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    Modern or Modernist? High Modernism vs. Low Modernism Damian Sun 1238719 University of Waikato   Modernism was a movement that was developed during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Modernism developed due to the changes happening in societies at the time. Around the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century there was a rise in the industrial society’s where there were advancements in technologies and machines, and a rapid growths in cities. This lead to a change

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    painter. He was able to plant all his emotions into a vacant canvas. Not only that, but he was also a very influential painter because he started at a young age, most of his painting skills were innovated, and he also created his own form of painting: Cubism. Picasso at the age of three learned how to say “piz, piz” in an attempt to say “lápiz” meaning pencil in Spanish. His father, José Ruiz y Blasco, began teaching Picasso at a young age. Picasso’s father was an art teacher that was highly skilled and

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    Marc Chagall Marc Chagall as an artist and as a person cannot be categorized. He was born in Vitebsk, Russia, learned to paint in St. Petersburg and lived in Paris, Berlin, and the United States. His career is influenced by many different factors. His Hasidic Jewish upbringing reflected in the content of his paintings greatly. The lyrical fairy tales of Jewish mysticism, the stories of the Bible, and the Rabbis and scholars who surrounded him in his childhood come out onto his work. When he went

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    Fernando (School of Fine Arts). Dali was experimenting with mainly three different styles of art, impressionism, futurism, and cubism. All of this led to him becoming a surrealist artist. Since there wasn’t a Cubism artist in Madrid Dali found his inspiration for Cubism art from magazines Dali caught the attention of the other students with his art that focused on Cubism art form along with his personality and the way

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    career spanned long period, Pablo Picasso is most known for his creation of cubism, and new approach to painting, which makes big movements on the 20th century. Then not only he and his art form bring a such revolution on modern art, but also the works he create, went on to influence artists and painters. After long time passed from his time, still he influences the styles of many artists today. After introduction of the cubism art form, alongside Georges Braque, the view of the modern art had changed

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    and that's called “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”. Created by Pablo Picasso in 1907 and painted with oils, this piece would best be known for the influence of Cubism. I just love the imagination and mysterious shapes and meanings of Cubism.This method of painting was a big influence a lot of the paintings and sculptures of its era. In a sense, Cubism has become a part of our daily lives due to the indirect influences of the arts. Picasso is known for adapting to new influences,

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    The creation of Cubism was a result of his collaboration with the French artist Georges Braque. ("Pablo", 2017) The painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" was created in 1907 and exhibited for the first time in 1916.WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT UNIT 7 4 Discussion By the time of his

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    Pablo Picasso, Girl Before a MirrorPablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain. Picasso was one of thegreatest artists of the 20th century. Pablo Picasso is well known for his introductionof cubism and modern art. Picasso once said, “Art is a lie that makes us realize thetruth." Picasso’s first masterpiece was Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, He had manyimportant art pieces including Girl Before a Mirror. Picasso’s painting Girl Before aMirror was about a young girl named Marie Therese Walter. The

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    central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth….. Lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth.” Following the advice of Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque set out to initiate the movement of Analytical Cubism. Picasso may be universally credited for inventing Cubism, but he could not have done it without the help of Georges Braque. Not as wildly known as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque was born in 1882 into a family of house painters and decorators and set out to become a great artist

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    never inspired him. In the next period Cubism (1909-1914) Picasso worked with dimension and moved towards abstraction. It was like different objects are broken apart and then reassembled in abstract forms. Cubism stunned and fascinated the art world. Braque said “It made me feel as if someone was drinking gasoline and spitting fire” (Biography.com, 2015) explaining his feelings when he first saw the paintings. Cubism changed avant-garde all over again. Cubism had two branches Analytic (1909-1912)

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