Similarities Between Picasso And Velazquez And Picasso's Painting

Question 21 2 out of 2 points Why is Velzquez's Las Meninas (The Maids of considered Honor) such a complex painting? Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer:

Picasso painted for himself, as a release from the pressures of his society and as a way to express his thoughts and problems in tangible form. For this reason, the events happening around the time of any Picasso work must be understood before the true meaning of any resulting art can be understood.

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

Pablo Picasso’s way of drawing can be seen as very different and rather similar at the same time compared to Vincent Van Gogh’s method. Drawing allowed van Gogh to capture light and images more quickly than with painting and

Alvaro was the one that was quiet and would copy other people's paintings instead of making some kind of original and unique art. Cristobal was the troublemaker that would steal things from Mr.Velazquez and blame it on Juan. Mr.Velasquez knew that it was not Juan’s fault and he threatened to send cristobal away if he did it again. But, he did it again and Mr.Velasquez did not do anything because Cristobal was a good drawer and painter and was much better than Alvaro. There was a request by the King for Diego Velasquez to paint a portrait of him.

I say this because I said that Picasso’s had the woman making the girl big. In Velazquez’s the girl has the women also making her the center point. She couldn’t be though if the she didn’t have the women helping her and “making” her. I say this because she looks like she has a lot of things going on just sitting down and she couldn’t do everything by herself so to look good she needs the helpers or women. This is why I think that these two paintings look similar in this topic and also could look different.Contrasting:The second thing that I think is different about these two paintings is that the girl in Picasso’s painting is living in poverty and she looks pretty when she is cleaned up. In Velazquez’s the girl is living a lush life and has servants doing her work and she is just a young girl. The reason I say this is because since Velazquez was the king’s painter he only painted things that looked expensive for the king and his family to see. In Picasso’s case he was just a really good painter and he painted things that everybody who had practically nothing could

The palace official in the doorway is the actual vanishing point of Las Meninas, which creates a life-like feel to the painting. Velazquez blurs the line between art and reality by painting Las Meninas on a 10.5 by 9-foot canvas and creates a three-dimensional area that the viewer can “walk into” (Earle). The lines of the ceiling and corners meet at the open door where the palace official stands, exactly eye level to the spectator (Wicks). This vanishing point helps to establish this painting as a physical space, rather than a mere canvas.

There are very few things that appreciate with time. Many people love to bank on a rookie baseball player, in hopes his card will be worth thousands. Many invest in land, praying they hit a gold mine like land in Frisco or Prosper, Texas. One of these rare items is art. Art is a luxury, that many high income people love to invest in. Pablo Picasso’s art is some of the most if not the most prominent, pieces of artwork in the world. Picasso was a trendsetter of sorts, helping start many movements including introducing the idea of a collage in his later paintings. Picasso had a habit of drawing his lovers in his paintings. For some of his mistresses, he created lots of art with them as the main subjects of the paintings, as those were the stronger influences. Many of his paintings were centered around one of his mistresses, Marie-Therese Walter. Picasso met the 17-year-old Walter while he was married to his wife, Olga Khokhlova. Throughout their relationship, which spanned nine years, she was the centerpiece of his work. Depending on the depiction of the subject, Picasso showed his emotion toward Walter. The painting, ‘Seated Woman’ of Walter by Picasso portrays a unique style, a powerful use of colors, and a different view of Walter in comparison to paintings of his other mistresses.

I think that the "fitting together" of his painting and the design and composition does show a certain care for what is painted and portrays everyone as connected. The symmetry of the piece also, in my opinion, makes it that much more visually appealing. Everything appears balanced and harmonious. This painting, among many others Diego had created, was a part of the Social Realism movement in Mexico. The common artwork during this time was completed as murals depicting the hardships and plights of the laborers and common people of this time period.

