Overview Pablo Picasso was the greatest and most significant artist in the beginning of the twentieth century. Best known as the father of Cubism‚ Picasso also made important contributions to Surrealism and Symbolism and he was the inventor of collage. Although he primarily saw himself as a painter‚ Picasso ’s sculpture work was highly significant‚ in addition he explored printmaking and ceramics. Pablo had a charismatic personality and was involved in many relationships with women which directed
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STUDENT STUDY SECTION Review questions Study the timeline above and then read the following quotation. The nation that political problems could more naturally be solved by violence than by debate was firmly entrenched in a country in which for a thousand years civil war has been if not exactly the norm then certainly no rarity. From Paul Preton‚ The Spanish Civil War: Reaction‚ Revolution and Revenge‚ 2006 1. Looking at the timeline above showing events in Spain in the 19th and early 20th
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20th-century art. Picasso is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and also for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous paintings are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937)‚ his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War (PabloPicasso.org‚ 2009). No painter had been as famous as Picasso leading up to the 20th century. To say that he is one of the best that ever lived is an understatement. During the early parts
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Outraged by this massacre in his home country he chose to take a political stance and painted Guernica‚ another perfect example of his cubism as well as surrealism. The contrast in colors‚ the light on dark‚ gives the piece a very dismal disposition. The content of the piece just shows how horrific the bombings were. The dismembered bodies along with
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20th Century Arts and Artist Paper The subject of this course is an exploration of the ideas and values from the Scientific Revolution to the Second World War‚ examining the various revolutions in the world (scientific‚ political‚ economic‚ social‚ spiritual and artistic) and their impact on philosophy‚ theology‚ literature and the arts. This course so far has allowed me to see the influence of the Western thinking‚ forms of thinking and ideas on non-Western cultures and vice versa. As an accomplishment
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On April 26 Hitler’s Condor Legions firebombed the ancient Basque town of Guernica‚ a place of no military importance‚ and reduced it to rubble. It was the single most telling indication of fascist ruthlessness toward civilians to date‚ a lesson residents of cities in Europe and England would themselves learn in time. It led Picasso to produce his massive painting "Guernica‚" perhaps the most famous work of graphic art to come out of the war. Meanwhile‚ the Spanish government
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“Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?” By Jean-François Lyotard‚ trans. Régis Durand. NOTE: Written in 1982‚ as postscript to The Postmodern Condition (1979) A Demand This is a “period of slackening” in the “color of the times”. “From every direction we are being urged to put an end to experimentation‚ in the arts and elsewhere”. Bauhaus (1919-1933 Germany: Walter Gropius founded this movement of artists‚ writers‚ architects. Shut down by Hitler for being very radical‚ left-wing)
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reference to Guernica and the tension and growing turmoil in Spain. This allusion‚ juxtaposed to the uneasy peace in America at the time‚ establishes the tense atmosphere that the play is constructed around. The Americans of the thirties lived in relative peace after recovering from World War One and already experiencing the worst of the Great Depression. However‚ the audience of the time would see the thirties as the calm before the storm of World War Two. This allusion the bombing of Guernica by the
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to see outside the ordinary. Mencken states‚ “It is almost impossible to find any trace of an artist who was not actively hostile to his environment”—exemplifying that all artists are against society. This is shown true through Picasso’s painting "Guernica‚" Donald Justice’s poem "Death in the Rose Garden‚" and E.B. White’s essay "About Myself"‚ which all demonstrate the artist’s rebellion against environment or contemporary standards. In Picasso’s painting he created a tremendous distaste towards
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dominated Western art in the 20th century. He acquired the skill of drawing and painting at a very young age. He did many art works like oil painting‚ sculpturing‚ drawing and architecture. His artwork include paintings like “The old guitarist‚ The Guernica‚ Girl before mirror‚ The dream‚ Three musicians and Boy with pipe”. Of all his artworks the most famous artwork was the ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’. This painting was done in Paris in the summer of 1907 and it was referred as the most innovative
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