Pablo Picasso

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…

We can determine what made modern art “back then” by analyzing artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali. Henri Matisse’s “The Joy of Life (Le Bonheur de Vivre)” was created during Fauvism period. This work of art is considered to be modern because of it’s strong colors. Matisse like to use colors that where pure, and soft-wavy shape. “Matisse used pure colors and the white of exposed canvas to create a light-filled atmosphere in his Fauve paintings. Rather than using…

“Girl with a Turban.” However, in the second part of the twentieth century, the name was changed. This painting has traveled all around the world because of its beauty and uniqueness. “Who is the model and why has she been painted?” This is the question people have been asking for years. One of the most loved paintings in the world is a mystery. So much about this painting is unknown, almost making it more attractive. The attentive look of the young girl in the painting makes the viewer feel as…

have had a major impact on society and have also had to go through criticism. Although critics generate thought, which in turn induces new ideas. Every individual should have the right to think and speak as they wish. Which is why James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, and Jimi Hendrix have broken all the rules in trying to express themselves through their art. Although that amount of freedom didn’t come easily, that did not stop these artists from perusing their goal. For instance, Modernism was the most…

Comparing Bonheur de Vivre and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon to The Large Bathers Introduction I would like to begin by examining how 'The Large Bathers' was unique compared to the classical forms and how Cezanne had impacted the later artists, including Picasso and Matisse. Similarities between the three paintings are its subject: the human bodies. Since the period of Renaissance, the human body had been sacrosanct and was viewed with the most respect, a primary vehicle for artists to convey ideas…

opening”. E.E Cummings was born October 14 1894 in Cambridge, MA. E.E Cummings started to write poetry at a young age after that he went to Harvard, he was encouraged to do poetry by a cubist painter known as Pablo Picasso. E.E Cummings was also a painter he was also encouraged by Pablo Picasso. First of all, he used auditory and visual techniques to create meaning. The question is how does he use those techniques to create meaning. When he makes poetry he uses visual…

For example, on page 359 in Humanistic Tradition by Gloria Fiero, there’s painting of unclothed women in a variety of landscape; other paintings are more expressive than others and etc. Specifically, Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon by Pablo Picasso. Furthermore, Pablo Picasso has a variety of expressive women paintings. In contrast, women expressionism was prominent and also abstraction of photography and nonobjective art. Nonobjective was an important part of the art movement because, “had all come…

Pablo Picasso created his painting Women Plaiting Her Hair in 1906 using oil paint on a canvas. Just as the title suggest, the painting shows a women unclothed (naked) braiding her hair. The painting is currently being exhibited/ belongs to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The painting is of medium size (50 x 35 ¾’’/ 127 x 90.8 cm). Just looking at the painting the viewer can get a sense of feel of the women painted of the canvas. With the minimum use of different colors Picasso has…

unfinished at the time of his death in 1906. It is often considered Cezanne’s finest work (“The Bathers (Cézanne)”, 2016). Cezanne aimed to disregard current trends and give a timeless quality to his work. Two upcoming artists, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, is said to be influenced by this painting. In 1906, Henri Matisse finished the Bonheur de Vivre, or the “Joy of Life”, which seems to be closest to Cezanne’s image of bathers,…

norm was exactly what the Rite of Spring and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon did. Ground breaking can be controversial and dangerous when it is perceived as disrespectful and degrading. I will show how these two pieces of work from Igor Stravinsky and Picasso did just that all the while expanding the genres by the use of primitivism breaks from the norm. Igor Stravinsky was born in June of 1882 in Russia, he was a revolutionary composer whose works include Symphony in E-flat Major, The Faun and the…