Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: The Portrait’s effect on Cubism and Abstract Art
When someone sees a simple painting of vibrant triangles and simple shapes representing humans, the viewer will often wonder if the certain piece is painted by Pablo Picasso. What many do not realize is that Picasso did not just start off painting shapes and abstract-like sketches. He went through many phases of art including: his blue and rose period, realism, surrealism, and cubism. The creation of cubism is by far the most important contribution that Picasso has given to the art world. It did not start with vibrant colors and natural placement objects, but is started with dark colored abstract paintings like that of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. This painting was very …show more content…
He was born into a family in which his father was a painter. Picasso started his painting career early on in life. His first teacher was his father, until, at the age of eleven, Picasso started his formal art training (Pablo Picasso). He moved to Paris in 1901. Paris, at this time, was a place full of eccentric people and artists like Picasso (Pablo Picasso Biography). The time from 1901 to 1904 is the time in which Picasso’s blue period occured. Picasso’s blue period was a time where he used predominantly melancholy colors. Picasso was very keen on conveying sadness at this time. This period is most related to Picasso’s work of The Old Guitarist. This painting contained Picasso’s famous trademark of pointed lines, and of course, a color scale containing different shades of blue and grey. Picasso did begin to lighten up, however …show more content…
The goal of this art form was to go towards abstract art, but remain ‘in touch’ with the natural world. Picasso and Braque started creating three dimensional works of art with two dimensional, geometric shapes. Picasso no longer worried as much about the placement of objects in the natural world, but painted in a collage-like manner to insinuate the real world positions of the items (Pablo Picasso). Picasso and Braque both agreed that color was not relevant to this new form of art. Picasso transitioned back to grey and black colors because he believed that the highlight of the painting should be the shapes and not the colors. This can be seen in Picasso’s experimental painting of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (Pablo Picasso’s). This painting truly showed how abstract, important, and creative this new art form of cubism
When someone sees a simple painting of vibrant triangles and simple shapes representing humans, the viewer will often wonder if the certain piece is painted by Pablo Picasso. What many do not realize is that Picasso did not just start off painting shapes and abstract-like sketches. He went through many phases of art including: his blue and rose period, realism, surrealism, and cubism. The creation of cubism is by far the most important contribution that Picasso has given to the art world. It did not start with vibrant colors and natural placement objects, but is started with dark colored abstract paintings like that of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. This painting was very …show more content…
He was born into a family in which his father was a painter. Picasso started his painting career early on in life. His first teacher was his father, until, at the age of eleven, Picasso started his formal art training (Pablo Picasso). He moved to Paris in 1901. Paris, at this time, was a place full of eccentric people and artists like Picasso (Pablo Picasso Biography). The time from 1901 to 1904 is the time in which Picasso’s blue period occured. Picasso’s blue period was a time where he used predominantly melancholy colors. Picasso was very keen on conveying sadness at this time. This period is most related to Picasso’s work of The Old Guitarist. This painting contained Picasso’s famous trademark of pointed lines, and of course, a color scale containing different shades of blue and grey. Picasso did begin to lighten up, however …show more content…
The goal of this art form was to go towards abstract art, but remain ‘in touch’ with the natural world. Picasso and Braque started creating three dimensional works of art with two dimensional, geometric shapes. Picasso no longer worried as much about the placement of objects in the natural world, but painted in a collage-like manner to insinuate the real world positions of the items (Pablo Picasso). Picasso and Braque both agreed that color was not relevant to this new form of art. Picasso transitioned back to grey and black colors because he believed that the highlight of the painting should be the shapes and not the colors. This can be seen in Picasso’s experimental painting of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (Pablo Picasso’s). This painting truly showed how abstract, important, and creative this new art form of cubism