PABLO PICASSO

 



 Weeping Woman 1937

 

SUBJECT MATTER

The subject matter is cubism, the feeling and emotion it convoy is sadness since the painting is called the weeping woman it obviously a woman who is weeping or crying. The painting has a lot if different shapes such as triangles circles rectangles diamond shapes.

 

TECHNIQES

The art work is painted, I think Picasso used medium or small brushes because you can see a lot of shapes and angles small brushes and help paint edges. The consistency of the paint is thick. The artwork creates an illusion that some forms are further away, the painting looks 3D the use of colour is exaggerated. The texture seems to me rough, the composition you can see so many dramatic angles.

ARTIST CAREER

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Picasso 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973 was a Spanish painter, sculptor printmaker ceramicist  stage designer poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement the invention of constructed sculpture.

 

WAR

During the Second World War Picasso remained in Paris while the Germans occupied the city. Picasso's artistic style did not fit the Nazi ideal of art, so he did not exhibit during this time. He was often harassed by the Gestapo. During one search of his apartment, an officer saw a photograph of the painting Guernica. "Did you do that?" the German asked Picasso. "No," he replied, "You did".

 

Pablo Picasso died on 8 April 1973 in Mougins, France

 

 

 

CUBISM

CUBISM

 

 

 

Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881–1973 and Georges Braque French, 1882–1963 in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term Cubism after seeing the landscapes Braque had painted in 1908 at L'Estaque in emulation of Cézanne. Vauxcelles called the geometric forms in the highly abstracted works cubes.Other influences on early Cubism have been linked to Primitivism and non-Western sources.

 

 

 

VINCENT VAN GOGH

VINCENT VAN GOGH

 

                                                                           

 SUBJECT MATTER

The subject matter of the artwork is self portrait
in the painting he looks very serious the feeling and emotion it convoy is sadness or melancholy you can see he is not smiling or laughing neither he is angry but he look sad or tired.

TECHINIQUE

The art work was painted with thick brush marks you can see the painting has very strong brush marks, I think Van Gogh used big brushes the marks were carefully applied.
The consistency of the paint is thick. The painting creates an illusion that some forms are further away you can see his face body looks 3D.
the use of colour does closely resemble the colours of the actual subject.
the tonal range of the painting goes from dark areas to light areas you can see around the head there is dark blue it becomes a lighter blue tint.
the texture to me seems rough.
ARTISTS CAREER

Vincent Willem van Gogh 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890 was a post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold colour had a far reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness he died aged 37 from a gunshot wound generally accepted to be self inflicted although no gun was ever found  His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still.


He said of portrait studies "The only thing in painting that excites me to the depths of my soul, and which makes me feel the infinite more than anything else."

To his sister he wrote "I should like to paint portraits which appear after a century to people living then as apparitions. By which I mean that I do not endeavour to achieve this through photographic resemblance, but my means of our impassioned emotions – that is to say using our knowledge and our modern taste for colour as a means of arriving at the expression and the intensification of the character."