Comparing Diego Velázquez's And Pablo Picasso

The dark blue left eye and light blue right tells me that Pablo Picasso may have used her actual eye color. Her body is almost as if she had her back to Picasso and turning her torso toward him; such as in most contrapposto art. In the original sketch you can clearly see her arms and the detail of her body. She is not looking back at Picasso, but instead looking toward the opening curtain. The hair of the young lady is also more visible as it drapes down her back. By repositioning her arm and adding the mask he completely changed her appearance, not only in her face but her body as well. Picasso gave her a double point of view, as you look at her nose and the angles it provides. The hand under the chin gives it an almost claw like feature, with what seems to be her fingers going to her eye to her the opposite side of the chin. With the sharp angles and mask and all the distortion it would be difficult to truly see just the young lady. It is almost as if she is shards of glass pieced together to make a

The painting shows five women naked with flat figures, disintegrated planes and faces, inspired by African masks. The compacted space the figures occupy appears to project forward in jagged shards; a fiercely pointed slice of melon in the still life of fruit at the bottom of the composition teeters on an impossibly upturned table top. In this painting, Picasso makes a radical departure from traditional European painting by adaptation of Primitivism and abandonment of perspective in goodwill of a level two-dimensional picture of a plane.

Consequently to Velázquez being hired as a court painter by King Philip IV to paint different portraits and pictures for his household, “Las Meninas” became one of his most celebrated paintings. The focal point of this picture is King Philip IV daughter Princess Margarita. In this painting, Margarita is being

the picture some of them are interacting and talking. Others are staring at the viewer. I think that he created this to show how much people were focused on the princess and not the attendants. It was created to show how the attendants may have felt like an outsider. It shows us how us to may get caught up in the newest trend or famous person we forget about the people who help them or the ones that got them where they are. Those people don’t usually get recognized. I think that Picasso created such a work to better understand Velazquez and get his own interpretation on the

Harlie UnderhillDecember 4, 2017Spanish 1B - HudsonLas MeninasThe Las Meninas is a piece of artwork made by Diego Velázquez in 1656 in the Cuarta del Principe in Almcázar in Madrid. It is one of the most famous paintings in the Spanish history. Velazquez was trying to bring this painting closer to Spanish History. The artwork is a painting of the infanata and her attendants. She has two maids around her, and José Nieto in the doorway. Behind the infanata there is a canvas, on the canvas is a picture of Mari Bárbola and Nicolasito Pertusato. The infanatas parents, Philip IV and Mariana de Ulloa, reflections are in the mirror. The artist also includes himself in the painting, painting a huge canvas. When Velázquez was painting the portrait, he was trying to paint like the technique called Baroque. This technique is the style used to exaggerate motion in order to produce drama and tension in paintings, sculptures, literature, dance and music. He was trying to make a complex and credible composition that would convey a sense of life and reality. Velazquez limits between reality and painting.. The composition combines unity and variety. This painting has a specific location, and identified figures, and its a group portrait.

Though “Our Lady of Guadalupe” style is softer and more delicate than any other paintings. They create energetic subjects and has a vertical emphasis. The viewer clearly sees a landscape and a tumultuous battle in the sky that curves around the central figure of the Virgin

Both artists used oil on canvas and clearly depict their artwork with a use of detailed lines to grasp the viewers’ attention. The audience can easily notice the focal point in each artwork. In El Sol Asombra the house is painted bigger than everything else and the bright yellow grasps the spectator’s attention. Picasso used the same skill by making the male and female the center of attention. Picasso’s social angle lies in in the theme of gender and sexuality. The Kiss reveals a strong sexual tension between an elderly man and a younger woman. “This late painting… is an animal kiss, where sex and death are inexorably entwined through fear and hunger. These kisses, and the use of tongues, are unique in the history of representation.” (miamirali.org) Picasso painting a fierce moment shared between two people illustrates a sexual drive humans

She is standing and holding the baby. She looks off to the left beyond the picture plane. With a smile on its face, the baby stares out straight at the viewer with arms extended to its sides. “Light filters down from the upper right hand side of the painting from what can be assumed to be the implied streetlight from which the painting gets its name” (Manley). This vivid lighting technique focuses on the two people while also shedding light on the graffiti covered

In Picasso’s piece there are many curved lines, which seem to suggest a sense of comfort and ease, while the horizontal lines in the piece suggest a distance and calm. All of these feeling would appeal to the people who had witnessed the devastations of the war only several years before the painting was made. The long continuous lines guides the viewer’s eye in certain directions, and keeps the viewer interested. The shapes in Woman in the Blue Veil mostly consist of  round shapes like ovals, which represent a kind of continuous movement.

