The painting done by Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d 'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon), and the painting done by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Bathers at Moritzburg, may seem similar in many ways but are actually on opposite ends of the painting world of their time.
Starting with similarities, subject matter would be the first thing an audience would recognize if both paintings were side by side, for they both contain woman nude. Furthermore the color palette is slightly similar when painting the human form. Taking a deeper look into the settings of where these pictures may have been illustrated, Picasso 's painting is set in what appears to a bedroom of some sort showing maybe a sexual desire or seduction of the nude woman. Kirchner 's painting is set in what appears to be a pond or lake with a gathering of both the male and female figure, both which are nude, showing what could be a happy gathering of friends or family.
Style is also important to take into consideration when looking at works of art as well as the technique used to implement it on the canvas. Picasso, who we know to be famous for being very abstract with cubism type art, started to use this form within the painting of Les
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In Picasso the way he applied most of his color was with a solid color to show a feature like the back or arm and when it was time to switch to another color instead of mixing them there would be a separator. This is what helped bring in the cubism into his painting. Kirchner however didn’t use cubism and instead fused in color such as some green or blue to give almost shadow on the skin, since the setting is outside, to give the effect of shade or clouds, which also helps the setting be identified. Also instead of limiting the pallet he added more onto it to add more of a warm inviting feeling to his
The Two Bathers was influenced by the Mediterranean whiahc can be seen in this small piece of art with its meauserements of 12” x 9.5” crated in Paris in 1921. His work was inspired by antique statuary, from the Cycldic Islands. Pablo Picasso showed his art to his idol Andre Malraux:’ Only the sculptors of the islands found a way to transform “ fertility goddesses” into signs… its goddess, if you will, imean the magic object is no longer Fertilitty. In this painting it shows a sigh of fertility in my opinion while the women standing, is half hiding her nudity behing a white cloth which is a color of pureity, and the male lies on the ground while their vertical and horizaltal postions sturture the compostions.
The first and most obvious similarity is both paintings are about women. Although the subjects in both works of art are women, the Two Women on a Wharf painting appear to have heavy hearts and look to be consoling each other,
Pablo Picasso is certainly a genius who has left an indelible mark on his time. Consequently, many artists all over the world have had their own career influenced by his work. Among those artists can be listed Willem de Kooning, a Dutch American painter, and the Cameroonian artist Koko Komegne. For instance, both artists have had their early work, and later their career impacted by Picasso’s cubism. While de Kooning spent hours looking at each detail of Picasso’s paintings, Koko Komegne learnt to paint by reproducing the master’s artworks. Another thing both artists shared with Picasso through their career was the woman as subject matter. Unsurprisingly, de Kooning and Komegne have extensively painted the woman in their own career. Among all those pieces, Seated Woman, 1940, from Willem de Kooning and Toilette, 2006, from Koko Komegne are very similar; the characters on both pieces are ladies, and they have the same pose. However, although the two paintings are similar in term of descriptive subject matter, de Kooning and Komegne draw from their environment and their personal style to highlight their specificities.
Throughout history art has played a major role in society. It started out with paintings and went to photography and eventually to films. Artistic interpretation depended on whom the artist was and what he or she wanted to present to the audience. When it came to portraiture, whether it was paintings or photography, the idea of mimesis was very important. However important this may have been, the portraits were mostly products of the media and fashions during that time period. Whatever was popular during the time was used such as columns or curtains in the background. The face was the main focus in the painting and there was little focus on the body. Later on during photography the body was focused on more. Even though photography was used much later after paintings were used, it allowed the artist even more artistic interpretation because of the ability to play a different role and not having to be ones self. The artists that will be focused on are Frida Kahlo and Cindy Sherman. They lived during different periods and their artistic intentions varied because of that. They also had similarities in that they thought outside of the conventional roles. These women were both self-portraiture artists and although they were considered that their interpretations did not always make their portraits self-portraits. Traditionally the artist was an outsider, but when it came to self-portraiture they became the subject and the audience became the outsider. The similarities and differences of Frida Kahlo and Cindy Sherman’s art were tied into the strength and also vulnerability they had because of their roles as women. They wanted the audience to see a background story to the portraits and not just an image of a beautiful face.
Keeping in harmony with colors was an important task to explain women's behavior as wells as making artwork acceptable to every body. Crossing the social boundaries and limitations would only bring void and controversy in the created artwork, which can happen by wrong use of color or wrong presentation of women's image. But for the artists like Pablo Picasso explaining the things without any boundaries and social limitations was the important thing first. Since the artwork he created have crossing boundaries both culturally and artistically, a viewer can have broader perspectives and critical analysis of life, death, and desire or the morality as well as science and technology or fiction. Picasso explains all these things in one artwork called "Girl Before the Mirror", Oil on canvas, 5'4" X 4'3."
