...renowned artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Picasso made a radical departure from traditional European painting through the adaption of primitivism and the abandonment of perspective (Gibson, 1995). Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon was influential in the early development of cubism and modern art, however this work of art led to a widespread resentment and discord amongst the people closest to him (Gibson, 1995). My research intends to walk readers through Picasso’s life emphasizing how his work reshaped 20th Century Art, as well as, the influences coming from Primitive art during this period. Picasso the man, a young inspiring artist arrived in Paris from Spain at the turn of the 20th century leaving family, friends and business contacts behind. By 1904 Picasso, determined to make a name for himself now fully settled in Paris, had gotten several studios off the ground, while building important relationships with friends and other artists (Daix,1988) Picasso’s groundbreaking recognition came between 1901 and 1904 for what’s known today as his blue period paintings. The blue period was a time of poverty and desperation based on what Picasso witnessed during the beginning of the 20th century in Spain and Paris his paintings reflected a time of blueness and despair (Daix, 1988). Picasso himself admitted that he began to create paintings during the blue period as a result of the death of Spanish painter, Carlos Casagemas. Casagemas, not only a colleague but a good friend of Picasso’s, who committed...
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...The Evolution of Picasso Pablo Picasso was born in the Spanish coastal town, of Malaga on October 25, 1881 to parents Jose Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso Lopez. Picasso was known to be a genius by the time he was ten years old, which was when he painted his first picture. He would go on to paint very many paintings and the first of these were focused on bullfighting; the significance is in the fact that he had been exposed to it since he was 3. When Picasso turned 15, he entered the Barcelona’s School of Fine Arts, where his father was an art teacher. That is where he really learned to paint. Soon after entering the school he won a gold medal for his very realistic painting of a doctor, a nun, and a child at a sick woman’s bed entitled, “Science and Charity”. There was a rumor that one day Pablo’s father asked him to finish the pigeons in a picture he was working on. They say Pablo painted them so well that his father put down his paintbrush and never painted again. His father realized the talent that his son had. In 1899 Picasso quit his academic studies and joined the circle of young avant-garde artists and writers who gathered at the local tavern. There they worked on all different styles of art. In 1900 Picasso had his first solo exhibition, which included many different styles of art. Also in 1900, Picasso began traveling back and forth to Paris before settling there in 1904. While in Paris he began painting pictures from the streets of Paris and Barcelona. He would...
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...SO - Biography Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on the 25th of October, 1881 and died on the 8th of April, 1973 (91 years old). He was born in Spain, and he was known as a painter and sculptor. Picasso has created 20,000 amazing artworks. He is best known as the co-founder of Cubism. Pablo breaks up objects and re-assembles them in an abstract and geometric form. Picasso had four children with three different women. In 1972, a number of his artworks were shown in an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris. When Pablo was 8 years old he created his first oil painting called “The Picador”. Artworks Guernica - 1937 (year), Oil on canvas (medium), 349.3cm x 776.6cm (dimensions) Les Demoiselles d’Avignon - 1907 (year), Oil on canvas (medium), 243.9cm...
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...As the lights in the lecture hall darken, thirty or so sleepy faces tilt up toward the bright, intently watching the white screen as it descends from the ceiling. This is a typical scenario for the freshman art students’ Tuesday lecture class, but on this one particular day, we are collectively able to muster an unusual amount of enthusiasm for this lecture. The reason? Quite simply, Pablo Picasso. Father of Analytical Cubism, one of the chief figures in modern art, as well as being one of the most well known and most popular, Picasso stands as a towering idol and inspiration to many of us as we recount his history. However, as the lecture goes on, I found out an interesting fact about the painter that took me by surprise. Whenever I though about Picasso and cubism, I had always assumed the style had been his own invention; an original, new way of painting that had come to him from some divine form of inspiration. It was revealed, in that dark room surrounded by other artists and victims of inspiration, that Picasso’s square, blocky, misshapen figures were created from the likeness of African art, or more specifically, African masks (“Picasso”). Admittedly, it is certainly not the most shocking thing I’v ever heard, and I wasn’t in any state of disbelief, but a familiar, uneasy feeling did come over me. I have a strong affinity toward many different forms of rock music, installed into me by my parents and the Beatles at an early age. And soon after I began to learn about the...
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...one of the greatest painter who has encountered and overcome so many difficulties in the world in order to achieve his dream. Pablo Picasso has been a talented painter who had tried to demonstrate different part of the world in his painting, and who has been the most popular painter in the world. My work is about the famous artist Pablo Picasso. He was born in 1881, originated from Spain. Picasso was one of the most influential and greatest paint/sculptor of the 20th century. Picasso was very radical in his work that is why he impacted the modern and antic art with his unparalleled magnitude. His work coved the intellectual, social and political figures which sent strong messages to the universe. He has done more than 20,000 art work including drawing and ceramics. Picasso was born for art, he was very successful. In contrast of many other painters, Picasso has start working on his dreams in his dream when he was very young. But the beginning as hard as well which makes that“during 1893 the juvenile quality of his earliest work falls away, and by 1894 his career as a painter can be said to have begun” (Art Experts, n.d.). After that, he begun to follow his father who was a teacher. His painting career has been characterize by different stages that have been named by experts as: Blue period, Rose period, African influenced period of art, Analytic cubism period of art, and classicism and surrealism period of art. All these times were used by Picasso to determine different stage...
