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Wassily Kandinsky was one of many influential artists during the Expressionist Movement. This movement lasted 20 years, from 1905 to 1925. This time period holds few historical significances, which influenced expressionism very much so. The end of World War I left Europe in ruins. Many people fluttered to America to escape the warfare. Artists began to express happy thoughts through painting to hopefully bring joy into one's lives. Kandinsky's contribution of paintings filled with shapes and…

Pablo Picasso's, the Guernica is a large mural sized painting on canvas. It is a dramatic painting depicting the tragedy and suffering that war has on innocent lives. The artwork embodies the stylistic fundamentals of both cubism and surrealism. The Guernica is complicated to decipher, as the images overlap and body parts of other figures are scattered within the images. (Cubism) A fundamental principle of cubism, created by Pablo Picasso, is the use of two dimensional imaging broken…

Diego Rivera was forty-one years old when Frida and him first got to know each other. He was born Diego Maria de la Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera Acosta y Rodriguez on December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico. His father was a school teacher and his mother own a candy store. Diego was considered a prodigy from a young age. When he was ten years old, he demanded that he be sent to an art school. He continued his elementary education during the day and went to a prestigious art…

Art is a great topic to converse and talk about because art is everywhere and it defines us all whether we realize it or not art is upon us and describes our ways and the story of our live's. Throughout art's history in old Spain there were two famous painters who enjoyed art known as the great and famous Picasso and Velázquez. As a matter of fact these two famous painters painted things for a reason and that reason was to tell the world the stories of their live's through drawing and paintings…

Las Meninas is a painting by Diego Velazquez. It was painted in 1656 and translates to The Maids of Honor. It portrays King Philip IV’s daughter, Infanta Margarita, the princess. Later in 1957, Pablo Picasso, another Spanish painter, combined his cubistic style and crazy color palate to make an interesting and original idea for the classic Las Meninas painting. Diego Velazquez's Las Meninas was focused on the the maids. It is obvious because the of the title and he has all of the…

For this art assignment the artwork I decided to write about was a piece by an artist named Pablo Picasso. One of the artworks I picked that he made was a piece named, Three Musicians. This artwork is in the New York Museum of Modern Art now. He painted this artwork when he was younger. While he was with his family in the Fontainebleau in the summer of 1921. Three Musicians measure more than two meters wide and high. It is painted in the style of Synthetic Cubism and gives appearance of cut…

Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 to parents Salvador Dali Cusi and Felipa Domenech Ferres. Dali was born in Figueres, a small town outside of Barcelona, to a wealthy family. His father was a prominent notary which may have lead to his firm parenting. On the other hand his mother was gentle and often indulged in Salvador’s extraordinary behaviors. Also Salvador’s mother was a faithful catholic while his father was atheist, the combo definitely played a role in Salvador’s views on faith.…

Introduction The objective of this paper is to discuss how Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse and Pablo Picasso can be seen as in being inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne’s work of art The Large Bathers. Through this paper I will briefly discuss the lives of all three individuals and their influences in an effort to understand how these painters each had their own unique style. Who was Matisse? Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse lived from 1869 to 1954, he was a french citizen. He started early…

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was a large oil painting painted by Pablo Picasso in 1907. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon essentially means the Ladies of Avignon. It took Picasso seven sketches in order to get his masterpiece to perfection. Pablo at the beginning stages of sketching had been deciding whether to incorporate males or females but he settled on females. This painting portrays five naked female prostitutes in a brothel (modern day strip club).The women in the painting have masks on their face…

Picasso and Matisse were two of the best inspired artistes during the 20th century that change how other people look at art not only back then, but continue inspiring in the year 2015. Art is a beautiful is something were we can express our feelings. Art is not just about drawing and making things look nice, there so much more to it. Looking at a piece of work we can realize many things, how the artist was feeling at moment or if their were trying to tell us a message. Art has develop a lot…