When talking about such a diverse subject as Art, opinions on the matter of influences, and even the title of “The First…”, begins to become a bit touchy. When it comes to being the ‘first, true modern art style”, Impressionism usually comes to everyone’s mind, although that can often be greatly debated. I, myself am at a toss-up of whether or not I fully agree or disagree with this argument, however, for the sake of this discussion, I will say that my opinion lies in favor of agreement.
In 1905 Pablo Picasso created what some call his finest masterpiece known as Family of Saltimbanques. This piece is now on display in the Chester Dale Collection in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. The Family of Saltimbanques was original made in Paris, France. As well much earlier in around 1720 painter Antoine Watteau created a painting known as The Italian Comedians. He painted this piece during his career in the theater. Although this piece was created in Italy, The Italian Comedians now has within the Chester Collection in the National Gallery of Art. Although both artists were from two very different time periods and had different life they both allowed for entertainment to influence and be used in their work.
The exhibition, Same but Different: Not Seen from the Naked eye, investigates the deeper meanings between similar art pieces. Some older masterpieces from Barnett Newman and Mondrian are also present within the enclosed venue. However, the selected pieces from the old Modern Artists are in relevance to the Co...
To conclude, both masterpieces provide a lot of food for thought and present an era of creativity that was accentuated with contrasting realities, one that is mindlessly racing forward, one that feels the urge to advance technically and become prosperous and rich just financially and another that's trying to put on the breaks and remind of the values that need to be preserved and passed on. In both paintings, one can see that torment, that urge to stop for a moment and reevaluate own life and collective journey in time.
It marks a point in time, where Picasso that took art by the hand and turned it around by 108 degrees. The art work shows five naked women, without a recognizable background. They are all making different poses, almost as if they were leaning against a wall. Some of the women have very abstracted faces, one of them looks as if she was wearing a mask. It portrays Picassos interest with African sculpture, and how he incorporated it into his passion for art. The way the women are drawn, with their bodies having sharp edges, shows how Picasso was starting to evolve the new style of cubism. It took Picasso months of revision to finally show this work in
The second painting was by George W. Bellows and named Shoghead. This painting brought a sense of ease and relaxation. I can picture myself on the top of the mountain listening to the waves crash on the sides. The open countryside topped by the clouds give the painting a sense of realism. The extremely bright blue water stands out the most, though the focal point is not clear. There is not an excessive use of paint. It is as if Bellows caked it on his brush and made quick short strokes. The use of such dark colors on the hill is a mystery. The terrain has a roughness that makes the painting come to life. The artist did a great job of showing the depth. If I had to guess, he was influenced by Picasso’s work because of the extensive use of thick point.
Claude Monet is often accredited as the leading member of the Impressionist movement. His work in Impression, Sunrise is the painting that gave birth to the movement. Here we can perceive Monet’s use of a limited palette: muddy blues and gray establish a somewhat somber mood – contrasted by a bright orange, representing the sun at dusk. Seizing the viewer’s attention is a figure in a boat, an effect the artist has achieved by painting the background boats a lighter, blurrier gray. Not only is this technique executed in this painting, but on a vast majority of Monet’s work. However, Monet’s Water Lilies series could serve as a counterclaim to such statement, as they fail so focus on a single subject, instead blurring everything on the canvas. Edgar Degas exceeds beyond Bardo’s definition of Impressionism. Though his seamless use of perspective and focus on subjects appear a good fit to the Impressionist movement, Degas referred to himself as a Realist or Independent artist. Indeed, he did share a preference for depicting the middle class – emphasizing figures, lights, and shadows – rejecting the Impressionist color theory.
...the two paintings come from different historic art periods. Another difference is the absence of the nude in Claude Monet’s painting. The three paintings represent my theme: woman and nature very well. The combination of the woman figure in the outdoor world for me symbolizes the connection that women have with nature. They all reflect calmness, mystery and elegance.
This exhibit was put on in a studio in Paris that was owned by the famous photographer Nadar and featured around 30 different Impressionist artists (Lewis 149). In the beginning of the impressionist 's “career” as impressionists, they were mocked and not always credited as real artists, but they accepted the name of Impressionist 's, turning the derogatory term into one to identify themselves with. The entire Impressionist art movement was “an unthinking form of naturalism” and also “… the fruitful renovation of the French schools…” (Lewis 23, 155). This oppression can be seen as synonymous with that of the actual oppressed people of France of which Karl Marx was calling to change their future. Impressionists took control of their own art and didn 't back down when mocked, they found the passion inside themselves. They were mocked since Impressionism was a shift of creativity that was now “…identified with the individual, not within the social…” (Lewis 26). When one looks at an impressionism painting from that period of time, the passion and emotions of the scene come through the painting causing the viewer to feel how the artist felt when they experienced this scene while painting
In order to explore new venues of creativity Modernists tinkered with the perception of reality. During the Renaissance, the depiction of a subject was very straight forward. A painting had to look like what it represented. The truth was absolute and right and wrong were clearly defined. For Modernists, the world is much more obscure. In Impressionist paintings, lines are not definite and things tend to blur together. Faces usually do not differentiate one person from another.