1912 Nude Descending A Staircase By Georges Braque

In Gustave Caillebotte’s painting, he uses a wide range of colors too, but these are more vibrant. The viewer is enticed to see themselves in the in the painting as there is an empty waiting to be occupied. The method of his

In the 19th century, there was an artistic transition from realism to a new form called impressionism. This change originated in France, as the world underwent a transition to industrialization. The impressionist was able to understand how light and color operate hand in hand in a painting. Instead of seeing an image as a whole work, impressionist would see smaller images making up the entire piece. The style was primarily made of the use of intense colors, open composition, light and movement and brush strokes. They were mainly

It would allow Picasso to move forward into a kind of paintingthat was totally new (Sayre 455). The painting is considered the predecessor of Cubism, anartistic style initiated by Picasso and his friend and colleague painter, Georges Braque. In Cubistpaintings, objects are broken apart and reassembled in an abstracted form creating college-likeeffects. His creative styles go beyond realism and abstraction, Cubism, and Surrealism. Picassoonce said, “You expect me to tell you: What is

Impressionism is an art movement initiated in France (Paris) in 19th century. The name of this art movement was taken from a French artist’s name called Claude Monet, who painted his artwork (impression, sunrise). Impressionism art movement combined a group of prominent French artists, who their exhibitions became more important through 1870 – 1880s, despite the opposition from the classical art community in France. Claude Monet’s painting was provoked by the Critic Louis Leroy.

As Nazi’s army occupies cities and countries all over the Europe, Paris was inevitably erupted and ruined by the pervasion of Fascism. Many influential European avant-garde artists such as Duchamp and Matisse either immigrated or traveled to the United States of America in order to take a break from the European social disorders. Paris was no longer the symbol represents freedom and liberty, so the artists were actively seeking a new location to express their thoughts and to create contemporary artworks without any constraints. These artists and their works were officially exhibited in the Armory Show. The exhibition introduced American with Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, and Dadaism, which opens the possibilities of the American Modernity.

He often kept a black and white color scheme, to show how dry, harsh and depressing the time period was for most of the world. In one of his most famous and controversial paintings, “Nude Descending a Staircase,” Duchamp shows a woman in constant motion, assumed to be walking down stairs. The work itself makes it difficult to identify a human at all, and the “staircase” is also difficult to discern. This work was criticized for being “too futuristic,” but many argued that it was actually an accurate sign of the fast paced modern world; too many people were moving so fast, looking to the future, that their movements created a whirlwind effect and led to a frenzy of

Additionally, Picasso’s painting shows a connection between the figures in that they seem to have a focal point that they are facing, just like in Cézanne’s painting, where the figures supposedly are all involved in the activity. While Picasso applied color and lines to give shape to the figures as Cézanne did in his painting, the difference is that Picasso’s painting has the figures defined by sharp pointed edges unlike the curves in The Large Bathers. The other notable difference is that the sense of space exhibited in Cézanne’s painting is not seen Picasso’s, as the figures are crammed up in a limited

In this paper, I will discuss the form, content, and subject matter of three different paintings. Each of the paintings represents the following: representational painting, abstract painting, and a portrait. The paintings I have chosen are: Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks 1942, Wassily Kodinsky’s Colour Studies: Squares and Concentrentic Circles 1913, and Pablo Picasso’s Self-Portrait 1907.

Marcel Duchamp’s work “nude descending a staircase” was most likely scandalous because it wasn’t recognizable as anything real. When people saw this painting, it was the form of a women, in rough shapes, repeated over and over, overlapping. Although the painting claimed to be something sane, many described it as “an explosion in a shingles factory”. Because of it’s rough and confusing nature, many did not understand, and thus did not like, the painting. Another reason people didn’t like it was because of how the painting didn’t create movement normally. The movement it created was through repetition of overlapping shapes. Because of the chaos this caused, people hated it, calling it ‘repellant’.

Lets take a leap of time into the conteporary era; our era. spearheaded by Marcel Duchamp who decides to portray a nude lady walking down a staircase in form of abstract geometric forms which to be honest make the lady practically unrecognisable. It is also impossible to determine any sense of concrete time and space from the painting. Everyone who came across this enigmatic piece of cubist masterwork was shocked That however is besies the point.

In late 1915 Paris, Pablo Picasso painted “Harlequin.” The abstract painting is oil on canvas, is displayed in portrait view and measures 6’ ¼” by 3’ 5 3/8”. This was not the first time Picasso used the harlequin figure. During his “Rose Period” (early 1900’s) the harlequin figure was a top choice for Picasso. Picasso is known for his “Blue Period,” “Rose Period,” and his “Protocubism” he co-founded Cubism, invented the collage, and aided in the development of both Surrealism and Symbolism. Picasso truly abandoned the ideals of realistic painting and was drawn to the abstract. “Harlequin” is a synthetic cubist painting or a painting marked by the use of color, and decoration, while keeping flat shapes that was disjointed.

Sweeping, curved lines create a simple depiction of a figure in restful slumber. Standing in front of Pablo Picasso’s Woman With Yellow Hair, painted in 1931, my eyes gaze upon the surpenginous movement within the painting. I am able to observe his intimate portrait of Marie Therese Walter, Picasso’s seventeen-year-old muse. Picasso’s playful color pallet uses saturated hues in great contrast with blushing pink tones. This technique demonstrates her surreal, dreamy state.

Location- Generally, due to severity of totalitarian regimes of Europe, modernist artists were forced to flee Europe in order to continue their art. This meant a shift from the art capitol of

Le Modèle is one of the magnificent paintings of interiors Braque created during the late 1930s, which have since become widely renowned as the most complexly conceived and beautifully rendered compositions the artist had done since his cubist period a quarter century earlier. Just as Braque, together with his friend Picasso, were on the eve of the First World War mining the possibilities of high cubism in its newer synthetic phase, so he had again arrived at an especially productive juncture in his career, during which he was summing up and further enriching those characteristic qualities of the intervening years that had set apart his work from the more loudly insistent modernist brands of the day, as he sustained his uniquely quiet, contemplative

Impressionism as an historical art period is best described as a shift in thinking and focus. This paradigm shift, away from realism and toward individualism, began a centuries long transformation of self-expression in art as a whole. Impressionism is generally considered a French movement and is typically defined as spanning from approximately 1867 to 1886. Impressionism is best embodied by and was perhaps initiated by Claud Monet in such world-renowned works as Impressions: soleil levant which lent its name to the style and subsequently the art period as a whole.