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    Pablo Picasso Some say he was superstitious, sarcastic, awful towards his children, and horrible to women. He could very well have been all those things, but one thing I know Pablo Picasso was a great artist. He is one of the fathers of cubism, he had an audience of at least tens of millions. No other painter or sculptor before him had the fame that Picasso had. In the year 1881 a son was born to Don Jose Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso on the southern coast of Spain in a town called

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    The mesmerizing painting created by the 20th Century French artist Paul Cezanne portrays how even incomplete works are capable of depicting its own form of art and overall experience. His painting On the Banks of a River is constructed using oil on canvas and is an unfinished lifelike rendering of a natural scenery; well-preserved today at the RISD Museum. Cezanne’s process of painting and his techniques are clearly discernible in this early stage of art. Likely using a wide brush, his paint strokes

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    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

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    submit illustrations using dark humor to journals. He used Cubism in two different ways. In some paintings, his use of squares is very prominent and the image looks almost grid-like. In other art pieces, his lines are not as strong and straight. He died at the age of 40 after dealing with frequent illnesses due to heart and uremia problems. His death was caused by renal failure. The Sunblind (1914) Juan Gris 1887 – 1927 • Charcoal, paper, chalk, and gouache • A lot of use of light and shadows

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    works are of art so sought out, that people spend millions of their money to get them for themselves. Picasso lived for almost 100 years, and in that time created tens of thousands of different works of art. He and Georges Braque are the creators of cubism, which was a completely different type of art for its time. Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born October 25, 1881 in the city of Málaga, Spain on the Mediterranean Sea. His parents, José Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso, were both from Spain. His father from

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    as abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative” Piet Mondrian We may read this quote and think “What does Mondrian mean?” However, Mondrian’s early works reveal his desire to unearth geometric order in the prospect of his native country. Cubism became one of the most influential art movements in the 20th century. The perspective of a single angle became forgotten and was replaced by a collage of geometric shapes, intertwining planes, etc. By the early 1900s, Mondrian began to dismantle his

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    Cubism is a strange art style created by Pablo Picasso and a painter named Georges Braque. The first usage of cubism used by Picasso would be in the painting “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”. The painting was a depiction of distorted women by using sharp broken up shapes with unusual color scheme of blues greens and grays. The path a typical cubism painting takes is that a series of objects in an original, easy to see picture

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    can by extension understand how cubism took influence from post-impressionism, as well as what new elements it brought to the table. The setting and mood are very similar, as is the sense of timelessness and the focus on structure and forms. In Picasso's work, however, the form is further broken down into more basic geometric shapes and they are set against a two-dimensional plane, in stark contrast to the spatial depth that Cezanne featured ("Pablo Picasso's Cubism Period", n.d.). Picasso's work

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    THIHA SOUL “How is the concept of Art influenced by the culture you are in?” Thiha Soul -13597 FAN 5 C Lau Sheow Tong History of Arts and Ideas I D-FA203 THIHA SOUL THIHA SOUL No one can deny that art is always changing and affecting the all society of entire world and art has acted as a dramatic reflection of the social and political events taking place in regions in recent decades. So, what is art? , Art is a variety of human activities and the products of these activities;

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    different view of Walter in comparison to paintings of his other mistresses. One of the unique parts of the ‘Seated Woman’ painting is the style that is presented by Picasso. Made mainstream in the art world by Picasso and fellow artist Georges Braque, cubism is the

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