Francise de Goya painted "Third of May 1808” in 1814 which is right after The Peninsular War. The painting is oil on canvas and the size is 266x345 centimeters. The huge size of the painting could simply imply the painter’s ambition. Also, the painting itself seems to convey some kind of story and created a overall mood. For the following paragraph, I will tentatively talk about some interesting details I found based on my observation. The painting’s composition as a whole is dividing it into two
Pablo Picassos is a well-known artist throughout history. His real name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso, but he was better known as just Pablo Picasso. Born in a creative family, he was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His father was a painter and he soon chose the same path as him, this made his father become his professor, beginning his art studies at the
education. Appendix Figure 1. Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. 1907. Oil on canvas, 8' x 7' 8" (243.9 x 233.7 cm Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. © 2003 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Figure 2. Head of a Woman (1907) Pablo Picasso and right: Dan Mask. Acquired from https://pixel77.com/influence-art-history-cubism/. Accessed on november 18, 2017. Copyright @ 2015 PIXEL77. Figure 3. The Guitar By Pablo Picasso (1913). Acquired from http://cubismsite
“Guernica” Pablo Picasso vs. “The Persistent of Memory” Salvador Dali. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”, said Picasso (Biography). To understand, and emphasized Picasso words, it is precise to consider that Spain and the world were divided, political unstable, concern and more engaged by the division of power as by seeking for peace. Spain suffers under Franco’s regime as a dictator, follow by the Spain Civil War, 1936-1939, and the World War II, 1939-1945(Don Quijote)
Introduction “Liberation of the Peon” is an art piece by Diego Rivera. The main subject of this artwork appears to be the tragedies of war. The image depicts four revolutionary soldiers who are seemingly releasing a slave from a stake where has been tied and perhaps left for dead. This appears to be the focal point of the art piece. There are clear beatings on the slave’s body and from the image; it is not easy to tell whether he is alive or dead. At the background of the image is a burning house
“Seated Harlequin”, European, Pablo Picasso, 1901 Subject: what is depicted and description In Pablo Picasso’s Seated Harlequin, you see his depiction of the harlequin. Normally, the harlequin wears a colorful diamond patterned costume, a black mask, and carries around either a baton or slapstick but Picasso decided to portray his harlequin differently. Picasso’s harlequin has a white face and is wearing a blue and black checkerboard patterned unitard with white ruffs. The harlequin is sitting down
This painting, by Francisco Goya, was created between 1819-1823 in Museo del Prado, Madrid. It is 4 ft 9 in x 2 ft 8 in and is an oil mural transferred to canvas. It features Saturn, the Roman god of agriculture, liberation, and time, as a giant with long greying hair. In his large hands he is devouring his son, who is missing his head and parts of his limbs. The son is dripping with blood, while Saturn has bulging eyes. The colors consist mostly of greys, browns, and blacks; however, there is red
“Guernica” and “Liberty Leading the People” are two very different oil paintings illustrated in very different circumstances. “Guernica,” painted by Pablo Picasso, depicts the devastation caused at the bombing of Guernica by German troops in 1937. “Liberty Leading the People,” painted by Eugene Delacroix, depicts the French Revolution, more specifically the Revolution of 1830. Despite these stark differences, the paintings hold striking similarities. Both “Guernica” and “Liberty Leading the People”
the military rigid social stratification which is now looting Spain into an ocean of misery and death." (Pablo Picasso). Pablo Picasso's mural, "Guernica" (1937), is hard to arrange into one modern art division within a system of classification, because it seems to be both a movement of its own classification, and also including more than one modern movements occurring at the same time. Picasso append his own unique explanation of each modern art movement to Guernica in accordance with older effect
The (joy of life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon can be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne’s, because the joy of life It is a large-scale painting that has a brilliant colored forest which has been depicting an Arcadian landscape filled with, meadow, sea, and sky and populated by nude figures both at rest and in motion while Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon has sensual eroticism with these kinds of aggressively crude pornography that has a landscape