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Art is the key to the expression of the artist’s thoughts and their feelings. The strokes of the brush, the depth, and intent in the strokes have a message to share with the viewer. It is for this that the aim of this paper is to look at Pablo Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica. Upon first glance, the painting is filled with straight lines that are both horizontal and vertical. These are used in the creation of scenarios where everything seems to be in symmetry. Furthermore, the painting seems to…

Art is based on influences and creative works, having the ability to visualize outside influences while manipulating them in the artist’s own imagination is truly stunning. Henri Matisse along with Pablo Picasso are few of many that could use that outside “influence” and depict it in a beautiful and subtle way. African sculptures and tribal masks caused a vast effect on both artists, and so each artist adopted the use of this non-Western art form in different ways. African art was introduced to…

Cubism was a movement developed in the 20th century by Pablo Picasso and George Braque. In its most simple analytical stage, cubism abstracted the forms of the visible world into fragment of multiple points of view, then created an image from them which had its own inner logic. Picasso and Braque began working together in 1909, and by 1910 their experimentations were so closely linked that their styles became practically undistinguishable. Pablo Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, which…

Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, stage designer, poet, and playwright throughout the twentieth-century. During his career he geared more towards different types of Cubism, along with Surrealism. One of his most monumental paintings named “Guernica” combines both Analytic and Synthetic Cubist forms. It is said that this painting serves a political message towards Picasso’s powerful protest against the brutality of war. Dating to 1937, Pablo…

When people think of artists, one of the first artists that will come to mind is Pablo Picasso. He was not just known for painting, but also sculpting, drawing, and ceramics. He was not like other artists in the respect that he didn’t stick with just one medium. Picasso was one of the most influential artists that existed during the 20th century. Pablo Picasso was born in Spain in 1881. “He was exposed to art from a very early age by his father, who was a painter and art instructor” (National…

The famous very dark painting that shows pain and chaos on innocent civilians. Picasso was working on a mural for the Paris Exhibition that was to be held in the summer of 1937.This lead to the Spanish Civil war lasted from 1936-1939 which was seen as an anti-war. Picasso discontinued his idea of that mural on May 1st, 1937 so that he could be working on the painting Guernica. He did this because of the bombing that happen in his country. Throughout the painting created a atmosphere of the…

Of the countless artists throughout history, most pale in comparison to the great Pablo Picasso. Few have created revolutionary new styles of art, and not many have the comprehensive knowledge of their domain to freely adapt from one form to another. However, these artistic gifts did not fall freely into Picasso’s lap, rather, his life progressed through stages of grief and loss. Picasso sacrificed significant personal relationships and sanity for creativity’s sake, solidifying his own…

Salvador Dali was one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century and he was also a well-renowned surrealist. Dali would create crazy things with his imagination; “Dali was renowned for his flamboyant personality and role of mischievous provocateur as much as for his undeniable technical virtuosity. In his early use of organic morphology, his work bears the stamp of fellow Spaniards Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. His paintings also evince a fascination for Classical and Renaissance art,…

This essay discuses a pivotal work of art that forever changed Pablo Picasso’s life, it ushered in an era where he completely did away with traditional forms of art and became the infamous artist whose art beckons a range of emotion to its viewers. The significance Les Demoiselles d’Avignon has had for Picasso and to the rest of the world today is evident anywhere you look, whether it is in advertisements or in museums of modern art you are sure to find Picasso’s influence. Les Demoiselles…

Francisco Goya “The object of my work is to report the actuality of events.” —Francisco de Goya One of the reasons that I chose to write about Francisco Goya was that he is from Spain. I have heard my mother tell me many times that our ancestry comes from Spain. She says that our genealogy shows that we are descended from the great military leader from Spain, El Cid. My fascination with Spain does not disappoint as I have been able to learn more about the artist born on March 30, 1746,…