Comparison Between Eugene Delacroix And Pablo Picasso 's Paintings

A piece of art is not limited to a painting that captures a representation of imagery. Art is anything that stirs emotions in a person or makes them think, just like Marcel Duchamp accomplished in 1917 with one of his most famous pieces Fountain. Art can be anything that captures and represents the artists emotions, mental state, and personality with every brushstroke, and the usage of colors while also reflecting the mentality, thoughts, and major events that occur in a certain period, such as Picasso’s Guernica. To understand the message that the artist is trying to convey, one must look deeper than what is on the surface of the artwork, which is what I will do with this piece of art, scrutinizing its mysteries as well as its motives.

Many attribute the evolution of the French revolution as the catalyst for redirection of the style of artwork from Baroque and Rococo to Neoclassical and Romanticism. Two leading masterpieces that support this aspect are respectively: Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, (c. 1784) and Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, (c. 1830). As commented in Essential Humanities (2016), the French revolution “in all its heroic glory and grisly destruction” (par. 10) is masterfully portrayed in Delacroix 's personification of liberty. In addition, the summons for commitment to the cause of freedom is classically rendered in David 's vow of victory or death. Within this essay both of these paintings are examined in regards to their connection to the French revolution.

Through the years art has been regarded as a form of communication, emotion, a feeling or expression of ideas, by which we mean a person or convey something. This idea can be captured in a painting, sculpture or even through writing, which through their expressions disclose the most characteristic form of a culture. By century to century there has been many creative persons like writer, artist, composer who contributed to development in the all creative fields. We also had so many great visual artists who create greatest arts, music and books. Pablo Picasso is one of them, who took modern art at new level. He was one of well-known artist in history .In fact, his vision and distinct creative style, some of the most innovative pieces he introduced to the art world.

In this essay, I will be discussing how two famous artists from different times and cultures have created aesthetic qualities in artworks, communicated ideas and developed styles. Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso have been chosen to express two very different art styles and how both artists use elements and principles to create a distinct quality artwork. Although Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso come from different parts of the world and have different cultural backgrounds, both artists have practiced and explored portraiture as a way of making art.

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.

Picasso was born on October 25 1881, Nationality: Spanish and the movement of his artwork were Cubism, and Surrealism. Art is an artist’s individual interpretation of the subject. Female nude is a piece of art which makes the viewer think what is the artist trying to express by his painting. I was really confused at first when I looked at the art work and it took me a while to figure out what the art really means to its viewer. In general, the visual elements present in the art work like color, shape, lines, curves, and the subject itself are most remarkable visual features. While viewing this piece of art one thing you will notice is the color shade and the sharpen lines of the artwork attracts the viewers and hold you up for a while. Deep color combination of the background and the bright color frame work makes the piece look more vivid and attractive. I am still not quite sure about what is the artist trying to express from this painting but all in all I really liked this piece of

Picassos superb masterpiece, celebrated the feminine form. His representation of this robust feminine figure poised in the most provocative manner. The reclining nude figure seemingly leaps forward ahead of the deep red, blue, and green background. Her curvaceous form exaggerated with each stroke, highlighted with strong black outlines. Femme Couchée defined above all by the drawn line, the curvilinear contours that rivet our attention. His is best known for his colorful palette and serene imagery to represent the vibrate personalities and captured the zealots zest for life of his muses

This painting give us a clue that he was beginning to fall in a state of depression. The very obscure colors combined with glimpses of light are very common of his style during the early phase of his depressive moments. On the right corner of this painting we find a man and a woman many understand this as his conflicting relationship with his brother and sister in law.

She has been through a number of abortions, miscarriages and surgeries (Herrera and Kettenmann). Furthermore, her husband was not loyal to her and betrayed her that affected her in a huge way. Her paintings seem to be extreme. This painting shows some very deep emotions hidden inside it. There a couple of modes of analysis that will be discussed about this painting; formal analysis, biographical analysis and

Velazquez and Picasso made two similar painting’s, both named las meninas. Both of the painting’s represent a princess being helped by her maids or helpers. While Picasso’s was very abstract, Velazquez's was very realistic. While Picasso’s painting focused more on the princess, Velazquez’s painting focused more on the maids/helpers.

Picasso is more spontaneous application of color, there is less uniformity. In Matisse there are more color schemes, the composition is more rigid, even if it's not more descriptive; it is a still life more organized, with more degree of stability. Unlike nudes of Picasso, the nudes of Matisse with safety on the line and in the tone, makes to describe him as a flat painter. Matisse made a complex image, winning the back of the woman through the looking glass with a few simple strokes, spontaneous, but courteous Matisse achieved the creation of a space, bed, and room which is no longer description to be magic and especially calligraphic rhythm. If Picasso paraphrased other artists, Matisse makes metaphor from other poems, as the mirror

In this oil painting, you can see that use of brush stroke is very different then neoclassical art, it has softer strokes that blend well together, shading and dark colors add more the depth to the meaning Delecroix is trying to push through. This painting came to light when the people fighting the war needed it the most; it gives strength to all that see this painting, the message is no matter how hard things may seem, we have to fight for our rights, this includes all men, women, and children. (Zygmont, 2017)

There are also, however, important references of an art-historical nature that is expressed through the presence of the painter himself and the paintings hanging on the rear wall, while the inclusion of the mirror makes this work a reflexion of the act of seeing and ensures that the viewer reflects on the laws of representation, the limits between painting and reality, and his or her own role within the painting. This richness and variety of the content, combined with the complexity of the painting`s composition and the variety of actions represented, make Las Meninas a portrait in which the artist displays representational strategies and pursues aims that go beyond the habitual ones in this genre, bringing it closer to history painting.

Delacroix painted “Women of Algiers” in 1834, two years after the French colonization of Algeria. Most people view his painting as accurate because he visited Algeria just two years previous (Ma). Delacroix went to Algeria in 1832 as part of a diplomatic mission for France. Because of this, some people believe that “Women of Algiers” was “propaganda for France’s imperialist ambition (Ma 9).” The painting was meant to show the women as oppressed and under control, the same thing that imperialistic France hoped to accomplish with the country they desired (Khannous). The painting itself was very much influenced by the oriental culture of North Africa, but was also warped by the European fantasy of North Africa. Oriental objects and color schemes can be seen throughout the painting; however, the painting’s presentation of its subjects are a product of European influence. The painting is supposed to depict a Harem, which to Europeans was viewed as a place where men kept their multiple concubines and wives; however, the European view of a Harem is very over-dramatic, and actually

Art before the 20th century consisted of new styles and three-dimensional spectrums to create the most realistic painting possible. Portraits and landscapes were presented as sort of photographs with a paint brush. Everything required specific fundamentals and anything different would be rejected and labeled degenerate. During this time, foundations were put to the test and it was completely disordered by revolutionary ideas and styles. This art influenced a vast majority of modern day art. Pablo Picasso’s cubism and Henri Matisse fauvism helped shape this era not only in style of painting, but a revolution against conformity of a social artistic structure.