Sunday, 5 September 2010
London Continued
Photographed outside of Liberty's..Fantastic window displays from various designers.
2010: My rediscovery of Picasso During my second year I rediscovered Pablo Picasso 3
Pablo Picasso (1905-1906)
Oil on canvas
99.6 x 81.3 cm.
Portrait of Gertrude Stein
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Portrait of Gertrude Stein
The portrait of Gertrude Stein a friend of Henri Mattisse was painted after Picasso had attended an exhibition at the Louvre in 1906 on Iberian sculpture…Iberia is the ancient name of Spain this was the period where Picasso’s style radically changed…like Matisse who became fascinated in the primitive form…which was described as ‘a lyrical manner of suggesting movement, it was Picasso who tried to ‘imprint on the face a sculptural intensity close to that of a mask’. According to Cezanne the inspiration for Picasso’s transformation into Cubism he was quoted in saying ‘all pre existing criteria of illustration or feeling have to be dissolved and converted into plastic energy’
From Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein which presented a sculptural element to his style influenced by Iberian sculpture…this iconic painting was a way of treating space and of expressing emotion…therefore this has become one of the most significant painting’s of the 20th century…(Emma Selina, 2007) stated that ‘It has long been acknowledged that Picasso derived considerable inspiration from so called “primitive” cultures. Numerous art historians have enumerated examples on this idea, citing the art of Ancient Egypt, Tahiti, and Africa as influences. The ancient art from Picasso’s propio país, or homeland, was no exception. In an interview with Christian Zevros in 1939 Picasso stated that the attribution of his forms to African art in Demoiselles d’Avignon was incorrect and that the real inspiration had come from Iberian sculpture’.
Emma Selina (2007 ) Picasso in Dimension: Born of an Ancient Synthesis
Available at: emmatipping.blogspot.com/
(Accessed: 5th September 2010)
2010: My rediscovery of Picasso During my second year I rediscovered Pablo Picasso 2
Picasso was also influenced by Cezanne. He begun to cut up his figures into geometric shapes, cones, spheres, cylinders and in clearly defined planes just like Cezanne used to do. In the painting, Picasso over highlighted the cutting up of the shapes with brightly colored lines that remind tribal scars on the faces of some African tribesmen. Indeed, the figures’ shapes in Picasso’s painting show the influence of three major styles: on the left, the flattening of the woman’s torso reminds Egyptian art; the noses of the two central figures are seen in profile whereas the rest of the facial characteristics are face on, something which reminds Iberian art and finally, the features of the woman in the right are reminiscent of masks of the Negro art.
Picasso, P. (1906) Les Demoiselles d’Avignon [Oil on canvas] Museum of Modern Art online [Online]. Available at: http://www.moma.org (Accessed: 14th February 2010).
2010: My rediscovery of Picasso During my second year I rediscovered Pablo Picasso
Cubism was a highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by the painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The Cubist style emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honoured theories of art as the imitation of nature. Cubist painters were not bound to copying form, texture, colour, and space; instead, they presented a new reality in paintings that depicted radically fragmented objects, whose
several sides were seen simultaneously.
The Art History Archive - Art Movements (2010) Cubism.
Available at: http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/cubism/
(Accessed: 4 September 2010).
Spain Guides (2010) Picasso.
Available at:http://spainguides.com/bestofspain.html
(Accessed a: 5 September 2010).
Saturday, 4 September 2010
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