Pablo Picasso. A household name to many - be it good or bad. Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous and influential artists of the 20th century. He is best known, as pablopicasso.org states, “for co-founding the cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work.” This was an odd progression considering the fact that most of his younger years were spent painting in a mostly realistic style. This all began to change around the 12th century, when Picasso began to push the limits of his creativity and the mediums he experimented with. A few of these numerous mediums were oil paintings, sculpture, drawings, and even architecture. Maybe his use of a vast range of mediums was part of the reason he became so renowned or maybe he it was the boundaries of art and plagiarism he was pushing. Either way, Picasso gained a mass audience and a major fortune in his own lifetime. Something no other artist before him had achieved. His artworks were and still are the “subjects of unending analysis, gossip, dislike, adoration and rumor”, according to Pablopicasso.org. Perhaps one of his most famous and strongest political statements made in a painting was made in his work, Guernica. So what does Pablo Picasso have to say about the meaning and rationale behind Guernica, what’s his voice in the matter?
Guernica was initially a work that Picasso was to create for the Spanish Pavilion in 1937’s World Fair in Paris. Guernica didn’t come to Picasso easily though. Pbs.org states that Pablo Picasso searched for inspiration for “three months” before “April 27th, 1937 when unprecedented atrocities are perpetrated on behalf of Franco against the civilian population of a little Basque village in northern Spain. Chosen fo...
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Edgar Degas was born July 19th, 1834 in Paris, France. Born into wealth, Degas became well educated throughout his youth. He studied Law at the University of Paris, due to his father’s desire for him to achieve financial security on his own. However, his love for art was ever-present, even at a young age. He turned his bedroom into his own personal studio by age 18. During his time at the University of Paris, Degas met well-renowned artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who encouraged him to pursue his talent. Shortly after, Degas was accepted to the premiere Ecole des Beaux-arts ('School of Fine Arts'). Post attendance, Degas traveled to Italy for three years to continue his artistic studies. Degas life was nowhere near perfect, when he was 13 years old, his mother passed away. This caused him tremendous heartache, due to the fact that his mother was a lover of the arts; she was an opera singer and often gave recitals in their home (“Edgar Degas”). She inspired and encouraged his artistic ways.
Pablo Picasso is the worlds most renowned artist of the 20th century. He did a variety of skills related to the world of art. Most people remember him as just a painter, but he was more than that. He could do sculpting, drawing, engraving, lithographs, and more. One of his most famous periods of all time, The Blue Period showed all that he was capable of. More than the paintings above all else he learned all his abilities self-taught from his father and the schooling his father helped provide.
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Guernica is one of Pablo Picasso’s most well-known paintings in the world. It was created in response to the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian warplanes on April 26 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. The intention that Picasso had was to depict the scenes of the tragedies of the war and the loss of innocent lives. This terrible event was shown to us in the painting as Picasso utilized a number of symbolic images through the helplessness of the many faces and how war brings upon destruction and grief.
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’ [20] See David Mitchell, ‘The Spanish Civil War,’ p.4.
This book is a compilation of several articles about the Spanish Civil War by different authors each one dealing with a different subject matter. This is useful because it gives different perspectives on the war. However, the accuracy becomes compromised as there are conflicting points of view in the book that rr(a'y cause the information to be less reliable.
Graham, Helen. The Spanish Civil War: a very short introduction. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Along with George Braque, Picasso was responsible for the invention of cubism. Cubism is one of the most radical restructuring of the way that a work of art constructs its meaning. Cubism is a term that was derived from a reference made to geometric schemes and cubes. Cubism has been known as the first and the most influential of all movements in twentieth century art . Before Picasso did any cubism paintings, there were works exibititing a raw intensity and violence due to his reading of non western art aligned with European primitivism. This contrasting position provided the dynamic for Picasso’s work. In his paintings such as Mother and Child, Picasso showed the fetishistic and simplifying aspects of primitivism. In his paintings Picasso used bright hues and subdued grays and earth colors. Picasso found out that shapes could have meaning and identities by their arrangement .
"The Spanish Civil War: An Overview--by Cary Nelson." 2014. http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/scw/overview.htm (accessed 09 Mar 2014). Socialistworker.org - Socialistworker.org. The Spanish Civil War. 2014.
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Pablo Picasso is one of the most recognized and popular artists of all time. In Pablo’s paintings and other works of art, he would paint what he was passionate about and you can see his emotions take control throughout his paintings and other works of art. Pablo Picasso works of art include not only paintings but also prints, bronze sculptures, drawings, and ceramics. Picasso was one of the inventors of cubism. ” Les Demoiselles d'Avignon” is one of Picasso famous paintings; this is also one of Pablo’s first pieces of cubism.
The similarities are striking. This is probably due, in no small part, to the inspiration for both works. Picasso and Eliot shared a common inspiration for their masterpieces the atrocities of war. Guernica was a response by Picasso to the German Luftwaffe's bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. During this 1937 attack hundreds of civilians were killed.
Pablo Picasso and Raoul Dufy both had a very different vision than any artist back in their time had. They both wanted to show that art could be different, but at the same time also beautiful. However, not everyone back in their time thought it was beautiful. In their works they both used women to show their different style. Picasso used the method of Cubism and Dufy used the method of Fauvism. They both wanted to show how they thought that a woman should look to portray their different visions. These two works of art are both very different because, Picasso made his woman dark and exaggerated and not so pleasing to the eye. Meanwhile Dufy wanted to show the beauty and grace of his woman with his colors. They both show their brilliance by the way they portray their women.