Page 1 of 2 ZOOM Comparando y contrastando las MeninasBoth Pablo Picasso’s and Diego Velázquez’s painting, Las Meninas, arewell known around the world. The artists had different portrayals of this painting and different reasons for making this painting. They also had different styles of painting and one is much more vibrant than the other. They also had some similarities in the paintings. Some of these similarities are the name and who the painting is about. Other similarities are about
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In October there was an extra credit opportunity at the IMU called, “Chicana Canvas.” It really caught my attention and I decided to go because it sounded fun and interesting to me. I had the honor to meet Xuan Santos and was able to listen to his amazing presentation. Xuan Santos is from East Los Angeles and went to California State University-San Marcos (USCD). He is a very talented tattoo artist. He talked about how he got found interest in art and the idea of tattoos and how it is a permanent
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Born into an artistic family, Pablo Picasso became one of most remarkable painter and sculptor in Art history. Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881 as the eldest and only son of two siblings. His father, José Ruiz Blasco was a professor in the School of Arts and Crafts, and his mother, Maria Ruiz Picasso who is also an artist. From an early age Picasso displayed great talent for painting. In 1891, he began displaying his work at the age of fourteen when he began studying at the School of Fine
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – The Painting That Changed It All Being a volunteer at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City allows me to meet many interesting people with many different views. Today I had a group who had the pleasure of viewing Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon for the first time. They had the same reaction I did originally! It was hideous! It was not until I had done further research on the painting that I was able to see its beauty. Today was the day I took
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Walter Taylor AR115 In 1937, Pablo Picasso created a painting called the “Guernica”, oil on canvas. It was commissioned at the 1937 World Fair by the Republican Spanish government. Pablo Picasso’s paintings all tell a story, or reflect a personal meaning to Picasso. "My whole life as an artist has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against reaction and the death of art. In the picture I am painting — which I shall call Guernica — I am expressing my horror of the military caste which
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Mashell Chapeyama Topic: Art History Year 2012 Level: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Key Words: les demoiselles, Bonheur de vivre, Applied African Art Picasso and Cezanne Art evolved over many centuries to come to where it is today. Some artists copied or learned from others. That is what occurred about a century ago. Picasso and Matisse learnt a lot from Cezanne. Therefore there are similarities in the work of Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso. Matisse and Picasso took on cubists
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Reading Art – Understanding Iconography The art work that I chose was Pablo Picasso’s painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. The four roles that an artist take on is one to make us the public experience and see the world in new and innovative ways. I think that the second role that the artist takes is to make a visual record of places, places and events of their time. The third role that the artist takes on is to make functional things such as objects and structures more pleasurable and elevate these
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Samantha Barreau College of Mount Saint Vincent English 110: Writing in Context I Professor Rogers Close Analysis; “Girl before the Mirror” For this essay I chose a painting by Pablo Picasso called “Girl before a Mirror”, according to the research I had done, this painting is in connection to his mistress Marie- Therese Walter. It displays several view, depending on who’s interpreting the painting. Pablo Picasso became one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century
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On Saturday, November 4, 2017, Meadows Museum displayed an exclusive collection of paintings that put emphasis on the eventful and controversial rivalry between two of the greatest Spanish cubist artists: Picasso/Rivera: Still Life and the Precedence of Form. Lasting from August 6 till November 5, 2017, the exhibition presented the numerous and overlapping motifs, themes, and appropriation of cubist art, specifically targeting the still life and form, between them. Along with the paintings that express
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An extremely prominent figure during his time and to the 20th century in general, Pablo Picasso is not only known for his influence and contribution to the art world but also to many aspects of the cultural realm of life as well. His work in founding the Cubist movement established a set of pictorial problems, devices, and approaches, which remained important well into the 1950s. At each stage of his career, from the classicism works of the 1920s to the works produced in Paris during the 1940s, his
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