A majority of artist use the physical world and personal experiences as a canvas to create artworks that have impacted the way we look at the world. Focus artists in this essay include classical artists Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Post-Modern artist Tim Hawkinson. This essay will analyse an artwork by each artist and show that they are examples of many who draw inspiration from their surroundings, whether it came from history, personal backgrounds and experiences or simply physical features of the world around them.
Pablo Picasso was born on October 25th, 1881, and grew up to be one of the most influential 20th century artists in symbolism, surrealism and Cubism. He was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer. Picasso was born into a creative family. As his father was a painter, he quickly followed in his footsteps and was studying art formally from 11 years old. Several paintings from his teenage years still exist, such as First Communion (1895). He created an important example at every stage of his career from the classical works of the 1920s to the works produced in occupied Paris during the 1940s.
Guernica (1937) by Picasso is one of the most famous paintings of all time. The painting reveals the importance of Spain, war, and most of all bullfighting. Picasso’s connection to his homeland of Spain is evident in Guernica, named after a small country town in north Spain that was the target of a terror bombing exercise by the
Picasso has strongly focused to give a political statement in his painting, it gives the viewers a message that killing of innocent people, violence, unrest in the region, bombing and the overall destruction is of no use to humanity and it only gives harm and pain. He is trying to tell the people that peace and harmony is the only solution that would benefit the world. Though the painting Guernica was painted by Picasso as a reply to the bombings and unrest in Spain by the German and Italian forces in Spanish civil war, the painting has not only created its affect for the Guernica of that time but also it has left a message and meaning for us and years to come. The unrest in many conflicted regions today, like what happened in the Arab spring
Similar to Goya’s painting, Guernica was a commissioned painting by the Spanish Democratic Government to be displayed at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris, France to show the outrages of Francisco Franco and his allies. Picasso, an ex-pat of Spain living in France, was very vocal in his criticism of and opposition to the Militant Autocracy of his home, and agreed to paint a picture. He had already started on a piece for the fair when he read an article by George Steer about the event in The Times titled, “The Tragedy of Guernica: A Town Destroyed in Air Attack: Eye-Witness’s Account”. Steer described the German bombing of the city so vividly that Picasso was immediately moved to action. He stopped focusing on the Mural and from May 1st spent the next 3 weeks leading up to the exhibit and two weeks after working on his masterpiece until it was completed in Early
Diego Rivera: Mexican Painter Diego Rivera was a big man both literally and figuratively. He dominated the Mexican art world from after the Mexican revolution until his death. In the online article entitled, “The Painting on the Wall”, by Peter Schjeldahl, we see Rivera revive and put to use the antique medium of fresco painting. The Fresco painting used things such as pigments to impregnate a paste of marble, dust and water-treated lime (Schjeldahl).
“ Every good composition is above all work of abstraction. All good painter’s cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment .” - Diego Rivera. Rivera was a famed Mexican muralist. Diego Rivera was born on December 8,1886.
He spend a large amount of time enjoying the same pastimes as his father. Together his father’s influence on his was vast. Since Picasso was eight years old his art notes his talent and ability. His influences of other know artists like Velasquez and Zurbaran were notable.
There are few instances when a person is influenced by something to the extent of questioning their life. Something that is so powerful that it can create emotion in all of the people who experience it. Artists fight to create this something in order to connect people through it. However, in today’s culture where fads come and go it is often difficult to find such works of art.
While Pablo was growing up as a child he lost interest in school so he resorted to sketching through each class that lost his attention. When Pablo Picasso reached his teens in 1895; he soon but himself into a fine art school in Barcelona, Spain where he retreated to his old habits and started to skip his classes. Then two years later he moved and repeated his old habits at Royal Academy of San Fernando. So, then he ran and joined an artistic spree of people where he learned from others about the arts on his own terms. Pablo Picasso was known to have a father with some artistic abilities and a mother
Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. Goldsworthy think of art as a form of nourishment. He works with time and he doesn’t like the sensation of traveling. When he travel, he goes straight to work. He works with everything including ice, leaves, trees, rocks and many more.
One of the leading artists that made a big impact with his paintings is no one other than Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso is a well know painter in our day and he was known for his many beautiful works. But he has a work that stands out in-between all the others; his most know painting; a painting that criticizes a certain act of war rather than just being an imaginary product. The act that we are talking about here is the bombing practice of the Nazi’s on Guernica and the painting is a reaction to this inhuman event. “Guernica” was Picasso’s most powerful politic statement and his most known artwork (Guernica).
Tania Labonte Arh1000 Tues and Thurs 8:25am-9:40am Salvador Dali Salvador Dali born Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech, is Spanish artist and Surrealist. Dali was born in Catalonia, a region in Spain on the 11th of May 1904. From a young age Dali excelled in drawing and painting.
Compare and Contrast: “Guernica” and “Executions of The Third of May” At first glance viewing “Guernica” painted by Pablo Picasso, and “Executions of The Third of May” painted by Francisco Goya, they look nothing alike. When examining further, it is clear that these paintings both share similar ideas, and differences. In the paintings of “Guernica” and “Executions of The Third of May”, they show deep sadness and destruction. It is obvious to the eye that “Executions of The Third of May” is in color, and “Guernica” painted in black, white, and grey.
This piece of art confirms the power and the emotional state of everyone that was captured during this horrifying day for Spain. Francisco Goya paints a Spanish worker with his hands up just moments before he was massacred on the hill they call Principe Pio hill. This Spanish man speaks out for all those Spaniards who were murdered. His arms straight out on each said of his head represents Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. He wears a white shirt that represents an angel trying to prove his innocence.
The painting Les Demoiselles D Avignon by Picasso is considered one of the most important work that defined the era of Cubism in modern art. The central argument in my paper is to understand Les Demoiselles D Avignon as a revolutionary painting of Modern Art. One of the important aspects of Cubism is the wide influence of African art and masks, primitivism and African sculpture. The painting Les Demoiselles d Avignon by Picasso
Both De Beauvoir and Picasso had started their work after wars; she wrote the second sex after the French revolution as Picasso drew some of his paintings after the Spanish civil war. Their work depended on how they were influenced by the results of the war. De Beauvoir believed that war was a main reason which reinforces inferiority of women. Unlike Picasso who took the war as a starting point to his work; thus he painted Guernica. He embodied her writing in creating deep-misunderstood masterpieces.
Before analysing further into these figures, It is best to understand who Picasso is, and the historical & personal context of the painting. Picasso was one of the most influential and