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Born in Italy during the Italian Renaissance, Sofia Anguissola was the first internationally recognized female artist. Influenced equally by grand mannerists and realistic portraitists, Anguissola was a pioneer in portraiture and genre painting. This paper examines the events and paintings that advanced her career and prominence. Sofonisba Anguissola, born into a noble family in Cremona, was not the daughter of an artist, unlike most female painters at that time. However, through the…

Moulin de la Galette was painted by Pierre Auguste Renoir, completed in 1876. Bathers at Asnieres was painted by Georges Seurat, completed in 1884. Both paintings were created by French painters Moulin de la Galette and Bathers at Asnieres are similar by color scheme but differentiate by detail and mood. The technique of the artworks contrast noticeably. The Moulin de la Galette has no open space. They cover the canvas with people, all doing different things. Some people are dancing, while…

The artist I have selected is Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. The greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, as well as the co-creator of Cubism. “Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to—and paralleled the entire development of—modern art in the 20th century.” The personal life Pablo Picasso was in his father’s footsteps…

Pablo Picasso’s artistic career can be categorized into several, distinct periods. The general sentiments of these eras range from melancholy to romantic depending on the events ongoing in Picasso’s life at that time. In 1900, Picasso had just initiated his profession as an artist and was impecunious. His distressful lifestyle in the early 1900’s was conveyed through his first period, the Blue Period. Many Blue Period art pieces, such as “The Old Guitarist” and “The Sleeping Drinker”, are…

Cubism is a very di erent style of painting, and some may think that it is strange and not very visually appealing. The aesthetic rules of individual human brain may nd it di cult to follow, however, if broken into pieces, the color, perspective, and composition may nd a way to appeal and tell the story that is hidden within. Pablo Picasso executed this awlessly, and created the title for himself, the face of Cubism. Pablo Picasso was born October 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. He came from a…

Pablo Picasso: The Greatest Artist of the 20th Century For the astonishing stylistic width and intellectual depth displayed in his artworks, Pablo Ruiz Picasso was, without any doubt, one of the greatest, most controversial, and influential visual artist of the 20th century. During the several significant stylistic shifts Picasso went through—most notably the Blue Period, Rose Period, Cubist Period, African Period, and Surrealist Period—Picasso explored the emotionally provocative power of…

Contemporary world History Christina Cagol EXAM 1 September 8, 2014 1. Pablo Picasso and George Braque founded cubism in the early 20th century in Paris. It was an artwork to be considered as the first radical approach in expressing visual reality. According to Cubist, any perception of an object was a composite of simultaneous and different perspectives. Cubism tries to help one understand the world around them in a different way by changing their perspective on a certain subject.…

Picasso was traditionally trained by his father, José Ruiz y Blasco, a Spanish painter. A child prodigy that made a name for himself by departing from his traditional training and creating works of art that revolutionized the art world. Picasso’s most famous painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, broke from the traditional style of the time. The balance of classical paintings can be seen with balance with five figures represented—one in the center of the painting, flanked by two figures on each…

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and architect who is widely considered to be the most influential artist during the first half of the twentieth century. Born on October 25, 1881, Pablo lived until 1973 when he died of a fatal heart attack. However, a man of many talents, Picasso contributed to many art forms, styles of art, and has inspired revolutionary risks among art lovers during his lifetime and beyond. Throughout his entire life and through all of his work Pablo Picasso has been…

Picasso had such a painful birth and was such a debilitated big baby that when he was born, the deliver of conception that he was stillborn so she left him on a tablet to await his mammy. It was his uncle, a medical named Don Salvador, that protect him. Doctors at that time habit to smoke big cigars, and my nunk was no disapprobation. When he saw me fabling there he blew fag into my face. To this I immediately reacted with a mouth and a clamor of fury” - Pablo Picasso. It 's like Picasso was…