Case Study: Guernica By Picasso

During the Spanish Civil War, German tested their bombs for warfare on a town called Guernica. It was in the province of Biscay in Basque Country in Pablo Picasso’s home country. The oil work, Guernica, was Picasso’s reaction to how he felt about the bombing and shows dismemberment and pain. It is art about the tragedies of war, especially on civilians. This anti-war symbol helped bring the Spanish Civil War more attention. The lack of color seems to make the work more dramatic. According to Picasso the bull meant brutality and darkness while the horse the people of the town. This artwork should be classified as one of the most famous political protest

The element of art being most emphasized is color. There is a contrast in the artwork in the negative, The wall has cool and high key tones which contrast with the Egyptians and food that has warm and neutral colors. Although the artwork is not symmetrical, the light green color shown in the small details such as the carvings on the wall, necklaces, and food contribute a balance of colors within the artwork. In the artwork, there is a variation of curved lines and shapes that also bring the piece together. For examples, the lines are curvacious on the elbows, shoulders, and necklaces of the Egyptians and the objects around them. There are rhythm and pattern shown through the lines and shapes because most of the art piece has a bulbous form like the rounding of the shoulders or the circular shape of the heads. The art piece also seems to be scratchy because of the chips in the stone and the edges of the stone have faded limestone. The two men sitting and facing each other have a contrast of color to the rest of the art piece making them emerge into a more noticeable figure than the rest.

While both pieces of Art have men as their main focus the techniques used to bring the pieces to life are greatly different

was different from all other paintings I viewed in the museum. To me it was different

The first painting was of a women painting inside the painting, and it looked liked she was in Egypt, and in one hand the women was holding a compass and in the other was a paper with math on it. The second painting looked like a family traveling somewhere in the 17th century. Both of these paintings were representational art. And both of these artworks also tell a story in a unique way. And there also seems to be hidden messages scattered around these paintings but if you look closely they open a hole new meaning to the art. The second painting looked like it belonged to an artistic tradition due it being English. The first painting was called the Allegory of Geometry, and the artist who made this was Laurent de la Hyre. The second painting was called Landscape with Country Carts, and the artist who created this was Thomas Gainsborough. Thomas Gainsborough personality played a role in creating the art, he was a landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He also surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. After doing a visual analysis of the artwork I noticed that the Allegory of Geometry was more sharp than the Landscape with Country Carts, it had more detail in it. A formal analysis can be useful to tell an artist's use of aspects such as color, shape, line, mass, and

In this world there no two people who do something the exact same way. Poussin and Rubens are no exception. In fact their almost complete opposites there are several things that make them different. The first thing that makes the two paintings and artist differ is their believe of which part of the painting is the most important , while Rubens believes that the color is more important Poussin believes that the drawing is the more important part. The next subject that makes them different is their brush work while Rubens has Energetic brushwork Poussin has fluid and calm brushwork. The next difference is that while Rubens painting has a story and is about a myth Poussin painting is just a simple landscape painting with no story. The final difference I saw was that while Rubens painting was about a struggle

Picasso used several principle and element of art while painting “Guernica”. Some of the elements include value, line, shape, color and, space.

Various artists use different visual elements to bring out their paintings as an expression of an idea in the mind that connects with the viewer. The variation in the components might result in some differences between paintings expressing the same themes. Elements such as shape, color, and texture are important in the analysis of art. However, various artists use these differences to create a particular impression. The variations are responsible for the differences in the size of the artworks, the use of colors, and the graphic weight of the medium.

“Guernica” by Pablo Picasso was a black and white, mural oil painting created in June of 1937 on a 349 cm × 776 cm (137.4 in × 305.5 in) canvas. The piece represents the chaos that flooded the Spanish town of Guernica after a vicious bombing by the German and Italian forces during the Spanish Civil War. What followed was a senseless slaughter and bloodshed with the primary focus being the demoralization of the Basque people.

The painting I have chosen to write about is Puget Sound by Albert Bierstadt. His painting is representational because you can clearly see the details in the painting and you could imagine the painting would be of a real place. His work has been said to be more naturalistic rather than realistic since naturalism comes straight from the artists view and imagination. Bierstadt never actually visited this place. He painted from his own imagination from other places he has been and people he has seen. I think the added details in the ocean and embellishment of the clouds are what make the painting so strong and powerful.

The field of art history, like any discipline, is a wide and varied area of study. There are seemingly thousands of ways to interpret works of art and their places in history. Each has their own pros and cons and can greatly help to understand art and art-objects. In this semester’s Introduction to Art History course, we learned three different approaches art historians take when interpreting works of art: an object-oriented view, an artist-centered view, and an approach through medium. These approaches generally fall within one of two categories. The approaches through object and medium focus on readily apparent cues and symbols in the art object being studied. These approaches rely less on a study of history and more on visual evidence. The

The function and materiality of paint is emphasized when it can be identified on a painting. There are other differences between the painters portraits.

Abstract Expressionism was born in 1940’s New York when small group of loosely affiliated artists begin to create a body of work which varied in style, technique, and quality of expression. This stylistically diverse collection introduced radical new directions in art and completely shifted the art world’s focus. Although the works vary greatly, they do share several broad characteristics including the fact that they are based off non-representational forms, they emphasize spontaneous personal emotional expression, and they are all explorations into utilizing the physical characteristics of paint to evoke expressive qualities. Although female artists were among the group who pioneered the new artistic movement, they were left out of the narrative.

In many minds art is, art. However, when you take a deeper look you will notice even the slightest flick of the hand while holding a paintbrush can give a piece a totally different meaning. When comparing, and contrasting artists’ work it is very important that you are visually literate. In many cases art is not appropriately appreciated due to only seeing the surface, and in some cases ethnocentrism.

In his book Languages of Art, Nelson Goodman in his own words: “sought to establish a connection between his own interests in the arts with his own inquires into the theory of knowledge”. (cite). In doing so, he created a method that clarifies the symbol systems functioning within an artwork. Nelson Goodman took issue with the terminology associated with the pictorial arts such as denotation, resemblance, expression, and representation. Goodman believed that the precise definitions of these words were becoming muddled in discourse about the arts and as a result the public was starting to lose the essence of the terms themselves. He summarized these ideas with his emphatic declaration at the beginning of Languages of Art: “Representation is a matter of denotation while expression is somehow a matter of possession” (cite). From the beginning of his book he establishes the difference between these types of symbolism to emphasize the