... In the art culture, that exact principle is followed, and is led by patrons who then paved the way to the ever transforming landscape. A patron is a person who supports with money or gifts. Prior to the modern era of artists, a patron is said to be someone who usually entered into a contract with someone for a specific service or product that he/she would like. On the other hand, patronage is associated with the act of giving approval, support or endorsement towards a cause or event. Two patrons that I have identified are Pablo Picaso and Jeff Koons. Pablo Picaso (25 October, 1881 – 8 April, 1973) is recognized as one of the most influential and recognized figures of the 20th century due to his contributions to art. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer to name a few. Born in Spain, he studied from his father who was also an artist, professor at the school of fine arts, and curator for the museum in Malaga. Pablo had moved to Paris in 1901, where he practiced new styles and experiment with a variety of art forms. Through this period is where he began his work in surrealism and cubism(objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form depicting the subject from various viewpoints) style which he was the founder of. He was also linked to the co-invention of collage. Many of his later famous pieces has derived from this practice. His works are categorized into periods from the Blue Period, the rose period, African...
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...Neil.L Guernica American has been through many wars throughout the years. You can hear and learn about wars through textbooks, libraries, classrooms, and websites; but what about pictures and the art museums. A picture is worth a thousand words, and that is exactly what Pablo Picasso did with his painting Guernica. Guernica is a painting by famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It was painted as a reaction to the aerial bombing of Guernica, Spain by German and Italian forces during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The Spanish Republic, government of Spain, appointed Picasso to paint a large mural about the bombing to display at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. Guernica show the anguish, horror and pain inflicted on humanity and the innocent. It shows the destructions of war and the awareness for others to remember and never forget. Guernica is a powerful painting, considered a “Masterpiece” by Pablo Picasso and has become an anti-war icon. Guernica became a very powerful art work for many reasons but, most importantly for its usage of colors and of imagery depicting the emotions the characters are showing in the painting. Guernica consists of shades of blacks, grays and whites, representing sadness, and dark emotions for the characters and the event of the bombing. It shows the pains of the innocent, a woman wailing over a dead child in her hands, a horse ripped open, tragic events with images of soldier, flames painted to signify the town on fire and people...
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...Works of Art Lisa Auler Art/101 September 16, 2012 Alyson Covino Picasso’s Seated Bather Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881. Picasso began painting at the age of 10. Picasso was a known artist and greatly known for his abstract paintings. Pablo Picasso’s painting of the Seated Bather was a portrait of his first wife Olga Khokhlova. In the first painting of his wife it showed a beautiful woman sitting on an embroidered arm chair, but after years of marriage Picasso seen his wife in a different way. In his portrait of her as the Seated Bather it showed her as a frigid cold woman with jagged teeth and a bony thin body. This portrait was made to show the tension he experienced in his marriage. “Picasso had two wives and many mistresses, all of whom had a profound effect on the work he produced during the years when he pursued, wooed and won them over-and through to the foundering of their relationships”(www.dailymail.co.uk November 19,2011 Amanda Renshaw). When Picasso loved all of these women he painted them as he saw them, beautiful, but when he became bored with them, he painted them as frightening creatures. Picasso was not out to destroy the women he loved. Painting was Picassos way of expressing himself and letting things go, just as a person might do by writing in a diary. It was his way of expressing his feelings. Picasso did not paint these portraits with the intention of them going up on museum walls. He sold them because he had to make...
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...Pablo Picasso [pic] http://www.pablopicasso.org/before1901.jsp [1] http://www.biography.com/people/pablo-picasso-9440021 [2] http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/picasso-gallery.php [3] Perceiving The Arts: An Introduction To The Humanities 10th Edition, Dennnis J. Sporre [4] Http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681444/bio [5] Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Almost every art enthusiast in the world, knew and respected him. “Picasso was Born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad on the 25th October 1881 in Malago, in southern Spain.”[1] Added to these were Ruiz and Picasso, for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish law. “He later dropped his father's surname to become simply Pablo Picasso.” [1] Even though he was born Catholic, Picasso later became an atheist. A serious and prematurely world-weary child, the young Picasso possessed a pair of piercing, watchful black eyes that seemed to mark him destined for greatness. "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope,'" he later recalled. "Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."[2] Some sources say his first words were “piz, piz,” a childs attempt to say “lapiz” which means pencil in Spanish. His father was himself an artist...
