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Rhetorical Analysis Woman

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In his artwork Woman in the Blue Veil (La femme au voile bleu), Pablo Picasso appropriated different aspects of classical Greek art and borrowed various elements from Greco-roman pieces like Grave Naiskos of a Seated Woman with Two Standing Women. Woman in the Blue Veil was most likely inspired by Greco-roman artifacts like Grave Naiskos of a Seated Woman with Two Standing Women. According to the didactic panel of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in the Picasso and Rivera exhibit “Woman in the Blue Veil was painted near the end of Picasso’s neo-classical period (1921-23) and borrows compositional elements from ancient Greek funerary art.” The panel goes on to describe how the figure in the painting recalls the mournful women in the statue …show more content…

This fascination can be seen the sculptural quality of his painting, which can be compared to a style similar to Greek funerary art. The figure in the painting is wearing traditional ancient Greek tunic, and the head covering that the woman wears is similar to those worn as an ancient Roman custom. Like traditional Greco-roman art, Picasso focuses a lot of attention on the face of the figure, while still giving a lot of detail to the clothing. In Picasso’s piece there are many curved lines, which seem to suggest a sense of comfort and ease, while the horizontal lines in the piece suggest a distance and calm. All of these feeling would appeal to the people who had witnessed the devastations of the war only several years before the painting was made. The long continuous lines guides the viewer’s eye in certain directions, and keeps the viewer interested. The shapes in Woman in the Blue Veil mostly consist of round shapes like ovals, which represent a kind of continuous movement. The triangles created by the woman’s clothing and her nose leads the eye in an upward movement, and created

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