Pablo Picasso Artwork Introduction
Artistic events have gone through many stages. Since the development of the art of painting, many changes have been effects. These changes relate to cultural, intellectual, and perceptional changes in the society and among involved persons. Between 14th century and 17th century, artistic events went through three stages. They went through the periods like Trecento, Quattrocento, and Cinquecento. In recent time, artistic events went through different movements. Examples are the expressionism movement, cubism, and surrealism (Pofahl, 2003). This paper discusses the artwork of Pablo Picasso. In order to show the different movements that Picasso went through, this paper compare the Girl in Chair (1952), and
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The movement is recognized for writings and visual artworks. It resolves the previous contradictions between reality and dream. Artists painted illogical, unnerving landscape with photographic exactness and created weird figures from normal objects. Surrealist works portray features of surprise and unexpected juxtaposition. Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term Surrealist in 1903, but the term was applied as from 1917 (Caws, 2004).Picasso went to Italy in February 1917, where he was influenced to create work in a neoclassical style. Picasso painted using neoclassical style to recall the works of Ingres and Raphael. However, in 1925, Andre Breton influenced Picasso to use surrealist style. Andre Breton declared in his article Le Surrealisme et la peinture that Picasso was a surrealist. At the time, Picasso’s work depicted cubism and neoclassical style. Due to the announcement, Picasso developed new images that showed his emotions. The images depicted psychic fears, violence, and eroticism. Picasso’s transition was glued to cubism and thus his work showed a fusion of primitivism and psychological resonances. Surrealism revitalized Picasso’s eroticism and