...PABLO PICASSO Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso ; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish expatriatepainter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. He is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during theSpanish Civil War. The enormous body of Picasso’s work remains, and the legend lives on—a tribute to the vitality of the “disquieting” Spaniard with the “sombre…piercing” eyes who superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive. For nearly 80 of his 91 years Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to and paralleled the whole development of modern art in the 20th century. Picasso’s art from the time of the Demoiselles was radical in nature, virtually no 20th-century artist could escape his influence. Moreover, while other masters such as Matisse or Braque tended to stay within the bounds of a style they had developed in their youth, Picasso continued to be an innovator into the last decade of his life. This led to misunderstanding and criticism both in his lifetime and since, and it was only in the...
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...Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is considered to be the greatest artist of the 20th century. In his prolific career, which spanned 78 years, he created more than 20,000 works of art including paintings, lithographs, etchings, and sculpture. In 1947, for example, he created 2,000 pieces of ceramics and in 1968, in a seven-month period, he returned to some of his earlier themes such as circuses, and bullfights to create 347 etchings. His work encompassed many styles -- from realism to cubism and surrealism -- making it impossible to categorize into a single movement. He and fellow painter Georges Braque are credited with creating the cubist style. Another of Picasso's innovations was the creation of collage -- he pasted pieces of paper and oilcloth to a canvas and painted on the surface in a 1912 work titled Still Life With Chair Caning. Although he is best known for his innovative, cubist work Picasso had an extraordinary drawing skill, rivaling the expertise of 19th century neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain on October 25, 1881, the son of an art teacher. Prior to 1898, he used his father's name, "Ruiz," and his mother's maiden name, "Picasso," to sign his paintings. After 1901, he signed his work simply with the name "Picasso." A child prodigy, he painted his first picture at the age of ten; by...
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...PABLO PICASSO PAULA SCOTT ASHFORD UNIVERSITY ART 101 ELIA HAGGAR 03/26/2012 The Art of the early 20th century was reshaped by Pablo Picasso, because the 20th century was years of rich artistic exploration and great productivity. Picasso was born October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain son to professor of drawing José Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso Lopez. Instead of taking his father’s name he took his mothers, he became one of the greatest and most influential artist of the 20th century and creator (with George Braque) of Cubism. Picasso fell ill in the spring of 1898 and spent most of the remaining year convalescing in the Catalan village of Horta de Ebro in the company of his Barcelona friend Manuel Pallars. When Picasso returned to Barcelona in early 1899, he was a changed man; he had put on weight, he had learned to live on his own in the open countryside, he spoke Catalan, and most importantantly he had made the decision to break with his art school training and to reject his family’s plans for his future. In his work he was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist and stage designer, Picasso was considered radical in his work, after a long career he died April 8, 1973 in Mougins. Most of his work remains, for 80 of his 91 years Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that...
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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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...The Legacy of Pablo Picasso Michelle Wade HUM/102 May 4, 2015 Nye Clinton The Legacy of Pablo Picasso The nominated figure that stands out in my mind as a genius of Western culture would have to be, Pablo Ruiz Picasso he was a very dominant and dramatic artist during the beginning of the 20th century. His art referenced cubism, with the assistance of Georges Braque, collages and was influential with his contributions to symbolism and surrealism as well. Picasso viewed himself as a painter first, and then all other areas of interest just seemed to follow in suit, which were sculpture, ceramics, and print-making. The Spanish painter, sculptor, and graphic artist; Pablo Picasso was one of the most productive and revolutionary artists in the history of Western painting (Boigraphies, 2015). Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain to a creative an artistic family where he quickly grew in his fascination of painting. At a very young age he showed interest in his father’s painting and began his study of art by age eleven. One of Picasso’s first paintings that still exists today is named “The Communion.” and is dated to 1895. His early life was initiated by the best schools his family could provide for him in his chosen career, and he studied the famous Spanish Art Masters works for style and pose to integrate into his own works of art. When his family moved to Barcelona, his art seemed to blossom. He was intrigued by the ‘Art Nouveau of the Bohemian...
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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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...This analysis only includes elements and principles yours will include additional information. Use checklist for direction and ideas. Pablo Picasso's The Three Musicians A Brief Compositional Analysis by Cliff Stuckey The three musicians is a highly organized arrangement of shape and color which successfully conveys the feelings associated with musical composition. Picasso's masterpiece works on several levels, as an abstract composition based on the narrative relationships of three traditional characters in the Italian theater Commedia del Arte and as a formal design. As with most of Picasso's pieces, there are hidden meanings that are to amuse him as well as casual observers. The picture pays tribute to some of Picasso's friends whom he has associated with the characters. More important than the narrative content of the picture, Picasso follows his tendency to construct a highly controlled surface with its formal concerns of balancing the elements of shape and color. The first device he uses is an apparently symmetrical arrangement of the three figures, equally sized, with one in the center and another on each side. But he defies the apparent symmetry by making the figure on the right side very dark, while the countering figure on the left is very light. The painting achieves its balance, in part, by using extreme contrasts of light and dark, thus defying the initial instinct of the viewer and shifting the work to an asymmetrical balance. Small areas of...
