Compare And Contrast Pablo Picasso And Las Meninas

Many reviews and analysis reference psychoanalytic theory as a base to establish definitive meaning of why certain things occur and how they function. Ruthe Stein of San Francisco Gate makes brief yet notable comparisons of Del Toro’s film to Picasso’s Guernica. Picasso’s famous painting named after the city of Guernica that was destroyed in 1937 by Francisco Franco, was a “sacred town of the Basques”. (Russell 1). Frank Russell’s notes in his book Picasso’s “Guernica: The Labyrinth of Narrative and Vision”, how the Basques lived in the mountains and they were “adept at guerilla tactics” (1). Similar, to the rebellions in Del Toro’s Labyrinth that lived within the mountains and forest. Notably, the initial credits of the film stated that the

Alvaro was the one that was quiet and would copy other people's paintings instead of making some kind of original and unique art. Cristobal was the troublemaker that would steal things from Mr.Velazquez and blame it on Juan. Mr.Velasquez knew that it was not Juan’s fault and he threatened to send cristobal away if he did it again. But, he did it again and Mr.Velasquez did not do anything because Cristobal was a good drawer and painter and was much better than Alvaro. There was a request by the King for Diego Velasquez to paint a portrait of him.

The painting was created by an artist, Cristobal de Villalpando, during the late 1600s. The artwork was made by oil on canvas in Mexico. The frame of the painting is 81 1/8 inches high and 55 7/8 inches wide. The painting is of Virgin Mary praying and angels surrounding her at the bottom of her feet. The title, The Immaculate Conception, has a deep meaning to the painting. The word immaculate means cleanliness or unsullied. The artist illustrated Virgin Mary as a sinless woman because of God’s grace even though she conceived Jesus Christ normally.

I say this because I said that Picasso’s had the woman making the girl big. In Velazquez’s the girl has the women also making her the center point. She couldn’t be though if the she didn’t have the women helping her and “making” her. I say this because she looks like she has a lot of things going on just sitting down and she couldn’t do everything by herself so to look good she needs the helpers or women. This is why I think that these two paintings look similar in this topic and also could look different.Contrasting:The second thing that I think is different about these two paintings is that the girl in Picasso’s painting is living in poverty and she looks pretty when she is cleaned up. In Velazquez’s the girl is living a lush life and has servants doing her work and she is just a young girl. The reason I say this is because since Velazquez was the king’s painter he only painted things that looked expensive for the king and his family to see. In Picasso’s case he was just a really good painter and he painted things that everybody who had practically nothing could

He wanted to make the painting his own way. Picasso had his own point of view on las meninas by just painting the princess and the attendants. I think he decided to paint just the princess and attendants because he wanted to show the difference between the two. The princess is highly praised while the attendants don’t get noticed. The attendants are always longing in the princesses shadow, just like how in the painting the attendant is kneeling down to the princess, supposedly helping her get ready.I think Velazquez created such a work because he was trying to put his own life experiences into something. I think he was trying to express two different groups of people.In the painting there is the royal princess and her attendants. There is other people in the painting that people are less focused on. When you look at the painting there is people gathered around

Later he ended up revisiting Spain and he could see the division of the country. Spain was divided into two sides. One side is the New Spain, a country with thriving socialist movements. On the other side was Ancient Spain, a country suffocated by the heavy presence of the Catholic Church and poverty. Picasso called the Ancient Spain the Black Spain. These two sides wanted each other gone and were very conflicted. In the year 1935 Spain experienced an awful time and during this time Picasso started to change his art style. One of his most significant paintings where he started changing his style is the “Minotauromachy.” This piece is very sexual, but scriptural at the same time and almost disturbing in a way. Around this time many changes started happening in Picasso’s life, his wife was pregnant and he took a political side with the

Las Meninas was Velázquez’s largest oeuvre measuring 3.21 m by 2.81 m (Umberger 96). Velázquez’s masterpiece is one that draws sharp criticism ranging from those who find this work as a complete piece with its pictorial features prominent in the artwork, to those who find it hard to interpret its content conclusively (Ancell 159-160; Snyder 542+; Steinberg 48; Bongiorni 88). Despite such disparities, Velázquez’s masterpiece was able to project a day in the life of the royal family while at the same time achieving his artistic ideal. This work explores this artwork in light of the royal family and personal gratification by Velázquez as a celebrated artist.