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...Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris with great talent. Picasso wanted to create something different from the art of the high and powerful royalty. Schama says “Modern arts was modern because it turns its back on those grand standing histories painted for aristocrats and kings”. “Portrait of King Philip IV of Spain” by Diego Velasquez depicts royalty and honor on a horse with pride in King Philip’s eye. Pablo Picasso paints a related piece called “Boy Leading a Horse”. It is of a naked boy leading a barebacked horse. This painting does not imply a hero like in “Portrait of King Philip IV of Spain”. This is only one example of how Pablo Picasso went against the art norms. Around 1910 Picasso switches from beauty and history to something even more impressive. Picasso started painting in “a different vision from what things really are - cubism” (Schama). He felt that everything contained hard lines and images that can be put into boxes. In Paris, in the 1920’s, Pablo Picasso was a highly praised and successful artist. He lived in and elegant apartment with his wife, Olga, and son, and “all of art was his kingdom” (Schama). Schama says that Picasso was “drunk on self confidence and cleverness, he could take it wherever he fancied” (Schama). In 1927, Picasso meets Marie-Thérèse, and she becomes his lover and inspiration. The first painting of here is titled “The Dream” and depicts her sensually and gently masturbating. While Marxism is rising to power and politics are on everyone’s...
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...CUBISM 'Factory, Horta de Ebbo', 1909 (oil on canvas) PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) 'Factory, Horta de Ebbo', 1909 (oil on canvas) Cubism was a truly revolutionary style of modern art developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques. It 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. Cubism was an attempt by artists to revitalise the tired traditions of Western art which they believed had run their course. The Cubists challenged conventional forms of representation, such as perspective, which had been the rule since the Renaissance. Their aim was to develop a new way of seeing which reflected the modern age. POP ART Andy Warhol – Mickey maus the early morning of July 18 in Stockholm, a major theft occurred. Unknown broke the door to the museum Aberga (Abergs Museum), stormed inside and stripped from the walls of famous works of masters of the pop art of Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol) and Roy Lichtenstein (Roy Lichtenstein). Robbers also took a poster to the old film The New Spirit, probably thinking that this is also Warhol. Police are looking for villains in the entire Stockholm, but the search has not yielded results. Stolen masterpieces of pop art experts estimated in 500 thousand dollars. The museum is named after the famous Swedish filmmaker, artist and musician Lasse Aberga (Lasse Aberg). In the 1960's, he was carried away by pop-art aesthetics, and in 1970 started...
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...INTRODUCTION In all of human history, art has mirrored life in the community, society, and the world in all its colors, lines, shapes, and forms. The same has been true in the last two centuries, with world events and global trends being reflected in the art movements. The decades from 1900 to the present have seen the human race living in an ever shrinking planet. The 20th century saw a boom in the interchange of ideas, beliefs, values, and lifestyles that continues to bring the citizens of the world closer together. Technological breakthroughs From the Industrial Revolution of the late 1800s, the world zoomed into the Electronic. Age in the mid-1900s, then into the present Cyberspace Age. In just over 100 years, humans went from hand-cranked telephones to hands-free mobile phones, from the first automobiles to inter-planetary space vehicles, from local radio broadcasting to international news coverage via satellite, from vaccinations against polio and smallpox to laser surgery. Social, political, and environmental changes There has been migration across the globe, allowing different cultures, languages, skills, and even physical characteristics of different races to intermingle like never before. The 20th century also suffered through two World Wars, and several regional wars in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. There was the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Asian economic crisis of the 1990s. Considered the modern-day plague, AIDS has afflicted...
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...The Surrealism Art Movement Art Essay Surrealism is defined as a 20th century art movement which represented the subconscious mind of the artist. This style of painting involved creating fantastic imagery and ideas that seemed to contradict each other. In a surrealistic work of art, the world of dream and the world of fantasy are joined in the everyday. Surrealistic work can have a very rational, along with an irrational style. The surrealistic movement was first founded by Andre Breton in his painting titled Manifesto of Surrealism. Along with Breton, many other artists who have used surrealism in their paintings have previously belonged to the Dada movement. Surrealism was practiced with the use of various forms of expression. Salvador Dali, for example, used dreamlike perceptions of space as well as dream inspired images in order to create surrealistic images. Such artists have been labeled by the name of "verists" because their paintings were perceived as transformations of the real world. Salvador Dali's contribution to the surrealistic world was a "paranoiac-critical method." As it is stated by Aaron Ross; "The paranoiac critical method provides a window into that unknown world of unconscious, and yet does not present the danger of psychic inundation". This method was responsible for Dali's famous double images. It required the artist to perceive and paint different images within a single shape. "Dali was capable of examining his own 'paranoiac' perceptions and interpretations"...
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