Pablo Escobar

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: The Portrait’s effect on Cubism and Abstract Art When someone sees a simple painting of vibrant triangles and simple shapes representing humans, the viewer will often wonder if the certain piece is painted by Pablo Picasso. What many do not realize is that Picasso did not just start off painting shapes and abstract-like sketches. He went through many phases of art including: his blue and rose period, realism, surrealism, and cubism. The creation of cubism is by far the…

planes. Other distinguishing features of analytical cubism were a simplified palette of colors, so the viewer was not distracted from the structure of the form. Artist Jacques Lipchitz did most of his work based on cubism, who he was inspired by Pablo Picasso during his time being in Paris, France. During that time he created one of his famous art pieces name the Bather. Which is a sculpture of a woman based on geometric shapes. Bather is plaster painted to simulate bronze. The exact size of…

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…

Savoury Suggestions When presented with the idea of savouring many ideas come to mind, a moment in time, a delectable dinner, or a profound piece of literature. The dictionary defines savour as being both a noun and a verb. The noun can in itself provoke the verb, for instance triggering an individual’s senses can invoke the emotions that bring forth a distinct and favorable response. Walking into a garden filled with colorful and aromatic flowers can prompt a person to relish the moment and…

Painting/drawing has been around since prehistoric times and stretches threw every culture on earth. Painting and drawing are a form of art in which the artist produces works of art to be appreciated by the viewer for their beauty or emotional power. For centuries, across cultures spread around continents the history of art/painting has been growing in an ongoing watercourse of genius and creativity that still continues in today’s twenty first century world. Before the coming of the twentieth…

Exploration Essay: Cubism Cubism was developed in the early twentieth century by Pablo Picasso (Stokstad and Cothren 516). Cubism can be described as small cubes and geometrical shapes that eventually form an image. According to Apollinaire, Podoksik, and Eimert, “it was the task of the viewer…to put this puzzle of various spatial views together into a whole” (29). This is evident in Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque’s artwork. Although Picasso and Braque worked together creating their own…

development of Cubism and the way it questioned reality and abstraction itself. Cubism is retrospectively defined as the time between 1907-1920 and is split into two sections, which will be discussed in the body of the essay. The two main artists are Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963) At the turn of the century the world was changing more rapidly than had ever before. Technological innovations, theoretical…

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain, in 1881 and was the only son of Jose Ruiz and Maria Picasso. Pablo’s father was never home. He chose to spend his time cavorting at the bars with his friends. Whether, he was unfaithful to Maria remains in question. Jose was an art teacher and a painter. Many would say he was a failed painter. Jose dreamed of becoming famous for his artwork. He chose to paint pigeons. I can say that painting pigeons is not a very exciting subject matter. No wonder he…

His obsession with El Greco started when he went to study in Madrid where he was impressed by El Greco’s magnificent heads. As early as 1899 he had filled page after page of a sketchbook with caricatures of Greco-like portraits, often with flamboyant ruff collars, exaggerating their pointed chins, their schematic quality and their hyper-refined tonality. One of his heads even had the inscription: Yo El Greco, yo Greco! Shortly afterwards Picasso’s Blue Period followed and there his pictures were…

The female nude, a longstanding western tradition in art is used to express ideas of beauty. It soon became a site to address the immediate changes in the modern industrial world, representing the female nude as a vessel to address the urban modernization of the roles of women. The portrayal of the female nude in Henri Matisse’s Bathers by a River uses the nude to express his frustrations with the Battle of Verdun. Initially, it was conceived in 1909 as a scene of arcadian leisure, but then…