Las Meninas - Valázquez and Picasso “Las Meninas” is a famous painting created by Diego Valázquez in 1656 (left). Diego Valázquez’s “Las Meninas” has inspired artists to make several renditions, admiring it. Pablo Picasso, in particular, has made over 50 renditions of “Las Meninas”. Pablo Picasso’s rendition shown at the top of the page (right) is only one of his recreations of “Las Meninas”, made in 1957 . There are many similarities and differences between both the original and Pablo Picasso’s rendition of “Las Meninas”, as well as several reasons why they made the paintings and what the artists were trying to portray.Diego Valázquez’s “Las Meninas” and Pablo Picasso’s rendition of it are similar in several ways. First, both paintings share some of the same objects. The princess, infantana margarita, is in the center of both paintings. Secondly, there is a maid of honor (a royal servant) kneeling to the left side of the princess in both paintings. Thirdly, both of the paintings also have the same focus. The focus of the paintings is the princess and her maids of honor. In Diego Valázquez’s painting, the princess and her maids of honor are towards the front and in the center, and the same is made apparent in Pablo Picasso’s rendition. Finally, you can see the building in which the paintings are taken place in both of them. It is very obvious in Diego Valázquez’s painting, put a little less so in Pablo Picasso’s painting. There is a difference in color from brown to black towards the bottom of Pablo Picasso’s painting. Since the floor in Diego Valázquez’s painting is clearly and brightly shown as brown but the walls are darker, the same is shown in Pablo Picasso’s rendition.Diego Valázquez’s “Las Meninas” and Pablo Picasso’s rendition of it are also different in several ways. Firstly, Valázquez is not shown in both paintings. In Diego

Las Meninas EssayAs Pablo Picasso once said “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Maybe this is why one of the greatest artists of all time “stole” a piece of art by another one of the greatest artists of all time. Diego Velazquez painted Las Meninas and Pablo Picasso created over 50 renditions of the painting. There are so many similarities even though the style is different, and there are many differences too. Even though both artists use different styles and have different ways of portraying their art, there are still many similarities. In Velazquez's painting, we can see the ladies in waiting getting the princess ready. We can see the ladies in waiting preparing the princess in Picasso’s rendition as

Spanish artist Pablo Picasso can often be collectively seen as the greatest and most influential artist of the twentieth century. In a historical sense he encompassed all that is to be a practicing modernist artist and prevailed as one of the most significant artists overall in human history. Picasso’s most well renowned painting presents to his audience a graphic reflection of the horrors and brutality of war; Guernica (1937) depicts the Spanish town of the same name being torn apart by the explosive fury that was the German air raid on the innocent and unaware village during the Spanish Civil War. The painting is currently housed in the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid yet also has a reputable

Famous painters named Velazquez and Picasso both painted pictures of a princess and her maid/maids. The painting was called Las Meninas. Velazquez painted for King Philip IV. He painted his Las Meninas in 1656. He was considered a realism painter. Picasso began painting the first of his 58 Las Meninas in 1957. Picasso used his own technique called cubism to paint.

The painting style in Spain during the 18th century had a large influence on Latin America’s. The painting style during this century was realistic and the figures portrayed closely resembled their actual appearance in the world. During the Aztec empire, it was hard to distinguish human figures out of the statues they created. In these paintings, everything is portrayed the way it is. The painting style in Figure 1 is exactly the type of paintings the Spanish were doing. Cabrera did a painting of Doña Maria de la Padilla (Figure 7), and this painting closely resembles the Spanish painter Amigoni’s painting of Maria Antonia (Figure 6). Both paintings are using relatively the same color pallet, and the females in the paintings look alike. Even

     Diego Velàzquez was called the “noblest and most commanding man among the artists of his country.” He was a master realist, and no painter has surpassed him in the ability to seize essential features and fix them on canvas with a few broad, sure strokes. “His men and women seem to breathe,” it has been said; “his horses are full of action and his dogs of life.” Because of Velàzquez’ great skill in merging color, light, space, rhythm of line, and mass in such a way that all have equal value, he was known as “the painter’s painter,” as demonstrated in the paintings Las Meninas, Sebastiàn de Morra, and Baltasar Carlos and a Dwarf.

Two of the most extensively analyzed works of art are Diego Velasquez's Las Meninas and Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Double Portrait. Both of these artist's talent won them recognition not only during their lifetime but after as well. Both Velasquez and Van Eyck have a justly earned title as the most talented artists of their respective times. A detailed examination of the details and intricacies of these artist's respective masterpieces, their similarities, and what sets them apart not just from each other but from other paintings from their time period and style, will lead the viewer to a better understanding of the mentalities of these gifted artists and how they transcend their respective genres and contemporaries to create their own

1. Pablo Picasso and George Braque founded cubism in the early 20th century in Paris. It was an artwork to be considered as the first radical approach in expressing visual reality. According to Cubist, any perception of an object was a composite of simultaneous and different perspectives. Cubism tries to help one understand the world around them in a different way by changing their perspective on a certain subject. It is an approach of art where a painter takes a real life object and changes it in a completely different way to the way he or she views it in there mind and how they perceive it. Cubism used geometric shapes to replace traditional forms. An example of this type of art form is Picasso’s 1907 painting, Les Demoiselles