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Comparing Girl With A Mandolin By Pablo Picasso And Georges Braque

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By comparing Girl with a Mandolin (1910) (Figure 1) by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-963)’s Man with a Guitar (1912) (Figure 2), this paper will demonstrate that both artists used the same subject matter (analytical cubist) and employed a similarly repetitive process they convey two different ideas; no means totally devoid of realism in Picasso and comforting exploration in Braque.
Girl with a Mandolin, this work depicts a naked girl holds a mandolin, and her head turns to the left and presents the right side of face to the viewer, but the rest of her body is directly facing the viewer. She looks down at the front of the mandolin and seems to be playing. Pablo Picasso uses different shapes and colors such as squares, cubes,

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