When comparing the two paintings "Guernica" and "Les Demoiselles" by Picasso‚ there are several distinctly noticeable differences. Notably‚ the most distinct difference between the two paintings is Picasso’s use of color in "Les Demoiselles" as opposed to the predominant use of black and white in the painting "Guernica". Both paintings are obviously abstract in their style‚ yet "Les Demoiselles" displays the use of color much more drastically than in "Guernica". Each piece of the painting seems to
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Extra Credit Jon George Mrs. Dvorak College Success December 1st 2011 Babe Ruth – The homerun king for ages was Babe Ruth. He played for the New York Yankees. In his earlier years he was a right handed pitcher in the MLB but switched to a hitter. He is now 3rd on the all time homerun list behind Hank Aaron who is second and Barry Bonds. Babe Ruth was born in Pigtown‚ Baltimore. Michael Jordan – In the eyes of many people Michael Jordan was the best basketball player in the world. He
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super-elongated foosball table; at the Pope felled by a meteor and John F. Kennedy in a coffin; at Cattelan’s many scupltural self-portraits‚ often engaged in childish behavior; at an elephant dressed as a ghost (or is it a Klansman?) and a huge-headed Picasso springing from a Lichtenstein. The result is dizzying‚ thrilling‚ magical. Looking up from the ground floor‚ I saw a cascade of imagery. Taxidermied animals slumped from invisible wires. There was the mahogany horse‚ and also a donkey with a cart
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Pablo Casals Pablo Casals‚ one of the most recognizable cellists in history‚ was born December 29‚ 1876. His career was unsurpassed by any other cellist during the first half of the twentieth century. He is known for the multiple recordings throughout his career which included solo‚ chamber‚ and orchestral music‚ as well as recordings while conducting. For most cellists his most notable accomplishment was his recordings of the incomparable Bach Cello Suites which were recorded from 1936 to 1939
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fiercely competing with each other‚ Matisse and Picasso took completely different directions in their works. Interestingly‚ Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre became the most prominent painting of Fauvism. Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon‚ in turn‚ gave a foundation to the style of Cubism. Let’s look at the connection between the three paintings a bit closer. The Large Bathers by Cézanne introduced a number of new ideas in art that inspired both Matisse and Picasso. It broke the rules of traditional perspective
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Arts Appreciation 1301 Chapter 1 Quiz 1. Chapter One opens by describing the work of artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Gunpowder is an unusual material to draw with and the sky is an unusual surface to draw on! What reasons does the artist give for using gunpowder as his drawing material? Cai Guo-Qiang wished to create beauty from something like gunpowder‚ which is originally considered a force of destruction. 2. On page 3‚ the author (Sayre p.3) states: “Appreciating art is never just a question of accepting
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period of cultural crisis that defined abstraction‚ fragmentation‚ pastiche‚ tricks of perspective and surrealism in modern literature and painting: T.S. Eliot The Waste Land (Part 1)‚ W. B. Yeats ‘The Second Coming’‚ Gertrude Stein Picasso (selections) and paintings by Picasso and Dalí. Discussion includes the teaching advantages of the new iPad The Waste Land application and a range of easier novels. Modernism (about 1880 – 1939) is a cultural period defined in response to political revolution‚ international
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The natural world is one that exists outside of all human constructs and limitations‚ and illuminates a valuable reality in the world. When considering Pablo Neruda’s body of work‚ a clear thematic focus on nature is visible. Many of his poems reference the natural‚ untouched world. This is a thematic juxtaposition to the over-structured‚ artificial nature of human culture. Using nature symbolically within these poems allows for a clear distinction to be drawn between the real and the artificial
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Cited: 1. Bois‚ Yve-Alain. 1992‚ ‘The Semiology of Cubism’‚ in Rubin‚ W.‚ Picasso and Braque: A Symposium. New York: The Museum of Modern Art 2. Bronner‚ I.R. 2010‚ Cubism and Futurism: Example Tut Answer. Rhodes University. 3. Bronner‚ I.R. 2011‚ Cubism and Futurism: Lecture 1. Rhodes University 4. Frascina‚ Francis. 1993
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The (joy of life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon can be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne’s‚ because the joy of life It is a large-scale painting that has a brilliant colored forest which has been depicting an Arcadian landscape filled with‚ meadow‚ sea‚ and sky and populated by nude figures both at rest and in motion while Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon has sensual eroticism with these kinds of aggressively crude pornography that has a landscape
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