Essay about Analysis of Picasso's "Nude Combing Hair"

     Color values are strong in this painting. It goes back to what I said about color, but I believe the soft hue of the blue walls against the strong hue of the bed frame and floor provides enough contrast to pull you into the painting. I also like the strong hue of the table. It connects the visual of looking at the chairs and the bed. When you look at the table, your eye cannot help but look at the other furniture.

To begin with the analysis, we must look at the general shape of this piece of art is very 2D meaning its flat and it has some well-defined lines. As you look at it you can see that it is not balanced and not proportionate. The subjects are identifiable. There are three people in this piece of work along with a dog. As you look at it you can see a mother and her two children and their family dog. One child is sitting on the dog and the other girl is looking ar her sister while the mother watches them closely. You can clearly see a narrative being portrayed on the canvas because the two girls are looking at one another. The style is realism because their features are not over drawn to exaggerate a body part. The title relates to the piece of art because it’s a picture of a woman and her children. The message is conveyed very clearly and the style is very realistic looking.

In this artwork the background has a very distinct colors that correspond to looking like the rainbow. This rainbow background draws your eyes to behind the girl and focuses in on the different elements of the rainbow clippings. The texture of the entire work is rough and looks choppy or almost flaky. The hair texture looks silky and soft to one’s touch. The value with this artwork is mostly within the subject. The different tones of her skin make her look more realistic and lifelike. The subject is also emphasized because she is the only aspect of the artwork that is used with neutral colors, so she stands out against the colorful background. The subject is also proportional to the background showing that the girl

Claude Monet’s use of the illusionary space in this image is actually quite amazing. At first glance, your eye is drawn towards the left side of the painting, due to the amount of large and bulky objects in the foreground. Suddenly though your eyes turn to Camille; the woman gazing into the distance. As she stares off into the distance she acts a point to redirect the focus of the piece past the water and into the village across the river. This painting has a surprising power in that it is ability to fully mesmerize and captivate the viewer in a way few pieces of art can.

Pablo Picasso, although usually known as just Picasso. His full name though is actually: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. His signature is worth more than some of his paintings. In fact in some restaurants he just drew a quick face and then signed it (when he was famous). He was one of the most well known people in the 20th century. He was born in 25th of October 1881 in Malaga, Spain, and then died on the 8th of April 1973 Mougins, France. He was a: painter, drawing, sculpture, print making, and ceramics.

     At the extreme right of Picasso’s mural, a woman is falling from a burning building. Flames appear to be spewing from the top of that building. The flames consist triangles with different values of gray. The same light triangles are coming from the woman’s dress. Her arms flail upwards as she falls, and it is her fall that draws the eye downward and moves the viewer through the work. Below lies the woman picking herself up off the

In Le Dejeuner sur I’herbe the view of a women’s body was for the men’s please so the women were unclothed while they sat in a wooded area together the men still clothed. The way a women’s body is expressed in art can set standards to others and affect the way we view

I began to then see things in the background and notice the color palette of the painting that can be intentional to bring some sort of meaning to the overall painting. Vermeer has created a painting that is in many ways pleasurable to look at. The color palette of this painting fascinated me greatly. Vermeer set a very calm and cool scene using blues, grey, and yellow.

Some people think her work is non-emotional and chilly. They are all about the Pop culture itself, and the vanity, fantasy of the modern products and commodities. However, in her paintings, it indeed has her critical position and attitude of the social issues. The rigid faceless, even headless people, they are artfully showing the de-individualize in the overwhelming consumer culture,

The shapes and forms are unnatural and the whole painting is filled with disturbing images of deformed women. Moreover, the uncomfortable feeling the painting makes you feel as the three images in the center stares directly back at you. His use of that psychic line is uncanny and very disturbing and I can’t help but to feel I hate this painting. Picasso uses sharp angular shapes and forms with the neutral color black as it appears he painted the head of the woman’s image located on the top right hand corner of the canvas where it seems he blotted and smeared paint on the canvas to represent his meaning of deformity. Every other image is defined with geometric shape and this effect in my view causes the painting to be unbalanced. His use of the elements and principles were ignored or not present, he used shading that was irregular on his forms which caused the effect of confusion on where the direction of light was coming from. Patrick Frank writes, in Artforms, “Although some art historians decry this work’s negative depiction of women, viewers are challenged by the paintings hacked-out shapes and overall intensity” (401). This makes my point of if a painting has no meaning or a painting without a clear meaning to it will mostly lead to confusion and more time than not it will lead the viewer to a feeling of

In this piece, the attention is not brought to the virgin and the child because of contrast but because of the subject matter. The people in the piece are all directing their attention to the center where the virgin and the child are. The attention is also brought to them because of their size, they are the largest people in comparison to the others surrounding them, the child is just as big or bigger than the other people. Also, the virgin and the child have very detailed and intricate faces, whereas the other’s do not have such detail because we see a profile of them as they look up to the virgin and the child. Another thing I noticed that may emphasize them is that the people around them are all holding their hands out to them in a way that almost says, “look at this” because of the lines being drawn by their hands and

The print is presented with antique brass, pastel brown, pale gold, wheat, and pale chestnut. These undertones of colors that are softened or moderated create a feeling of gloom and calm at the same time. In addition, Klee used the technique of color blocking by overlapping squares. There is no particular color that dominates the entire image or completely catches a viewer’s attention. However, Klee emphasized on harmonization of colors by considering not only the combination of the colors but also the composition and the scale of the blocks. Each block blends harmoniously into one another so that it creates a sense of rhythmical or rhythmic changes, even though those colors used are analogous. Therefore, the print reminds me of lyrical melody, especially moody and gentle jazz music. While the background of the print presents a sense of color, the artist detached color from physical description and the objects are drawn childlike. Thus, the print looks like an illustrated page of a child’s diary that depicts an image of his or her

Picasso’s 1917 compared to his 1908 painting differ because he moved from cubism, to a more realistic painting way. While using geometrical shapes in one; he used more realistic while painting the features of the woman in the other. His 1917 painting is categorized as representational art. Representational art is “descriptive of a work of art that depicts forms in the natural world.” (Art and

The Artistic Influence of Pablo Picasso The Houston Museum of Fine Arts carries this eye catching painting constructed by the late Pablo Picasso. This particular abstract painting of Picasso looks as if a man is sitting at a piano. Upon further observation of the painting I came to realize that the artwork was distinctively named Le Rameur , which means “The Rower” in French. The Rower can be placed in the art movement known as Analytic Cubism.

In Douglas Crimp’s article the Photographic Activity of Postmodernism there are several terms that have been brought up over and over again. Presence is one of them, “presence that is only through the absence that we know to be the condition of representation.” It reminds me of one of my favorite photographers --- Francesca Woodman. She once said that “I allow you to see what you couldn’t see --- the inner force of one’s body.” She recreates a space that is simulating the relationship between the infant (the subject) and the mother’s body. The child was safe and content before the alienation, but a sense of lost and insecurity occurs after leaving the mother’s inner.