Pablo picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and member of the French Communist Party. He is the founder of modern art and the main representative of Western modernist painting. Picasso was the most creative and far-reaching artist in the contemporary West, the greatest artistic genius of the 20th century.
Avignon Maiden
The Maiden of Avignon was the first work with Cubist tendencies, and in 1907 Picasso worked on a monumental work that summed up his experience and marked the beginning of his future activities in a modernist direction. This work is The Girl of Avignon. The Spanish painter's focus was not on color, as in Fauvism, but on the body, and he used a flexible and layered decomposition, powerful, broad and generalized flat shape to combine the structure of the body as he pleased
The Maiden of Avignon, 1907, Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Maiden of Avignon completely negates the traditional painting of the Renaissance with the three-dimensional space as its main purpose. Picasso categorically abandoned the true depiction of the human body and assembled the entire human body using various geometric planes, which at that time was a blasphemy of mankind against God. At the same time, it abolishes the French spatial representation near and far, abandons the profound sense of the picture, and transforms the sense of quantity or three-dimensional elements into flatness. This painting, influenced by Cézanne, is both a clear reflection of the achievements of black sculpture art. The purpose of strengthening the deformation is also to increase the attractiveness. Picasso said: "I have crooked the nose, and in the final analysis, I want to force people to pay attention to the nose. "In terms of subject matter, the painting depicts neither a goddess nor a model in the studio, but a prostitute on The Street of Avignon in Barcelona, through whom the artist embodies themes of sex, the instinct for life, the threat of death and primitivism;
Culturally, the painting represents the contest between Africa and Europe, primitive and civilization.
Due to the innovation of the Avignon Girl in visual reproduction, it is regarded as the beginning of modernist art.
The Girl's Dream
The first batch of more than 150 pieces of intangible cultural traditional embroidery art in China were unveiled in Guangzhou
Dreams, 1932
The heroine of the painting is Marie Teresa, the object of Picasso's admiration, and Picasso wrote to her in her old age that "meeting you is the beginning of my life." The red chair represented Picasso's love and surrounded the girls. The girl is intoxicated by the dream of love. The girl's chest shows a half-hidden green, and the waves and water lines on the clothes are the beauty of the horizontal flow of the picture. The six fingers of the hand are Picasso's habit of playing mystery, leaving suspense for the viewer to guess.
This painting is the best representation of Picasso's spiritual and physical love and is one of the important works of Picasso's mid-period. During this period, he liked to use bright, contrasting colors. The work is the product of the separation of the image of the woman depicted by Picasso's graphicism and the neoclassical style, and the free combination of lines and colors is a masterpiece. The difference between modern painting and classical painting is that modern painting has a free combination of lines and colors. When watching abstract paintings, in addition to appreciating the lines and color blocks of the painting content, you should use your imagination space and freedom of thought more.
Picasso painting
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《Sing-in Self-Portrait》
▲ Self-portraits of different periods ▲
Artistic history
1. Gloomy transition period
Picasso was influenced by the suicide of his friend on a lonely trip in Spain, and the artistic creations of the period were dominated by cool colors, such as blue and blue-green tones. During this time, the color is dark, and sometimes the subject is poor and miserable. Representative works include "Life", "A Frugal Meal", "Blind Man's Dinner", "Celestina" and so on.
The Blind Man's Supper, 1903
2. Pink period
In Paris, because under the nourishment of love, Picasso used cheerful, bright, pleasant, bright and pink color emotions to express in a large area, and the sweetness in the transition of love, his creative theme was often based on circuses and acrobatic performers, depicting the living conditions of such people. His representative works include "The Boy with the Pipe" and "Portrait of Stein".
The Boy with the Pipe
Created in 1905
One of Picasso's masterpieces
Melancholy aesthetic work
3. The Cubist period
This is the most brilliant moment in his creative career, in the process of his painting creation, he often adopts flexible, layered, spatial modeling of the sense of flat modeling, the structure of the body is organized as desired.
Abandoning the traditional painting style, there is no plot and no environmental description in the painting, and the use of extremely exaggerated techniques to express the deformed capitalist society and distort the relationship between people, representative works include "The Avignon Girl" and "Fernand's Head".
Fernand's Head
4. The period of metamorphosis
The painting style of this period is mainly biased towards the original art field, using the artistic expression technique of concise image, which makes Picasso's painting style in this period turn into a realistic form of expression.
In 1930, his painting style turned to surrealism, showing real life between dream and reality. The painting style is extremely abstract, showing pain and animal nature, and his representative works include "The Woman in the Red Armchair" and "Guernica".
Pablo Picasso's Guernica
5. Pastoral period
The painting style is rough and harmonious and unified, and the use of techniques is extremely skillful, and the representative works include "Carmen" and series.
The Death of a Horseman
Bullfighting
Still Life with a Rattan Chair, 1912 collage, a comprehensive Cubist work
▼ Sketches by 12 years old
▼ Picasso's brilliant life
Picasso was a true genius.
At the beginning of this changeable century, he came from Spain to Paris, the art capital of the world at that time, and began his journey of discovery of the glorious art of his life. In the 20th century, no artist could be as versatile and well-known as Picasso. Picasso's fame is not only due to his early fame and masterpieces such as "The Maiden of Avignon" and "Guernica", but also because of his abundant creativity and colorful life, he left a large number of multi-faceted works of art.
Picasso's completed works count as many as 60,000 to 80,000 pieces, in addition to paintings and drawings, but also include sculptures, pottery, prints, stage costumes and other modeling performances. After Picasso's death in 1973, the world's major art museums continued to present retrospectives of his various natures, and the topic of Picasso continued, often with new arguments, as if he were still alive in the world.
The painting combines Cubist, realist, and surrealist styles to express pain, suffering, and animality: on the right, a woman falls from the house on fire with her hand raised, and another woman rushes to the center of the painting; on the left is the body of a warrior with a sword in one hand, next to a growing flower; in the center of the painting is an old horse, a spear from top to bottom, and on the left is a cow standing with its head raised, and between the head of the bull and the horse's head is a bird with its beaked On the upper right side there is an arm that extends obliquely from the window, holding a lamp in his hand, emitting a strong light that illuminates this bloody scene. The whole painting is painted in black, white and gray. The painting depicts the tragic situation of the Spanish town of Guernica after being bombed by German aircraft.
In the middle of the picture, a warrior lying on the ground holds a short sword in his hand, and a wounded horse turns around in fright and tramples on him. On the right, three women are surviving from a house on fire, and on the left, a woman clutching a dead child and wailing to the sky, above her, a minotaur is coldly observing all this, as if the cow star monster in the legend of ancient Crete, its only thing in common with people is a flat face and a pair of eyes. According to Picasso, it represents "cruelty and darkness", alluding to the Spanish dictator Franco, who was teamed up by Hitler and Mussolini.
Picasso:
I was 13 years old and could paint as well as Raphael.
But I painted all my life to look like a child.