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Pablo Picasso.
As Pablo Picasso once said, “Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.” Picasso’s passion for art started at a young age, getting his passion for art from his father. Pablo Picasso is known for the innovative techniques he introduced to the art world. Each being influenced from his life around him, to modifications in the colors he utilized, or transitioning to an unorthodox style of painting, and even practicing printmaking.
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 …show more content…

“In Cubism paintings, objects are broken apart and reassembled in an abstracted form, highlighting their composite geometric shapes and depicting them from multiple, simultaneous viewpoints in order to create physics defying, collage- like effects” (Biography.com Editors). This innovative art form was very diverse from any other and he was able to create an unseen theme resulting in the new style, Cubism. As said in this article, “Pablo Picasso is most known for instruction of cubism, and modern approach to painting. Which set forth the movements to follow in the twentieth century” (Pablo Picasso and His Paintings). They were two different forms of cubism that were created, analytical and collage, by Picasso and Baroque. Each type focused on the composition of different ideas combined into one piece of artwork. Analytical, the first form of cubism, was the breaking down but put together form of Pablo’s new art style (Pablo Picasso). An example of this division of art would be “Break and Fruit Dish on a Table”, which shows the new perspective being shown with the fruit dish. The simplicity of the geometrical shapes coming together to form a complex image was repeatedly the case for analytical …show more content…

One way of printmaking is lithograph, the concept being “Are made by creating a drawing on a flat prepared surface, usually a large and heavy slab of thick Bavarian limestone… printing a reverse image of what was drawn. The dates in reverse in so many of Picasso's prints is due to this fact” (Saper). An example of this method is “Figure au corsage rayé" made in 1949. Another very famous method used by Picasso himself was linocuts. The ways of creating this was by gouging out a sheet of linoleum which was previously flushed onto a harder block of wood, after applying pressure the inked image is applied to the paper (Saper). Later upgrading to more forms of techniques to produce this single color block to repeating the process but only using a different shade of color every time he made the block again. He created “Bacchanal with Goat” using this very

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