Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

The Kingdom of Benin Kingdom of Benin, was an independent country located in West Africa, in the fifteenth century, it was the major power of the West Africa, which is the south west of Nigeria currently. It was first discovered by the Portuguese, when the Portuguese traders built some business relationship with the merchants of Benin, and this was the first cultural encounter between Benin and Europe, but how exactly did this cultural encounter influence on the people of Benin? And How Did it…

There is a neoclassical painting that suspends on the wall at the National Gallery of Art In Washington DC, called The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries (Fig 1.) that was painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1812. The painting showcases a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte as the French Emperor. However, the embedded symbols—like the honeybees, books written by Plutarch, classic French military uniform, map scrolls and dripping wax candles—in the composition communicates political power.…

Surrealism “The Surrealist artists like bravery and strength, but both without pathos; love, preferably in the most earthly meaning of the word; intelligence without slickness, strict rebelliousness, despising all social prosperity and security for themselves. They believe that no new life can come about without violence” (Jacob Bendien). Surrealism, one the most distinctive movements was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1971. Brenton defined Surrealism as “Psychic automatism, in its pure…

Pablo Picasso’s work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon presents a very innovative form and technique supporting this idea. This work disrupts conventional modes of representation by rejecting realism and embracing abstraction. The abstraction view introduces two perspectives, no boundary between…

argument for the aesthetic quality of appropriating culture. As one of many examples of past appropriation, he writes, “Picasso was engaged in innovative content appropriation when he borrowed ideas from African carvers in such paintings as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)” (Young 2006:458). Although Young argues for the benefits of cultural appropriation, it should still be regarded as cultural theft because it takes away from other cultures, regardless of whether the appropriation is…

Scream“(1893) (Fig.5). This technique reduced the reality more and more to the essential embassy. The Cubism (1907 - 1911), focused on collaging and a combination of different materials, established and supported by Pablo Picasso‘s painting of „Les Demoiselles d‘Avignon“ (1907) (Fig.6), abandons the primary focus on one viewpoint. The multiplicity of an object in its materiality, but also in its meaning gets more attention. It might seem as a maximalist approach, but still, the artist…

Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurists' interest in motion? |a. |The City | |b. |Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash | |c. |Champs de Mars or The Red Tower | |d. |The Portuguese…

Aquí está la lista de artistas para el proyecto sobre los artistas. Los artistas son de países diferentes. Quiero que tú busques información sobre cada artista. Primero, encuentra 5 hechos curiosos (facts) y detalles importantes por cada artista. Segundo, corta y pega los links en esta página con los hechos. Oswaldo Guayasamín Guayasamín was born in Quito, Ecuador,to a native father and a Mestiza mother, both of Quichua descent His family was poor and his father worked as a carpenter…

Hello, and welcome to the St. Edward’s University Art Gallery. Today is an exhibition that reflects artwork that demonstrates the progressiveness of artist after moving past the more traditional and classical artwork. This audio guide will have you following along the paintings on the wall, and lastly the sculptures and models in the middle of the gallery. Watch your step and enjoy! Entering the gallery from the left door, looking to your right on the wall you will find Edvard Munch’s” Night in…

In an effort to describe the modernist painting, Clement Greenberg in his publication The Collected Essays and Criticism, makes simplified and exaggerated claims. Despite his best efforts, most of his assertions are shrouded in oversight and lack the necessary premises to be adjudged as an entirely objective and salient. His comments on modern art’s effects on human senses and relations with space, are one of said claims. He states: “The Old Masters created an illusion of space in depth that…