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Tom Phan

Mr. Frampton
Exploring Art
Jan 7, 2017

Famous Artist Exploration


For my final project, I choose Pablo Picasso as the artist Im going to explore and
research about as well as be basing of on as I
try to create an original art piece using his
artistic style. The reason why I chose him
because I was looking through other famous
piece of art works and know that I didnt want
to do anything realistic. So I turn to abstract
and Picasso were one of the first people I thought of to look. A lot of his abstract works
are really interesting especially the ones that established cubism. Those were the ones
that struck me the most so it was decided that I would use those as inspirations and be
basing of on for my final piece.
Born in Malaga, Spain, 1881, Picasso was considered one of the most influential
artist of the 20th century. His devotion in life to make artistic creations contributed
significantly to the development of modern art. In his early childhood, Picasso show a
prodigious talent at drawing at a very young age despite being a relatively poor
students. His father then began teaching him to draw and paint and by the time he was
thirteen, his skill level has surpassed his father. At age fourteen, he moved to Barcelona
with his family in 1895. There, he quickly applied for the prestigious School of Fine Art.

Nonetheless, he was annoyed with the school strict rules and formalities, and began
skipping class to roam the streets of the city, sketching the sceneries as he observed
them. At sixteen, Picasso moved to Madrid to attend the Royal Academy of San
Fernando. However, he again became frustrated with his school's singular focus on
classical subjects and techniques and continue to wander the city and paint what he
observed. In 1899, Picasso moved back to Barcelona and fell in with a crowd of artists
and intellectuals. Inspire by the people, he decided to break from the classical method
from which he had been trained and began what would later become a lifelong process
of experimentation and innovation.
Picassos next stage in life would later be divided into three periods. At the
turn of the twentieth century, he moved to Paris to open his own studio. From 1901 to
1904, art historians and critics had called this moment during
Picassos lifetime as his Blue Period based on the color that
dominated in almost all of his paintings over these years.
Lonely and deeply depressed over the death of his close
friend, Carlos Casagemas, Picasso depicted scenes of
poverty, isolation, and anguish exclusively in shades of blue
and green. Some famous paintings from his Blue Period
include "Blue Nude," "La Vie" and "The Old Guitarist".
By 1905 Picasso had largely overcome the depression that previously weakens
him. He was now madly in love with a beautiful model, Fernande Olivier, and was
prosperous thanks to the generous patronage of art dealer, Ambroise Vollard. In what is
know as Picassos Rose Period, his now improved and lifted spirits were artistically

demonstrated in some of his other paintings which would include famous works like
"Family at Saltimbanques", "Gertrude Stein", and "Woman of
Majorca".
In 1907, Picasso produced paintings unlike anything he
or anyone else had done before, a work that would profoundly
influence the direction of art in the 20th century. Abstracted and
distorted with sharp geometric features and striking blotches of
blues, greens and gray, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" is
considered today the precursor and inspiration of Cubism, an
artistic style developed by Picasso and his friend and fellow painter, Georges Braque.
The style involved breaking apart objects and rearranging them in an abstract form,
highlighting their geometric shapes and depicting them from
multiple, occurring viewpoints in order to create this physicsdefying, collage-like effects. At once, Cubism shocked,
appalled, and fascinated the artistic world. Picasso's early
Cubist paintings include "Three Women", "Bread and Fruit
Dish on a Table", and "Girl with Mandolin". His later Cubist
work, known as synthetic cubism, moved even further away
from typical artistic style and involved creating vast college out
of different fragments of shape. Works included "Still Life with Chair Caning", "Card
Player, and "Three Musicians".

Picasso had also explored other different


artistic style throughout his life. The outbreak of World
War I once again made him more somber and in this,
he returned to realism and became concerned with
depiction of reality. Some of his work in his Classical
Period include Three Woman at the Spring, The
Race, and Pipes of Pan. Continue
from 1907, he began to caught up in
surrealism, a new and cultural
movement that was established from
the creation of cubism. One of his
most famous surrealist paintings was Guernica, a depiction of German bombers
supporting by Nationalist forces to carry out a devastating aerial attack on the Basque
town of Guernica in 1937. Picasso, outraged by the event, painted what is considered
today as one of the greatest paintings of all time. A definition of the horror of war, it
remains to be the most moving and powerful anti-war paintings in history.
At this point in his life, Picasso was an international celebrity and the world's
most famous living artist. In contrast to the complexity of his synthetic cubism, his later
work displayed childlike imagery and crude technique. Touching upon these subjects,
Picasso remarked passing upon a group of school kids in his old age, "When I was as
old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw
like them."

Inarguably one of the most influential and celebrated artist of the 20th century,
Picasso continue to pursuit his career in the work of art, superstitiously believed that it
would keep him alive. He died on April 8, 1973, at the age of 91. His legacy, however,
will live continue to live on. Picassos contributions and dedications to the art world had
strongly impacted and influenced it even to today. Noted for his technical mastery,
visionary innovation, and profound empathy, it is no surprised that he is universally
considered a revolutionary artist.
For the process of my piece, I decided to do an original work base off on
Picassos cubist paintings. Those that helped me through the process include Ma Jolie,
The Accordionist, and The Aficionado. All of those pieces involved the arrangement of
different shapes and fragments to create this collage-like effects that is both interesting

and aesthetically pleasing, so that was my main goals as I tried to incorporate it into my
drawing. Cubism also involved breaking object or structure apart and putting them back
together in an abstract form, so that main premise for my piece was this towering

curving tower upon a night sky depicted in a cubistic and abstract ways. I also noticed
that he highlighted some of the shape with dark lines to make them stand out so I tried
to accomplish that it my work as well. For the mediums I used oil pastel because I
wanted something that would have similar effects to Picassos paintings. I also tried to
established different shades of colors as he did in his.

Resources
www.pablopicasso.org/
www.biography.com/people/pablo-picasso-9440021
www.theartstory.org/artist-picasso-pablo.htm
https://www.britannica.com/biography/ Pablo-Picasso

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