According to Pablo Picasso’s “Art is a lie” artists reveal truth through lies in their artworks. I plan to prove that his assertion is correct by using the oil painting “The Broken Column”, a Mexican artwork created by artist Frida Kahlo, in 1944. It’s a modernism style painting, a style that developed around the twentieth century.
Pablo Picasso’s view of art is a creative way to define how an artist reveals the truth of his/her paintings through lies . He also states that “Through art, we express our conception of what nature is not.” Which is true, I agree that art is used by men and women to convey expression, draw attention to the injustices of the world and can be used to immortalize historical events around the world. Whereas nature …show more content…
In Kahlo’s “The Broken Column” we notice that the column inside of the woman is damaged. The repeated use of line also determines how the column appears to be damaged and how each crack leads to another. The line also applies to the split skin along the sides of the column where it appears as if she has been cut open to reveal what's inside. Kahlo’s use of rhythm in this painting also helps prove that art is a lie, the woman in the painting has nails embedded in every part of her skin, including her neck, a person wouldn’t be able to live with nails lodged in their skin like this and couldn’t live long with their chest torn open unless they were having some type of surgery where they would be under amnesia and close supervision.
“The Broken Column” shows how any woman, beautiful or not, deals with pain. The nails lodged into the woman's skin depicts how any person could be experiencing pain within but allow themselves to be vulnerable and let others know of that pain. The thick, white straps symbolizes confinement and how the woman feels trapped by her life and her sufferings. The broken column symbolizes how her spirits are broken and how she’s barely holding on.
Based on my analysis of Frida Kahlo’s oil painting, “The Broken Column” in which she uses form, line, and atmospheric perspective. I believe that Picasso’s assertion that “art is a lie” is correct because the woman in her painting has unrealistic features by the way she’s depicted as a living
Pablo Picasso’s view of art is a creative way to define how an artist reveals the truth of his/her paintings through lies . He also states that “Through art, we express our conception of what nature is not.” Which is true, I agree that art is used by men and women to convey expression, draw attention to the injustices of the world and can be used to immortalize historical events around the world. Whereas nature …show more content…
In Kahlo’s “The Broken Column” we notice that the column inside of the woman is damaged. The repeated use of line also determines how the column appears to be damaged and how each crack leads to another. The line also applies to the split skin along the sides of the column where it appears as if she has been cut open to reveal what's inside. Kahlo’s use of rhythm in this painting also helps prove that art is a lie, the woman in the painting has nails embedded in every part of her skin, including her neck, a person wouldn’t be able to live with nails lodged in their skin like this and couldn’t live long with their chest torn open unless they were having some type of surgery where they would be under amnesia and close supervision.
“The Broken Column” shows how any woman, beautiful or not, deals with pain. The nails lodged into the woman's skin depicts how any person could be experiencing pain within but allow themselves to be vulnerable and let others know of that pain. The thick, white straps symbolizes confinement and how the woman feels trapped by her life and her sufferings. The broken column symbolizes how her spirits are broken and how she’s barely holding on.
Based on my analysis of Frida Kahlo’s oil painting, “The Broken Column” in which she uses form, line, and atmospheric perspective. I believe that Picasso’s assertion that “art is a lie” is correct because the woman in her painting has unrealistic features by the way she’s depicted as a living