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...Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a celebrated painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts five prostitutes in a brothel, in the Avignon Street of Barcelona. The controversial eye-catching painting now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Les Demoiselles d Avignon work represents a major milestone in the history of modern art. Picasso's controversial and powerful painting broke all traditional concepts and perspective of ideal beauty. It distinguished him from other artists and ushered in the new artistic movement of cubism. In the months leading up to the painting's creation, Picasso struggles with the subject -- five women in a brothel. In 19th century art, prostitutes played a significant role as they were regarded as subversive and disruptive to the social and sexual status quo . Picasso's awareness of this theme must be remembered when examining this work since it aided the painting in becoming the most important artwork of the century. The painting began as a narrative brothel scene on Avignon Street in the city of Barcelona where Picasso was a young up and coming artist. Here he created more than 100 sketches and preliminary paintings before his final design. Initially the painting had five naked prostitutes and two men, a patron surrounded by the women, and a medical student holding a skull, perhaps symbolizing that "the wages of sin are death. " The sailor seemed to be walking into this curtained room where the ladies stand and the woman on the far left now...
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...Simons 1 Peyton Simons Mr. Bruhnke English I 19 April 2013 Heartbreak--Real or True? In many ways, we are the love of one's own life. Many times, we forget ourselves even when we neglect ourselves for another. Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott explain their heartbreak in many different ways, but also in similar meanings. Walcott's way of explaining his heartbreak after love is powerful, appreciated, and understood. For example the "mirror" that a person owns represents not only a literal mirror, but also the "mirror" to a person's soul. Mirrors can be two-sided and for those who stare too long at one side (or one love). Walcott appears to cope with heartbreak by realizing reconnecting and learning to love yourself, only then can you truly love someone else. Walcott believes that one must embrace two sides as they are both equally important to who they are. Neruda appears to not cope as well as he ends his poem. For example, when Neruda writes "Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her", this effect on the reader is powerful in one swift moment. Neruda does end up surviving the heartbreak and realizes that he is better without her. He appreciates the highs of the relationship and she will make him suffer no more. Simons 2 The strong imagery and literacy devices used by Walcott is much more descriptive in my mind. One that stands out is the example of the mirror and the enhancing one's own image is far more...
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...El Cartel de Medellin Organized crime has been a problem since the early 1900s and has grown to become a major problem for law enforcement. The start of organized crime is known to be part of the prohibition from the early 1920s. In the 1920s organized crime groups were first known to society members as gangs. Most gangs were known to be immigrants from the same group that gather together to commit illegal crimes on other society members or the government. In the United States, organized crime is also known as racketeering. In 1970, congress passed an act known as the RICO act. RICO stands for "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act” (Organized crime, 2003). This act made it easier for law enforcement officials to prosecute individuals who have not committed a crime but has been found guilty of being the head person in charge of an organized crime group. In order for a organized crime group to succeed in a committing crime, history proves that blackmail, bribery, and other forms of manipulation have been used by gang members to gain what they want form society members. One of the best ways that organized crime groups have continued to succeed in the United States is because they have been known to have connections with many different levels of law enforcement and within the government. Organized criminal groups are known to be the main contributors of drug trafficking. Today the types of crimes committed by organized crime groups have grown. As organized crime...
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...Meadows Museum – SMU Dallas From the Gene and Jerry Jones Great Hall, where a canvas oil painting of Nude Lady Removing Garter, by Jane Doe, to the permanent collection of Cubist style paintings by Pablo Ruiz Picasso and Diego Maria Rivera; The Meadows Art Museum at SMU was an eye-opening experience even for the most cynically skeptical and unrefined of visitors as myself. The building itself is unremarkable, although clean and very symmetrical with its classic box-style museum aesthetics, it is highlighted with five two-story arches covering the loggia and wide stone stairs leading to the main façade. This two-story collegiate Georgian red brick edifice gives proper backdrop as the plaza is adorned by the Wave; a perpetually moving sculpture with a reflecting pool designed by internationally renowned Spanish architect, engineer, and sculptor Santiago Calatrava. The “Wave” design has a large pool with long bronze bars running its length. The bars are linked mechanically and move in sequence, creating a four-cycle wave motion above the pool of water. Although I was unable to visit the museum at night, I did see a photograph of the sculpture during the evening hours as the pool and lighting provided illumination from beneath the structure. They had my attention. As I walked into the foyer, the main lobby had a grand staircase leading to the second floor where the Meadows collection is on display. Before going upstairs, I was able to enjoy the artwork on the first floor...
