrates the effects of war and shows the suffering it brought to the people of Guernica. Picasso painted this mural after the German and Italian warplanes bombed Guernica during the Spanish Civil War‚ this mural is now recognized world-wide as an anti-war symbol and a symbol of peace. He uses only shades in this mural allowing no bold or bright colours inside the mural. Picasso uses cartoon
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Marcel Duchamp worked from the beginning of the 20th century through the 1960s influencing the art world in ways that no other artists can claim. He had a part‚ even if it was small in nearly every art movement from the cubists to the futurists to the dada to surrealism and through to pop art‚ creating his own genre intermitted called ready made art. Duchamp was a French Artist born in 1887 and moved to Paris in 1904 to pursue his career as a painter. Over the next twenty years he did his most
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The selected work is "Golfe Juan‚" an oil-on-canvas painted by French artist Raoul Dufy in 1927. The painting measures 33" X 40" and is currently housed at the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. In the painting‚ a single tree is rooted on a foreground terrace with a view of a seaside village that extends out onto a peninsula. Dufy utilized numerous formal elements to give "Golfe Juan" depth and interest. Lines are abundant in the painting‚ adding depth‚ texture‚ shape‚ and even for separating large
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A collage is a work of art‚ primarily in the visual art‚ made from an assemblage of different forms‚ thus creating a new whole. The process may include fabric‚ natural material‚ photographs‚ newspaper fragments and other found objects‚ glued to a piece of paper or canvas. It creates a low-relief assemblage. In the beginning of the 20th century when collage became a distinctive part of modern art‚ Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque used the collage technique in their art work. Following his colleagues
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