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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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...Pablo Picasso’s Jacqueline Ever heard of Pablo’s Picasso “Jacqueline” master piece? No? Well now you have. Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain, Son of Jose Ruiz Blasco, an art teacher (1838-1913) and Maria Picasso Lopez (1855- 1939). Picasso grew up creating and drawing pieces of artwork, taking classes under his father at an early age. As Picasso grew so did his desire for painting, dropping his father’s surname and becoming Pablo Picasso, he began his work. Later on Picasso became a name among other artists, for his great masterpieces, the old guitarist, Guernica and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Picasso was friends with quite a few other artists, Georges Braque being one of the following. Many of their paintings were believed to always have a similar look and interpretation, they were believed to be influence by each other, this affecting how many people were effected by their movements....
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...created a new perspective and understanding of the pains and horrors of war. Pablo Picasso’s Guernica shows the catastrophes of war and the torment it inflicts upon the individual, particularly on civilians. This work has gained massive status, becoming a continuous reminder of the heartbreaks of war, and a model for peace. In 1937 a Basque town in the province of Biscay, Guernica was subjected to three hours of destruction by dozens of German and Italian bombers lead by General Francisco Franco, a Spanish military leader and statesman who ruled as the dictator of Spain from 1936 until his death in 1975. He came to power during the Spanish Civil War. More than 1,500 people were killed in a cruel act of war unmatched in European history. Picasso was asked to create an artwork by Republican Spain that would go in the Paris World Exposition. Up until two months before the exposition Picasso found himself uninspired. But as soon as knowledge of Guernica was exposed to the public Picasso swiftly made it clear to that Guernica would be his subject for the Paris Expo. He worked non stop for two months to produce the devastating display of the horrors of war in harsh black and white, measuring eleven feet high by twenty-five feet long so large that Picasso had to attach his paint brushes to long sticks to complete it. It is an oil painting on canvas, and is on display at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. Picasso completed the work of art in June, 1937The scene is filled entirely with horror...
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...Throughout history, art has been a tool for many to express themselves and the events surrounding them. The works of great artists are not only personal, but revolutionary. On occasion, paintings can influence the spectator, for better or worse. Artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and those who designed world war one propaganda, demonstrate their views and worldly perceptions to change others. Picasso’s Guernica shows the brutalities of war, as propaganda tried to hide it. Kahlo paints her life as a mexican women imposed with Western culture in Las Dos Fridas, while street art gives a loud and accessible message to those who come across it. All these examples exemplify real occurrences, that were published and used as a front for mainstream...
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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 example was important. Even after the war and the shift of the avant-garde art energy diverted to New York, Picasso remained a colossal figure, and one who could never be ignored.Though his influence undeniably subsided in the 1960s, he had by that...
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...The face of war, by Salvador Dali, "Femme en pleurs" by Pablo Picasso, are two depressing paintings. When most people view these two paintings in the first sight, they would think that they would be very different but they actually have a lot of things in common. The first painting would be seen as a disturbing, disgusting visual. The second painting would be seen as a cubical, interesting and a colourful painting. In these two paintings, there are many intentions and secret messages such as fear, ugly truth, and the lonely horror. The date of these two paintings only show 4 years difference. "Femme en pleurs" was completed in 1937, while "The face of war" was done by 1941. Surprisingly, they were both influenced by the Spanish civil war...
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...“Surrealist artists, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso were clearly influenced by their experiences of the Spanish Civil War” To what extent is this statement accurate? The rise of a revolution in 1930 Spain provoked artistic nightmarish visions in many European artists. Individual Surrealist artists responded differently, some abandoned peaceful propaganda for weapons and violence, while others, like Joan Miró, involved their artistic innovation directly in the service of the war efforts. However, artistic expressionism was the main forum by which Surrealist artists such as Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso expressed their opinions and depictions regarding the Spanish Civil War. The artists explored diverse views of fascism, death, despair, desire and hope through intricately detailed paintings heavily influenced by the war. 1930s Spain was deeply politically divided between the Nationalist and the Republicans. Generals Franco and Sanjujo led the Nationalists, right wing, with the support of the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia. Whereas the Republican parties, left wing, led by Azana were supported by the cities of Cadiz, Saragossa, Seville and Burgos. Nationalists embodied monarchists, landowners, employers, the Roman Catholic Church and the army, whereas Republicans consisted of the workers, trade union, socialists and the peasantry. The Great Depression took a heavy economic toll on Spain causing the collapse of the military dictatorship...
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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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