ART ANALYSIS POWERPOINT
Pablo Picasso (you can be creative to choose a title)
Art 100 Art Appreciation
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Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)
Biography
Pablo Picasso is considered to be one of the most famous painters in the twentieth century. He was born in Malaga, Spain on October 20, 1881. In addition to painting, Picasso was also a printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright. He spent most of his adult life in France.
Early life
Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age. According to his mother, his first words were "piz, piz", a shortening of lápiz, the Spanish word for "pencil". From the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting. On one occasion, the father found his son painting over his unfinished sketch of a pigeon. Observing the precision of his son's technique, the father felt that the thirteen-year-old Picasso had surpassed him and vowed to give up painting.
Fame
Picasso grew up to become one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Picasso is now regarded as one of the artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century
Personal life and Death
Picasso had affairs with a lot of women and was married twice and had four children, Paulo, Maya, Claude and Paloma by three women. He died on 8 April 1973 in Mougins, France, while he and his wife Jacqueline entertained friends for dinner. He was interred at the Chateau of Vauvenargues near Aix-en-Provence, a property he had acquired in 1958 and occupied with Jacqueline between 1959 and 1962. Jacqueline Roque prevented his children Claude and Paloma from attending the funeral. Devastated and lonely after the death of Picasso, Jacqueline Roque killed herself by gunshot in 1986 when she was 59 years old.
The weeping woman October 26, 1937 Oil on canvas t has been in the collection of the Tate Modern in London since 1987 and is currently located there.
Analysis
The color scheme used in the painting seems like a mystery. Picasso frequently used a monochrome or even a grisaille palette when evoking pain and suffering. By contrast, the palette used in "Weeping Woman" incorporates all the major colors, including red, yellow, blue, as well as orange, green and brown. I think Picasso was trying to imbue the woman with strong feelings.
The most obvious meaning of the "Weeping Woman", when interpreted against the background of the ongoing civil war in Spain, is straightforward. Formally dressed, as though at a funeral or other place of mourning, she represents the harrowing grief experienced by mothers, sisters and others, following the death of a loved one, especially during wartime. As in Guernica, the focus is on the pain and suffering endured by innocent civilians.
Guernica June 1937 Painting Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Analysis
The scene depicted in Guernica is a room full of moving, screaming and dying adults, children and animals. Most of the individual images are also symbols (see suggested meaning in brackets). On the left, a bull (virility of man) pierced by jagged shrapnel (its wounds plus its passivity suggests man is in trouble) stands over a wailing woman with a dead child in her arms (pietaimage, the age-old suffering of women in war). In the center a horse (representing innocent people) is whinnying in agony from a terrible injury in its side. Underneath the horse are the shattered remnants of a dead soldier; in the grip of the hand on his severed arm is a broken sword out of which a flower grows. On the palm of his other hand signs of the stigmata of Christ are visible, indicating martyrdom. Above the dying horse is a blazing light (symbolizes incendiary bombs that fell on the town), which is also reminiscent of the bare bulb in a prison cell (torture). On the horse's right, an open-mouthed woman seems to have stuck her head and arm through a window (horrified observer). In her hand she holds a lighted lamp. Another confused woman moves from the right towards the light in the center (dazed victim). On the extreme right of the room, a figure screams in agony as it is engulfed by flames (innocent victim).
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1907 Oil on canvas The museum of modern art
Analysis
The picture is like a cinematic close-up. The five women - each over seven feet tall - are shockingly present, pressing themselves to the surface of the picture. The color of their flesh makes them appear starkly naked rather than merely nude. T he way the figures are grouped is also striking there appears to be no connection between them, which heightens the drama of the picture as well as its uncertainty. The two central women, in particular, are especially provocative: they stare expressionlessly out at the viewer, while lifting their arms to show their breasts. These women - all aggressively flaunting their nudity - are real prostitutes with no hang-ups about what they have to offer. The head of one figure (top right) is covered with a primitive mask; while a second, squatting, figure (bottom right) is also masked, although her face is made up of multiple views, like a badly arranged jigsaw.
Conclusion
Picasso the artist became the genius that can only be compared with few human beings. He rewarded art not just with his creative and unique styles, but also with the numerous paintings, drawings, and sculptures he produced. Picasso was a troubled, eccentric, problematic man who could never settle down with a woman or a place of residence, maybe what we could call a "free spirit". Picasso, the man, was also an activist. He fought for peace until his last days. However, no matter how troubled Picasso was, the man was overshadowed by his own art. In addition, even though one might not like his works, one cannot deny that without Picasso, modern art and the world would be much poorer, so that is why I decided to present about one of my favorite artists of all times, the unique Pablo Picasso.
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