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PABLO PICASSO 1881-1974 ("La Grande Dryade" 1907 (Not…
PABLO PICASSO 1881-1974
"Moulin Rouge" 1901
"The Blue Room" 1901
Reduced colour palette
Paul Cezanne
Ingres
Toulouse Lautrec
Degas
Moving from one artist to another before him
Trying to find his own style
Wanted to make a name for himself
Child prodigy - age of 12, painted a portrait better than his father (an art teacher), so his father quitted art after that
"La Vie" 1903
blue period
Blue palette
Painted realistically
Colour palette not realistic
"The Circus Family" 1905
pink period
Subject matter - no narrative
Classically painted
"The Joy of Life" by Matisse
Controversial
Lots of nudity but didn't represent religion or mythology
Picasso felt competitive towards Matisse
"Les Démoiselles D'Avignon" 1906-07
Painting counter to "The Joy of Life"
Simplifying forms but also distorting them
The beauty is not based on classical Greek beauty
All shapes are inconsistent
Group of prostitutes hanging around an area where prostitutes go to
Harshly shaped
"L'estaque" 1908
Reduced everything into basic shapes
It's like looking at a bunch of cubes
"La Grande Dryade" 1907
Not classically per-portioned
Inverted feet
Lack of curves
Carved shapes
"Hazily" painted
INCONSISTENT
Many shadows but also ambiguously painted
WORKING TOWARDS CUBISM
Playful but not beautiful
REJECTING THE NOTION THAT ART HAS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
"Landscape at
Horta Da Ebro
" 1909
Early cubism
Ambiguous background
Light source coming from multiple areas
Continuous surface
"Ambroise Vollard" 1910
Analytic cubism
Breaking down into its fragments
Looks like shattered glass
Reduced colour pallette
Horizontal brush strokes
2d shapes are going from one to another
Less depth
"Ma Jolie" 1914
Text incorporated into art
Painted to look like a collage
Imitating collage with paint
Instruments painted
Insized line
Didn't want to go into abstraction so he went back to representational art
"Still Life with Chair Caning" 1912
Printed pattern
Letters "JOU" for journal
Odd robe, oval frame
There's a knife, citrus fruit, plate
Reduced colour palette
Neutral
"Bird's eye view" perspective
Synthetic cubism
"Three dancers" 1925
Emphasis on texture and colour
Late cubism
"Girl in the Mirror" 1932
"Guernica" 1937
Hitler bombed Guernica and this was Picasso's response to it
Wasn't obvious but was clear on message