The subject matter of the painting focuses on two people a man and woman that are nicely dressed up and looks like both man and woman are a public outing. The title of the painting Sebastian Juner Vidal associates with the man in the portrait because the man is Sebastian; the fellow man in the painting. In the painting the man’s hand seems to be on the woman’s lap, which shows to be underneath the round table, the painting could suggest that Sebastian Juner Vidal and the lady are a couple. Pablo Picasso’s subject matter mainly focuses on prostitutes and poor people, the lady in the painting reveals her low cut dress showing the lady’s cleavage possibly means that she could be a

Going back the famous The Weeping Woman is a 59cm by 48 cm oil in canvas painting where Picasso used his artistic talent to express his political opinion; also the painting is “one of almost 60 on this theme.” According to Hubbard, Picasso use a range of bright colors to make the viewer think that the women in the painting was happy and confident until the instant some tragic news was delivered to her, and that was the moment Picasso captured the painting.3 These technique has given me the perception that life can bring tragic moments at some certain times; moreover the use of dimmed light on the center of the panting gives the impression of sorrow and pain.

Las Meninas - Valázquez and Picasso “Las Meninas” is a famous painting created by Diego Valázquez in 1656 (left). Diego Valázquez’s “Las Meninas” has inspired artists to make several renditions, admiring it. Pablo Picasso, in particular, has made over 50 renditions of “Las Meninas”. Pablo Picasso’s rendition shown at the top of the page (right) is only one of his recreations of “Las Meninas”, made in 1957 . There are many similarities and differences between both the original and Pablo Picasso’s rendition of “Las Meninas”, as well as several reasons why they made the paintings and what the artists were trying to portray.Diego Valázquez’s “Las Meninas” and Pablo Picasso’s rendition of it are similar in several ways. First, both paintings share some of the same objects. The princess, infantana margarita, is in the center of both paintings. Secondly, there is a maid of honor (a royal servant) kneeling to the left side of the princess in both paintings. Thirdly, both of the paintings also have the same focus. The focus of the paintings is the princess and her maids of honor. In Diego Valázquez’s painting, the princess and her maids of honor are towards the front and in the center, and the same is made apparent in Pablo Picasso’s rendition. Finally, you can see the building in which the paintings are taken place in both of them. It is very obvious in Diego Valázquez’s painting, put a little less so in Pablo Picasso’s painting. There is a difference in color from brown to black towards the bottom of Pablo Picasso’s painting. Since the floor in Diego Valázquez’s painting is clearly and brightly shown as brown but the walls are darker, the same is shown in Pablo Picasso’s rendition.Diego Valázquez’s “Las Meninas” and Pablo Picasso’s rendition of it are also different in several ways. Firstly, Valázquez is not shown in both paintings. In Diego

Another interesting perspective captured in the painting is facial elevation and position. The meninas’ heads are at different elevations to that of Margarita. Their attention is towards Margarita yet their perspectives are different. María’s eye view is higher than Margarita’s eye view yet the painter makes it appear as if María’s eyes are looking up on Margarita. Moreover, Isabel’s elevation appears to pay homage to Margarita by her angle of inclination, eye direction and facial expression. .

The word art is an encompassing one, vastly interpreted and with multiple definitions. In the case of Picasso's painting Guernica, art informs, educates and expresses. Its power lies in its ability to capture and compel an audience nearly six decades after the modern world's "other" day of infamy. To understand fully the painting that evolved out of the Spanish painter's outrage, one must know its context. "Why do you think I date everything I do? Because it is not sufficient to know an artist's works--it is also necessary to know when he did them, why, under what circumstances" (Picasso). An appreciator who knows the saga of Spain's historical fishing village is given a depth of experience that only a genius like

Girl before a Mirror, an oil on canvas painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, shows two sides of a girl; one which is illustrated with a dark tone and one with a vibrant colorful tone. This painting is bright; colors are at full intensity and are arranged next to their complements, producing a visual relationship between shape and form. Forms are used to draw the viewer’s eye across the canvas where circular shapes, repeating throughout the work, are compensated by the pattern of diagonal lines of the background. The viewer observes the girl’s profile and full frontal image, looking into a mirror and noticing a different image of herself. In order to achieve this effect, Picasso uses a range of formal elements that highlight the