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...his companions that he was involve with throughout his live. Then he married again to Jacqueline Roque in 1961, when he was in his eightieths. He had many women’s in which he was involve with and keep a great novel of his affairs while he lived. Picasso never gave interview at all even thou he was famous for his work. He accomplished many things in his life as a painter which was a ceramic painter in 1947 and decorated many pieces as well. In 1935, he took and Englishmen in nature of art. In 1909 and 1910, Picasso worked with Braque to experiment with style of virtually looks. This is some of his accomplishment of his life journey of a painter. Critical Analysis The pieces that I will be analysis are the “Girl Before a Mirror” by Pablo Picasso. My opinion is a girl looking into the mirror seeing her self-different for the self-image of imperfect body in her mind. How our body change over the years and the stages we endower over the years. We see ourselves in many ways that other will view our appearances thought out our lives. I would have never known exactly what the painting meant until I read about the how he can to that...
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...Pablo Escobar was the cruelest and most brutal drug kingpin Columbia had ever seen. He was also the most intelligent. By being so intelligent he was able to become the seventh wealthiest man in the world and was able to build an empire that supplied cocaine to 80% of the world’s population. Through intimidation, fear, control, manipulation and brutality one of the world’s largest drug cartels rose in power over the citizens and government of Columbia and these characteristics is what also drove the Medellin cartel to its collapse in 1993. Pablo Escobar was born on December 1, 1949 to a peasant farmer and a school teacher. After many years as a small time criminal, Escobar saw an opportunity to become what he had always wanted; wealthy and powerful. Escobar realized the money he could make with coca paste. He would “buy the coca paste in Bolivia or Peru, smuggle the paste back into Columbia, grind the paste into cocaine and then transport it for sale in the U.S and many other countries.”(1) In 1976, Pablo Escobar murdered his way to the top of the Medellin cartel by killing off the cartel’s original kingpin, Fabio Restrepo. With this new position opened, Escobar now had sole control over Columbia’s cocaine trade. With his election into Columbia’s Congress in 1982, Escobar had a political advantage over his rival, The Cali Cartel. With his new found political power, Escobar could now reach his murderous hand into every corner of Columbia and every country beyond Columbia, including...
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...Critical Review of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Constantly updating and mastering his style, he was known as the pioneer of cubism (“Pablo Picasso Biography”). By his death in 1973, over twenty-two thousand pieces of wok have been documented (“Pablo Picasso and his Paintings”). The Life of Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso was born in 1881, in Spain. Pablo Picasso, as he known by, was the son of Don José Ruiz Blasco, a painter and art teacher with whom Picasso studied under until he was thirteen years old, when he surpassed his father’s skill. When he was fourteen, his family moved to Barcelona, where he accepted into the city’s school of fine arts, despite the school generally only accepting older students. Two years later, Picasso moved to Madrid to attend the Royal Academy of San Fernando which only lasted two years due to the school’s lack of variety to appeal to Picasso (“Pablo Diego José…”). In 1901, Picasso moved to Paris to open his own studio. He found it to be the ideal place to practice new styles and art forms (“Pablo Picasso Biography”). From that point in his career he began his “Blue Period,” from 1901 to 1904. Depressed and lonely from the death of his close friend, Carlos Casagemas, blues, blacks, and grays dominated his pictures depicting poverty isolation, and...
