Pablo Picasso Dora Maar Essay

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

When I examine the iconic painting “Gold Marilyn Monroe”, I viewed dazzling art elements that consist of lines, shapes, texture, values, and color. Firstly, the lines within the painting posses thickly curved, curled, diagonal, and straight lines. The curled lines are prominent on the hair of Marilyn. Additionally, the thickly curved lines the bring out the facial features can be viewed on Marilyn’s hair, eyebrows, eyes, forehead, and lips. Moreover, the diagonal line can be seen on the sides of Marilyn’s jawline. Also, the straight lines are noticed on the left side of Marilyn’s neck, her lower chin and the framing that encapsulates Monroe’s face. Secondly, the shapes of the painting are organic because Marilyn’s face is natural and symmetrical

     In 1937, Pablo Picasso painted Guernica, oil on canvas. The Republican Spanish government commissioned the mural for the 1937 World Fair in Paris. Guernica is a large mural, twenty-six feet wide and eleven feet tall, and was placed at the entrance to Spain’s pavilion. Picasso did not do any work after receiving the commission until reading of the bombing of the Basque village of Guernica, in Spain. It was that attack, perpetrated by the German Luftwaffe, that inspired him. Guernica, however, is not a complete depiction of that event. In Guernica, Picasso masterfully conveys the suffering of the Basque people and the tragedy of war. He seeks not to report on every detail of the bombing, but only to

Pablo Picasso, although usually known as just Picasso. His full name though is actually: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. His signature is worth more than some of his paintings. In fact in some restaurants he just drew a quick face and then signed it (when he was famous). He was one of the most well known people in the 20th century. He was born in 25th of October 1881 in Malaga, Spain, and then died on the 8th of April 1973 Mougins, France. He was a: painter, drawing, sculpture, print making, and ceramics.

Encouraged by his father, Picasso showed his artistic ability from a young age, with his first words supposedly being ‘piz, piz’ in an attempt to say the Spanish word for ‘pencil’, ‘lápiz’. From there, his father taught him how to paint and draw until Picasso surpassed his father at the age of thirteen. Furthermore, Picasso went through many different periods in his art, such as his “Blue Period” from 1901 to 1904. During this time, Picasso was facing loneliness and depression when trying to deal with his close friend’s death. His paintings from this time were made with blues and greens, and depicted poverty, anguish, and isolation. After finally overcoming his grief, the “Blue Period” was replaced by the “Rose Period”, the sorrowful colors replaced by warmer colors like red, beige, and pink. During this time, he was in love with Fernande Olivier, a beautiful model. This period lasted from 1904 to1906. From his “Rose Period” Picasso went into Cubism, an artistic style created with another artist and friend, Georges Braque. Cubism is an abstract style that dismantles objects before piecing them back together to show off their geometric shapes; it gives the painting many points of view at once. This startling new style began in 1907 and lasted until at least 1918, when his Classical Period began. World War I drew Picasso to be solemn once more, coercing him to draw the reality around him, up to 1927.

Perhaps the most technically impressive aspect of the painting is its remarkable three-dimensionality. Rembrandt is well known for his strikingly accurate portrayal of human shape and form, and this painting lives up to such reputation. With the use of oil paint, he was able to carefully and selectively layer color to create an astonishing representation of the human figure. The most alluring aspect of the piece, in terms of modeling technique, is the face. It contains so much detail; it is hard to believe this painting was done by hand. From the light, wispy texture of the facial hair to the subtle wrinkles surrounding the eyes, attention to detail is what sets this portrait far above many others. Rembrandt’s playful chiaroscuro on the nose and right hand truly give the piece a sense of depth, and the painterly quality of the piece produces a soft and elegant look. Also present within the face is the famous Rembrandt triangle. The result of a specific lighting technique frequently used by Rembrandt, a small triangle is formed underneath the eyes. It is present under the left eye in Marten’s portrait, which gives his face a more natural look. Another technique that intensifies the three-dimensionality of the visible body parts is the use of

Now is the time in this period of changes and revolution to use a revolutionary manner of painting and not to paint like before. - Pablo Picasso, 1935. (Barnes)

