Picasso - Cubism

 

Picasso Cubism and Guernica

Just like Impressionism would be considered a major change in the art world, shortly after the Post Impressionist, Cubism was the movement and Picasso was the artist.

Revolutionary works by Picasso like Des Demoiselles d'Avignon changed the face of art forever. Picasso took influence from the ancient Iberian sculptures rumored to have been stolen from the Louver at this time to help to create the new look of Cubism in this great work Des Demoiselles d'Avignon

La Guernica shown below is also one of the most important works of Picasso's life His only political statment depicting the destruction of war on the small town of Guernica.

Woman with Book Buy From Art.com Le Sculpture, 1931 Buy From Art.com Guernica, 1937 Buy From Art.com The Doves, 1957 (Detail) Buy From Art.com The Old Guitarist, 1903 Buy From Art.com Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Buy From Art.com The Doves, 1957 Buy From Art.com Family of Saltimbanques Buy From Art.com   Picasso, the Spanish born artist, had moved from Spain to Paris. His first time to Paris, his best friend killed himself. After this, Picasso did his brilliant, pivotal works, entitled: The Blue Period and The Rose Period.   Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937 Buy From Art.com Les Pigeons Buy From Art.com L'amitie, 1907\08 Buy From Art.com Blue Boy Buy From Art.com Three Musicians Buy From Art.com Dove of Peace Buy From Art.com Acrobat, 1930 Buy From Art.com Face - Dove Buy From Art.com

Picasso Picasso’s Father, in Pablo’s youth, was an art teacher. Around 8 years of age, Picasso painted a realistic oil painting of both of his parents, and a piece called Science & Charity. Around 15, Picasso’s father gave up painting and told his son, “You are the artist, now”. Picasso’s talent was huge, and he knew it. He had a very large ego. Picasso was extremely intelligent, funny, and generally entertaining, and considered to be very handsome and charming. He was also a player, he had many women. And in his later years, they were usually much younger. It is also rumored, that in his early years, that Picasso hung out with a gang, and used to shoot a gun in the air that he would carry probably just for fun. The piece we spoke of earlier, Des Demoiselles d'Avignon, was so pivotal, it was a complete change to the face of art forever. This new style of cubism gave Picasso the freedom to use any subject from scraps of paper and wood, and create something magnificent. This new style of Cubism allowed Picasso to break his world up into fragments, opening the world for many styles like Abstractionism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Enjoy the works as well as the beauty that Picasso has bestowed upon us.   Picasso Les Demoiselles de Avigon***   Arguably the most important work of the entire twentieth century, this work was considered the stepping piece for a whole revolution for art to come, but if you look at the difference between Cubism and the Impressionists before, instead of a step, it looks more like taking a dive off a 12 story building into a nice swimming pool.   The world was changing quickly, the industrial revolution, which the Impressionists tried to depict.   Impressionists   The Impressionists had a technology shift, this came from items like: The Camera The invention of the paint tube over using animal bladders to store paint The Trains The Train companies actually gave free tickets to beautiful rural areas in France to artists so they could use the artwork to promote trains.   Famous impressionists would drink champagne with a meal, for free, on the way to paint the gorgeous landscape of rural France and Europe. Imagine, attempting this without easy, moveable paint tubes and a train to take you there in style. The reason the invention of the camera was so important to create the change from Realism to Impressionism was that now; you could just take a picture, so why paint something realistically? There is a story of the Impressionists, before Impressionism. In this story, they say, the painters would take their spare paints from their palettes and smear it onto a local wall. After many painters had dabbed down all these different colors and palettes, the wall started to come to life and look like something. The painters looked at this and thought, take a look at the effect of what happens when you place dabs of color close to each other and step back, it becomes a whole new world, a world which led the Impressionists to the outskirts of small rural, southern France to paint their brilliant work.   The difference in the world for the Impressionists in the Pre-Raphaelites, before, was so drastic. Imagine the difference in the world of Picasso, a young, brilliant artist in the center of the art world just before World War I. The difference between this new cubism, like Des Mademoiselles de Aviginon, was night and day, like the change the Impressionists made with their pre-modern art. Pablo Picasso, when creating this great work, where Picasso, was in a world that was shifting on its axis and flipping upside down at the same time. Think of some of the things in this new time that Picasso had to deal with. For the first time, man could see the world from a different point-of-view. This industrial revolution was no longer a small baby. The tanks, planes and helicopters that Leonardo Da Vinci had drawn a hundred years before had come to life. Imagine being alive at the time when it was impossible for man to fly, man and woman. So now picture yourself, thousands of feet in the air, looking down on fields below that may be miles but now look like inches. In essence, this new view, is a Cubist one. Considering this piece, Les Demoiselles De Avignon, Picasso mixed a figurative scene of the ladies of the brother in Barcelona with African masks mixed with ancient Iberian sculpture from Picasso’s heritage, to create this beautiful, ugly, crazy, different, modern piece.   Shortly after, Picasso’s works took a sort of collage direction, where he would mix painting bits of paper and newspaper, chair caning, and wood or other materials pasted on to the canvas. The attempt to keep realism within any sort of lines was far over. Art can be like a mirror of the world. Picasso’s mirror was mirroring the world so different than before. Like when Dali splits an atom in one of his paintings, it represents the same monumental shift that Picasso had made when he had broken the art world open in much the same way Dali would break an atom into a pomegranate breaking up. The change from these art periods, from Impressionism to Cubism to Surrealism were like parachuting through rainbows on mushroom tea with Jerry Garcia. Search:

 

 

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