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...Joan Miro was born on 1893 in Spain and he was a Spanish artist for the twentieth century. When he moved to Spain in 1919 after the World War I he met other struggling artist including Pablo Picasso who is also a Spaniard like Miro. Most of the artists there were Surrealist which is working with dreams, memory, and abstract. Joan Miro was a surrealist who created abstract art of people. He would use simple lines and flat, bright colored shapes to create his work. The reason Joan miro used abstract symbols was because after he graduated high school at the age of 17 he got sick and had to go to a families barn to recover but while he was there he used his surrounding such as the sun, plants, a ladder, and animals which was represented as realistically. In most of his art you will see a circle or lots of circles, this was his favorite shape. In one of his artworks called dog barking in the moon he created an image of a ladder going into the dark sky of going nowhere, the grotesque looking dog who is howling at the distorted moon, and a mysterious bird like figure above the ladder. He creates images like this to let the viewers use their imagination to figure out the haunting visual image. Joan Miro became famous for making a self portrait out of the style of abstract and then later he painted another self portrait of himself but more realistic but still has a little abstract. People loved his artwork because of the shapes and the bright colors and the thick bold lines in his...
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...“Isabelle Allende” While working as a translator, translating English novels to Spanish, Isabel Allende was fired for taking it upon herself to change the female protagonist to make her seem more self-sufficient, charitable, and smart. Furthermore, it comes as no surprise that several of her novels revolve around the theme of women challenging male authority. Her themes center on women’s experiences as well as magic and mysticism and stem from her own life experiences. Isabel Allende was born to father Tomas Allende, Chilean diplomat in Peru, and Francisca Llona Barrios on August 2, 1942. At age 3 her father “disappeared” and Barrios was forced to take on the role of mother and father. So she chose to relocate with her three children to Chile. This would be the first of many “homes” for Allende. In fact, she moves so much during an interview she stated, “I have been a foreigner all my life” (Sethi). However, the decision to constantly relocate was not always voluntary but rather necessary. For instance, in 1973 when she was contracted by a military coup, that had brought Augusto Pinochet to power, to help people who were on the wanted list escape. This ceased when Allende discovered her name on the list at which point she decided to flee to Venezuela where she held residence for 13 years. Even though some of her travels hold unpleasant memories one that brought her much joy was her trip to California in 1988. Here she met her second husband Willie Gordon. Allende’s first...
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...ART - 111 - Z90 Professor Isaac Talley Title : Compare and Contrast Final ART Essay Word Count : 1,095 Two phenomenal artists, two totally different styles, and two magnificent paintings. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the great Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh as well as their beautiful and famous paintings, "Guernica" and "Starry Night". Guernica, was painted by the famous and well-known Spanish Artist, Pablo Picasso. During the Spanish Civil War, the nationalist general Francisco Franco, who would later become the country's ruler, allowed German and Italian planes to test their bombing tactics on Guernica and learn about the psychological effects of air warfare. More than 1,000 civilians were killed in three hours of the bombing. News of the attack quickly spread to Paris, where Picasso read stories and saw photographs of the devastation" (Dewitte, Larmann, and Shields, 545)3. So the back story and reason to why this piece of art was painted was a reaction to the aerial bombing in Guernica, Spain by Italian and German troops during the Spanish Civil War in 1937, Picasso was asked to paint a recreation about the bombing on a greatly sized mural to show off at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, France. This painting shows the hardships that come along with war as well as the devastating destruction that it causes a lot of innocent people. Guernica is a large oil painting (25.6 feet wide) that is white, black, and grey...giving it a dark vibe of destruction...
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...HUMMANITIES O ART Cubism was truthfully a world-shattering style of art developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques. It was the first style of abstract art which progressed at the beginning of the 20th century in response to a world that was changing very quickly. Cubism was an attempt by artists to invigorate the exhausted traditions of Western art which was thought to have run their course. The Cubists tested orthodox 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 replicated the modern times. Geometric abstraction became popular early 20th century as well however, it was divided into two clear versions. The Gestural abstractionist who build their style loosely on the post-impressionist. Much like Cezanne who created non-objective art focusing on the hand of the artist for illusions of depth. Then you had the artist who mimicked the “it is what it is” essentialism of Euclidean. (Goldstein, 2014) These movements were similar and transformed the world into stark shapes, lines and angles. It was a stark move into the modern ages. It a way to expression similarly the felling of wanting to radicalize the time and move away from the time of Bibliography art lessions. (n.d.). Retrieved from artfactory.com: http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/cubism.htm Goldstein, A. M. (2014, august 18). what makes geometric arbstaction so exciting. Retrieved from artspace...
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