The third of the paintings stemming from the Baroque period done by Velázquez is one of his many works for the court, setting the tone in the particular area, while not extending much further (49, Bazin). The court employing Velázquez was that of King Philip IV, with the focus of this painting being the king’s daughter. This particular piece has not only the artist himself depicted, the children of the court scattered about, but also a mirror in the back showing the King and Queen standing as the painter is depicted to be painting their portrait. Each point of attention draws way from the former, then pushing to the next in a cycle of focus. Once Velázquez started using almost strictly the style of portraits, he mastered the art using the available means to the fullest. The painting at hand in particular uses his mastery of portraiture to the fullest in varying who is being painted and their positions on the canvas (59-60, Bazin).

Pablo Picasso once stated, “Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotions.” This quote explains how Picasso’s work changed over the course of his life. Picasso had several art periods in which anyone is able to see the change of both colors and emotions in his works. For example, Picasso’s Blue period showed his melancholic emotions through blue tones, while during his Rose period he used brighter red and pink tones showing his more happy emotions. Pablo Picasso’s works expressed his emotions and depicted events throughout his life. Picasso’s artwork greatly influenced many people during his lifetime and he became even more influential and revered for his artwork after his death.

Harlie UnderhillDecember 4, 2017Spanish 1B - HudsonLas MeninasThe Las Meninas is a piece of artwork made by Diego Velázquez in 1656 in the Cuarta del Principe in Almcázar in Madrid. It is one of the most famous paintings in the Spanish history. Velazquez was trying to bring this painting closer to Spanish History. The artwork is a painting of the infanata and her attendants. She has two maids around her, and José Nieto in the doorway. Behind the infanata there is a canvas, on the canvas is a picture of Mari Bárbola and Nicolasito Pertusato. The infanatas parents, Philip IV and Mariana de Ulloa, reflections are in the mirror. The artist also includes himself in the painting, painting a huge canvas. When Velázquez was painting the portrait, he was trying to paint like the technique called Baroque. This technique is the style used to exaggerate motion in order to produce drama and tension in paintings, sculptures, literature, dance and music. He was trying to make a complex and credible composition that would convey a sense of life and reality. Velazquez limits between reality and painting.. The composition combines unity and variety. This painting has a specific location, and identified figures, and its a group portrait.

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.

Another interesting perspective captured in the painting is facial elevation and position. The meninas’ heads are at different elevations to that of Margarita. Their attention is towards Margarita yet their perspectives are different. María’s eye view is higher than Margarita’s eye view yet the painter makes it appear as if María’s eyes are looking up on Margarita. Moreover, Isabel’s elevation appears to pay homage to Margarita by her angle of inclination, eye direction and facial expression. .

The first painting was created by Jacques-Louis David while he was imprisoned in Luxembourg Palace for supporting Maximilien Robespierre around the time of the French Revolution. The painting is based around an incident that took place around the early history of Rome, and in the painting a group of women are shown trying to separate Sabine and roman soldiers. The other painting, “Massacre at Chios,” depicts the massacring of Greek civilians at the hands of ottoman troops during the Greek war of independence in 1822. The third painting, “Guernica,” represents the chaos that resulted from the bombing of a town in Spain that shares the same name as the painting, at the hands of German Luftwaffe forces. In this painting Picasso uses abstraction to depict the massacre and perhaps to leave the deeper meaning up for the viewer to figure out on their own. As for all three paintings, they are all based around the theme of innocent people getting caught between the conflicts of groups of people, and of course the disaster that resulted. Another thing that makes them similar is that the paintings were also influenced by a conflict that was occurring at the time of their creation such as the French revolution for J.L. David’s painting, the massacre that occurred at Chios during the Greek war for independence in 1822 for Delacroix’s painting, and the bombing of the town of Guernica by Nazi air forces for Picasso’s painting. The way in which they are all different is in what the paintings were inspired by and the style that was used to portray a message or reference something that the painter had in mind. In J.L. David’s painting it was his imprisonment during the French revolution and the French’s desire to restore ancient roman values into civilian life that inspired David to paint “The Intervention of the Sabine Women.” As for Delacroix, his painting is different because he