Essays on Pablo Picasso

The piece of art that will be focused on is “The Old Guitarist” by Pablo Picasso. It was created in 1904 in Barcelona, Spain. This is an oil painting on canvas, and the size is roughly 122.9 cm by 82.6 cm. It is currently on...

An art style unlike any other. An art style that went on to influence others for generations to come. It was the pathway to century defining art movements, such as: surrealism, abstract expressionism and pop art. It also paved the way for similar movements in...

The piece of artwork that has influenced me and my work personally the most was “The Weeping Woman” by Pablo Picasso. Picasso has been someone I’ve studied throughout my lifetime and has been a huge influence to many. There are many different styles and techniques...

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso also known as Pablo Picasso was a Spanish sculptor, ceramicist, and painter born in Málaga, Spain, on October 25, 1881. He was...

Just as Impressionism played a key role in Modernism, another revolutionary art movement is Cubism. About 30 years after the first Modernist movement Impressionism begun, Cubism was slowly replacing it. “Since the Renaissance almost all paintings had obeyed a convention”, Pablo Picasso ditched this convention...

This comparison will look at Henry Moore’s Woman Seated in the Underground, and Pablo Picasso’s Bullfight Scene. Picasso’s drawing was completed in ink on paper (480 by 623 mm in size) and depicts the picador, on his horse, lancing a bull. The focus is not...

Pablo Picasso, father of cubism and pioneer of neo-expressionism, immortal in his fame, once said, “Everything you can imagine is real”. To the layperson, Picasso’s notion may smack of enigmatic evasiveness; the transcendence of reality is not easy to conceptualize. To playwright Luigi Pirandello, however,...

In Right You Are (If You Think So), Luigi Pirandello questions absolute truth by presenting various and contrasting perspectives of the same objects. The practice of highlighting multiple perspectives by showing several angles of the same object at once is one of the key elements...

Charles Baudelaire was undoubtedly the epitome of all French poets both in the early 18th century and the present day. Being the most compelling poet in both the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Baudelaire is acknowledged for his success in the exceptional expression of a sophisticated...

During the twentieth century, schools of art had shifted their focus from precedent movements within the community that followed a pattern of similar styles and themes within their portrayals, such as that found in the early Renaissance and post-impressionist period, to a more open-ended, multi-layered...

Narrator 1: 7–9 Guitar. Made in 1914 by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973. Sheet metal and wire, 30 inches high by 13 inches wide by 8 inches deep.Narrator 2: This sculpture of a guitar is slightly smaller than an average guitar. It’s made...

Pablo Picasso is well known for colorful abstract paintings. His unique talent of creating a painting that may not look like real life, but has a deeper meaning, has been copied my many other modern painters. Picasso had many different styles of paintings during his...

Both Goya’s 3rd of May and Picasso’s Guernica are anti-war masterpieces and both represent tragedies in Spain resulting from attacks by foreign entities. Though born a century apart, these artists originated in Spain and chose to express outrage over the violation of their countrymen via...

Artists have shocked and confronted audiences in pursuit of the ‘avant-garde’ in art movements such as Realism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism. Realists, abandoning traditional themes and practices; Cubists and their subject matter, positioning, composition, and primitivism; and Abstract Expressionists, abandoning conventional tools and methods of...

Pablo Picasso has made a change in history with his meaningful paintings. He was born on October 25, 1881, and learned about art at an early age. He became a painter, sculptor, printmaker, stage designer, ceramicist, playwright and poet, and spent a lot of his...