Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Spain. In 1900, he moved to France, where he began his career as a painter. He was a painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Picasso is well known for his introduction and development of Cubism along with Georges Braque. He is also well known for his modern approach to painting. ("Pablo Picasso and His Paintings.") Picasso also invented the style of collage and contributed to the art movements of Symbolism and Surrealism. Picasso first emerged as a Symbolist, which can be seen in his Blue and Rose Periods. ("Pablo Picasso Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works.") From 1901-1904, Picasso was in his Blue Period. Picasso’s paintings were dark and dismal. Picasso used only a range of blue colors and sad subject matter.
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In his Cubism paintings, he played with multiple and conflicting perspectives all on the same plane. He broke down objects into facets and then reassembled them to create the object again, but in a new abstract way. Picasso said that, “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” This perfectly sums up his Cubist style, because he painted the objects as being viewed from all sides like how one would think about, not just from the front. ("Pablo Picasso Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works."). There were two types of Cubism that Picasso was involved with, Analytic and Synthetic. Picasso also introduced a new technique of collages, which can be seen in his painting, Man with a Hat and Violin. Pieces of newspaper cutouts were glued down to the canvas. In addition, the canvas itself was two pieces of paper stuck together. This style of Cubism became known as Synthetic. In his work, Still Life with a Bottle of Rum, Picasso used the Analytic style. It is highly abstract and difficult to find the actual bottle of rum. Everything is broken up and his use of shading is conflicting. Both of these techniques were controversial because they did not represent the object as it actually appeared. The scale of some of his paintings as well were risky ventures. In Les Demoiselles d’Avignon for instance, the women are as tall as or taller than the viewer is, which could be intimidating. Guernica, as well, was an …show more content…
He is known as the father of modern art. No artist before Picasso has had as much impact on the art world as he had. ("Pablo Picasso and His Paintings.") The Abstract Expressionist artist Willem de Kooning was very inspired by Pablo Picasso’s distorting and reassembling figures. Modern art in general owes a lot to Picasso and his groundbreaking ideas and techniques. “The Museum of Modern Art in New York has been called ‘the house that Pablo built,’ because it has so widely exhibited the artist 's work.” ("Pablo Picasso Biography, Art, and Analysis of
In his Cubism paintings, he played with multiple and conflicting perspectives all on the same plane. He broke down objects into facets and then reassembled them to create the object again, but in a new abstract way. Picasso said that, “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” This perfectly sums up his Cubist style, because he painted the objects as being viewed from all sides like how one would think about, not just from the front. ("Pablo Picasso Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works."). There were two types of Cubism that Picasso was involved with, Analytic and Synthetic. Picasso also introduced a new technique of collages, which can be seen in his painting, Man with a Hat and Violin. Pieces of newspaper cutouts were glued down to the canvas. In addition, the canvas itself was two pieces of paper stuck together. This style of Cubism became known as Synthetic. In his work, Still Life with a Bottle of Rum, Picasso used the Analytic style. It is highly abstract and difficult to find the actual bottle of rum. Everything is broken up and his use of shading is conflicting. Both of these techniques were controversial because they did not represent the object as it actually appeared. The scale of some of his paintings as well were risky ventures. In Les Demoiselles d’Avignon for instance, the women are as tall as or taller than the viewer is, which could be intimidating. Guernica, as well, was an …show more content…
He is known as the father of modern art. No artist before Picasso has had as much impact on the art world as he had. ("Pablo Picasso and His Paintings.") The Abstract Expressionist artist Willem de Kooning was very inspired by Pablo Picasso’s distorting and reassembling figures. Modern art in general owes a lot to Picasso and his groundbreaking ideas and techniques. “The Museum of Modern Art in New York has been called ‘the house that Pablo built,’ because it has so widely exhibited the artist 's work.” ("Pablo Picasso Biography, Art, and Analysis of