Pablo Picasso was born in october 25th 1881 in Málaga,spain. Since he was a little boy growing up, he was able to draw and paint and he also showed a passion for it. And as he grew up, his family moved to A Coruña, where his father became a professor of fine art and picasso continued to pursue his interest in art, then in 1895 his sister,Lola, died leaving him with a traumatic experience to deal with, however despite this sad time, he continued to be an artist. His family then moved to Barcelona where his father became another professor of fine art and Picasso studied under him. He then moves to France as a young man where he would spent most of his life as a painter, sculptor, ceramist, etc. While in France he made a name for himself becoming one of the most influential artists in the 20th century, he is known for being a co founder of cubism, a style where

Pain can take up a person 's life, whether it be mental or physical. Each person is burdened with some sort of pain, some more than others. “Whereas one of the foremost repercussions of experiencing a traumatic event is a crisis of subjectivity, trauma can paradoxically also become the site on which identity is founded” (Wiel). One of the most influential female artists of the 20th Century was one who was burdened more than many others. Frida Kahlo was famous not only for her self portraits, but how she documented her trauma and pain through them.

Picasso uses texture and an array of complementary and analogous colors characterized by a range of hues, values, and light to create a dramatic difference between the two subjects. The dominant and repetitive colors in the painting are green, yellow, lavender, red, and blue. The use of color, especially when used with the different geometric shapes, creates both a range of values as well as contrasts to adjacent areas. The profile and frontal head have lighter values such as yellow and lavender, whereas the reflection, painted with a rough charcoal texture has a dominance of blue, especially around the face, reflecting darker values. The use of complementary colors such as red and green create a brighter canvas, while the use of analogous combinations such as green and yellow, and green and blue blend well together. Overall, the reds and greens are bright throughout, giving intensity to the painting while the use of soft blue in the reflection, is not as intense and warm. Picasso also uses complementary colors of red and green against lavender in the figure to make the figure prominent. In the reflection, analogous colors are used throughout, but predominately on the top with purple

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

Being my first time visiting an art gallery, my husband insisted on visiting the Art Institute of Chicago during our stay in the city. I must say it was a hidden gem in the city of Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago gives the public and tourists the opportunity to personally view artwork from across the world. It gave me the opportunity to visit a place that I’d never pictured myself spending my time at an art gallery, and this experience exposed me to incredible works of arts.

During the generation artist have always evolved and practiced the art of portraiture coming from different times in history and also interpreting their cultural experience into their art works, artist Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo both reconnoitering portraiture as a way of creating their type of art, Frida Kahlo was born in Magdalena Carmen on the 6th of July 1906 one of Mexico’s finest artist in her times, also suffering a serious injury from a bus accident in 1932 Frida Kahlo started to incorporate surrealism in her artwork having a deeply personally creation about her miscarriage, Pablo Picasso born in 1801 in Malaga, Spain, Pablo

From the time periods of late1904 to early 1906, Pablo Picasso, one of the most renowned oil painters in history, explored the theme of Saltimbanques upon his canvas medium during his famous Rose Period. Previously, Picasso suffered from depression, which resulted in the era known as the Blue Period, but in 1904, Picasso met Fernande Olivier, who some speculate was the transition from his Blue Period to Rose Period. During the Rose Period, Picasso’s used of warm color oil paints, primarily pink, highlighted the artistic style of Saltimbanques as he depicted circus performers, harlequins, and acrobats that he observed when living in France. For much of his artwork, “Picasso’s eye would also require the stimulus of a visual experience,” and for him, the idea of being visually stimulated by circuses, caught his attention. In order to gather inspiration, Picasso would frequently visit the Cirque Médrano in Montmartre so that both his mind and eyes could be visually stimulated. As his infatuation with Saltimbanques increased, he dedicated a series to them and in 1905, he created his most famous painting of the Rose Period “Family of Saltimbanques.” This painting, standing at 7x8 ft, was considered to be the biggest painting ever produced by Picasso. Using these influences, Picasso was able to create his most impressive works of the Rose Period, “Family of Saltimbanques.”

Pablo Picasso - His Life and His Art Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, painter, sculptor, and printmaker, was born in Malaga Spain on October 25, 1881 and died on April 8, 1973.Today he is considered to be one of the most influential and successful artists in history. Picasso contributed many things to 19th century and