Sunday, July 22, 2012

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ... Wikipedia


Born: October 25, 1881, Málaga
Died: April 8, 1973, Mougins
Full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
Spouse: Jacqueline Roque (m. 1961–1973), Olga Khokhlova (m. 1918–1954)
Children: Paloma Picasso, Paul Joseph Picasso,Claude Pierre Pablo Picasso, Maya Widmayer-Picasso





















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 Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born in Malaga,Spain, on October 2, 1881 of Jose Ruiz Blasco Picasso and Maria Picasso y Lopez.  He had used his father's last name as his own, but signed his mothers maiden name until 1901 when he decided to stop using Ruiz completely and just go with Pablo Picasso.  He had always been an art genius and had been painting since he was ten.
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Blue Period
     Picasso made three trips to Paris between 1900 and 1902.  He finally moved there in 1904.  This is where he went through what is known now as his blue period.  During this time he used mainly different shades of blue and portrayed the seedy parts of town including beggars, alcoholics, and prostitutes.
 The Old Guitar Player
The Rose Period
     After he moved to Paris he met Fernande Oliver who influenced the mood of his work from dark and gloomy blues to light and happy reds and pinks which led this period in time to be called the Rose Period.  At this time he painted many pictures of a circus that he visited often during his stay in Paris.

 The Acrobats
Protocubism
     In 1906, Picasso moved to Gosol, Spain where he changed his style.  His new works where influenced by Greek, Iberian, and African art.  He began to use more geometrical figures in his artwork  During this time he also made a picture that resembled fractured glass that was, at the time, a very radical idea.

 Reservoir at Horta
Analytic Cubism
     Between 1908 and 1911 Picasso and  George Braque painted landscape paintings in a new style.  This style was termed cubism by a critic who described the work as being made of "little cubes".  They created this style by breaking down and analyzing a object.  The main color scheme was browns and other muddy colors (monochromatic color).

 The Guitar Player
Synthetic Cubism
     In 1912, Picasso began to paste paper and pieces of oilcloth to his paintings and then paint either on them or around them.  These where his first collages.  This technique is called synthetic cubism.  This is a more decorative, colorful style of art.  He has done some synthetic cubism, but not particularly a lot.

 Still Life With Chair-Canning
Realist and Surrealist
     Pablo Picasso has said that he was not a surrealist, but many of his pictures have a surrealist feel to them.  During this time (World War I) he went to Rome and met and married Olga Koklova.  He painted many realistic pictures of her.  Later in the 1920's he painted neoclassical pictures of women and pictures inspired by greek mythology.

 The Dream
Guernica
     Guernica was a work that was done to express his outrage of the German bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.  The painting is not a portrayal of the actual bombing, but a symbol of the act itself

 Guernica
Post War World II
     After World War II Picasso moved towards more somber death like pictures.  He married painter Francoise Gilot.  He had two children with her, Claude and Palmoa.  He later met another woman named Jacqueline Rosque whom he married in 1961.  He died April 8, 1973.

 Skull and Pitcher







Saturday, July 21, 2012

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)


A Spanish artist and writer, Dalí joined the Paris Surrealists in 1929, shortly after the premiere of Un chien andalou, a film he had co-written with Luis Buñuel. . . .











Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)


A Spanish artist and writer, Dalí joined the Paris Surrealists in 1929, shortly after the premiere of Un chien andalou, a film he had co-written with Luis Buñuel. A child prodigy, Dalí began painting at age six, exploring a wide range of styles and approaches, before finally arriving at Surrealism in 1927. His paintings capture the dream state in a remarkably realistic way, overflowing with Freudian symbolism, unrestrained sexual desires and childhood memories. Utilizing his paranoiac-critical method, Dalí's "dream photographs" depict a subconscious world of mysterious landscapes and melting objects, with great attention paid to elements of Nature - the earth, sky, clouds, water, pebbles, insects, animals, fruit, etc. While exploring his deepest obsessions and fantasies, Dalí conjured up unforgettable surrealist images, often containing hidden figures and double meanings. Among his many masterpieces are The Lugubrious Game (1929), The Great Masturbator (1929), The Bleeding Roses(1930), The Persistence of Memory (1931), The Phantom Cart (1933) and Atavistic Vestiges After the Rain (1934).


Dalí's explorations were not limited to painting. He also created photographs, sculptures, holographs, jewelry, clothing, stage scenery, film scripts and literature. In 1939 he designed and oversaw the construction of the Dream of Venus, a surrealist funhouse at the World's Fair in New York. During the 1940s, he published his autobiography The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí and collaborated with Philippe Halsman on several memorable photographic experiments, including Nude With Popcorn (1948), Dalí Atomicus (1948), and Dalí and the Skull (1951). Finally, in 1974, the Dalí Theatre and Museum, a building conceived and designed by the artist himself, was opened in Figueres, Spain.


Though, in later years, Dalí's endless self-promotion and megalomania led Breton to dub him "Avida Dollars", there is no denying the profound impact he had on Surrealism. Responsible for an immense collection of powerful images, Dalí emerged as the Movement's most recognizable figure.



Female NudeFemale Nude
Salvador Dali
1945

Soft WatchSoft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion
Salvador Dali
1954

PremonitionPremonitionSalvador Dali
1904-1989
DaliThe Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali
1931
DaliCrucifixion
Salvador Dali
1954

DaliGeopoliticus Child
Watching the Birth of the
New Man

Salvador Dali
1943
DaliSleep
Salvador Dali
1937

DaliThe Ship
Salvador Dali
1942-43
DaliThe Weaning of Furniture-
Nutrition

Salvador Dali
1934
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Transcendental Steps
Transcendental Steps
Eric Nesmith
1998

Dail copy
Dissentigration
of Salvadorian Bryce
Shawn Sapp
based on Dali
1998
UNnatural
Eric Nesmith
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