Cubism In Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles DAvignon

The primary colour in this artwork is a deep and dark blue creating a sense of sadness, this was also known as the blue period Picasso went through. This artwork was oil painted on canvas; the size of this artwork was 101.1 x 73.3cm in size.

The guitar is the only part of the picture that isn’t some kind of grey or blue. The guitar is almost like a crutch to the man making it seem like it is the only thing holding him up. The painting stands out and captures the viewer even though its colors are dull. Picasso was the best at balancing the dark shades just enough so they didn’t run together. This painting is one of the most depressing paintings of all time. The walls are very dark and give a cold depressing feel. They seem like a jail cell holding the man captive. He cannot escape the dark colors that surround him just like he cannot escape the harsh world. The sky looks endless like there is no tomorrow coming. It also seems like there has never been a sun to warm the lands in this painting. Picasso mixed the colors

A large mural, Guernica is an example of Synthetic Cubism painted by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Created using the medium of oil paint on canvas with a narrow palette consisting of the neutral hues: white, grey and black; the formalist qualities of Guernica can have harrowing effects on the spectator, “But to see it in real life, in its full size, is an even stronger emotional experience. Some people have said they experienced an instant rush of many powerful, fearful emotions” (The Open University, 2016, Block 3, 2.2.2).

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.

Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is an 8ft x 7ft oil painting on canvas and is displayed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. First look, you see incomplete distorted figures of naked women. It looks almost as though its done in water colors. The women in the painting are actually prostitutes from a brothel in the red light district in Barcelona Spain; Picasso’s home town.

Perturbed times in life often were the influence for Picasso’s paintings. Colors and shades were used on the paintings created to reflect all of the troublesome times he went through and how much of an effect those

Guernica is monochromatic to make its imagery more powerful. Lack of color keeps the viewer focused on the subject matter at hand, as well as keeping the mural cold, which agrees with its general theme of injustice in war. Also, Picasso’s flat imagery does not distract the viewer from concentrating on imagery. The viewer is given no other choice than to concentrate on the subject matter of Guernica and ponder it’s meaning. The flat, grayscale images generalize the imagery and contribute to the general theme of unnecessary suffering and tragedy.

It took him over two months to finish it, and it was displayedin the Spanish Pavilion in 1937. Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it imposesupon individuals, mainly innocent civilians, animals and buildings by violence and chaos. It’sbelieved to have helped bring worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War. Some critics warnagainst trusting the political message in Guernica. Picasso said he painting exhibits brutality anddarkness. He also stated that the horse inthe painting represented the people ofGuernica. The painting was anindignation on what the war was doingto everyone. As the war went onPicasso’s paintings became more andextra sad and depressing. Death becamethe focus for many of his paintings. In the last years of his life, paintingbecame a fixation with Picasso, and he would date eachpicture with absolute precision, thus creating a vast amount of similar paintings. Picasso died atage 91 in April 1973, becoming one of the most famous and successful artist in history. Hiscareer spanned over a 78-year period, in which he created: 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints andGuernica, 1937 by Pablo

While Picasso’s Demoiselles is not a true Cubist work, it was nonetheless a major step towards Cubism. It features nude figures and background that are so distorted they seem to forgo any spatial depth. The softness of classical female bodies are restructured by Picasso into

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, and originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting of 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881–1973). The work portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Avinyó Street in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none are conventionally feminine. The women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. Two are shown with African mask-like faces and three more with faces in the Iberian style of Picasso's native Spain, giving them a savage aura. In this adaptation of Primitivism and abandonment of perspective in favor of a flat, two-dimensional

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

Here Colesscott has developed Picasso’s abstraction and ‘Africanism’ in line with European influences. Colescott has made this famous image his own, in terms of color and content, whilst still making his inspiration clear. Picasso’s borrowing of the original art piece allowed him to remodel the painting into one that contains a different interpretation of society, context, colors and formal expressions. Picasso saw the strength and valuable assets in the original painting and stole them into his own like an artist, making use of the best features and enhancing them through his own

This was his melancholic period. It is believed that this period begun as a result of a suicide committed by one of his close friends, although most of the paintings were of people he saw in the streets. This style consisted of dark colors such as dark blue tones, grey, and sorrowful tints. His works in this period will show how he is dealing with events in his life that aren’t so bright and welcoming. Eventually, in 1904, his palette lightened. This was the Rose Period. During these years, Picasso was happy in his relationship with Fernande Olivier whom he had met in 1904. Picasso's work regains its romantic character in a couple of paintings in warmer colors, many of them in the colors red and pink, hinting the “rose” period. His color palette will continue to change throughout his emotional ups and downs. Picasso had mainly 3 styles: Cubism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. His first style, cubism was developed by Pablo Picasso between 1907-1911.This classic phase has two stages. Analytic is when forms seem to be 'analyzed' and fragmented, while synthetic, in which materials such as newspaper and wood veneer are collaged to the surface of the canvas. The second

Picasso was infamous for cheating on his wife with hundreds of young women. This provoke Picasso to paint women in a very explicit and sexual ways. For instance, in Picasso painting “The Race” the women within the painting are shown in an erotic manner. The head are overly shrunken while other part such as the breast are very defined and clear. Another example is “Girl with Toy Boat”. In the picture, there are really no clear faces or subject. The only noticeable thing in the painting are the oversized breast and nipple on these figures. The painting is demonstrated in a way where the only thing Picasso wanted the viewers to focus on were private areas. Picasso didn’t represent his nude painting of women as art like the Greek did but instead as a reminder of his sexual encounters with them. Picasso viewed women as a sensation rather than subjects throughout his

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