Comparing Paintings by Pablo Picasso and Alberto Morrocco
I have decided to contrast and compare paintings by cubist artist
Pablo Picasso and contemporary artist Alberto Morrocco.
I have studied their paintings to find out their influences and any
similarities between their work. I have tried to find a source of their
motivation and reason for their interpretations.
Firstly, I am going to write about cubist artist, Pablo Picasso.
Inspired by artist Paul Cezanne, the father of analytical cubism,
Picasso attempted many styles of work. He experimented with different
media and use of colour, throughout his artistic career. His paintings
reflected his moods and attitudes, which changed several times during
the course of his life. As a result of this, groups of his painting
can be separated into 'periods'. A very famous period Picasso
developed was his 'Blue Period', where the paintings of this time were
blue in colour and portrayed him to be unhappy. An example of this is
' The Tragedy' painted in 1903. The painting is of a family standing
on a beach, frozen like statues. In my perception, it takes on the
image of a snapshot, eternally showing these still lonely figures. The
painting looks cold due to Picasso's use of blue, submitting further
the idea of unintimacy and absence of love within this solemn family.
I understand why Picasso adopted such a melancholy atmosphere; it was
a result of his friend committing suicide in 1901. His use of thick
brush strokes and realistic perception of a family drowned by the
presence of poverty, portray an image of deep sorrow and sadness.
A painting that resembles Picasso's 'The Tragedy' is the 'Siesta' by
Alberto Morrocco painted in 1971. Picasso and artist Henri Matisse had
great influence Alberto Morrocco. Inspiration also came from his
principal teacher James Cowie, who encouraged Morrocco to make
painting his career.
The 'Siesta' shows a female child sleeping naked on a table. Sitting
behind her is a woman, presumably her mother, who is awake and holing
a sunflower. This also can be perceived as a photographic image. I
feel as though the woman is staring directly at the camera, her eyes
fixated upon me. This highlights one similarity between Morrocco's
'Siesta' and Picasso's 'The Tragedy' purely by choice of composition.
Another similarity I have discovered is that both art...
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Both these paintings are similar also in colour. The colours used are
bright, strong and effective. I believe that the colour concepts bring
each painting to life. Picasso used natural colours to represent the
natural significance of the objects in this painting. This makes me
feel comfortable and at peace. Morrocco chose olive green, reds and
blues to capture the essence of his native Italy. This, in my opinion,
gives the painting a special quality and is very pleasing to look at.
Picasso's 'Bread Fruit Dish on a Table' is a fantastic example of how
he experimented with shape and tried to teach himself and learn
through experience the techniques of analytical cubism. He later used
this new knowledge to develop cubism further and create a new, unique
style which he called synthetic cubism.
Alberto Morrocco sought inspiration from Picasso's cubist phase and
tried out the style himself. ' Homage a Braque' is a very interesting
painting which clearly shows similarities between his paintings and
those by Pablo Picasso. However, Morrocco gave an incentive of himself
into his painting making it his own masterpiece.
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