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Picasso And Braque's 'A Closeness Of Opposites'

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Have you ever seen any written documentations that record the complicated interchange of the conversation that only took place between Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque? Are you not curious the terminology that they use during their discussion as they explore further and further into a brand new direction of art at the time? After reading "The Shared Vision,"1 I was surprised to know more information from the aspect of the more reality side of the artist, that Picasso and Braque have very distinct personalities. In the section of "A Closeness of Opposites," says both Picasso and Braque is sharing the same obstacles in the development of the language of Cubism.2 And they contributed to one another exactly on what they both lacking from each other. …show more content…

Synthetic Cubism emerges into people's sight with brighter colors and simpler lines and shapes, compares to Analytic Cubism, Synthetic Cubism is focusing on building up the picture with collage and forms to further analyze the objects from its shape to structure. And with the addition of collages, cubists has a wider range of use of materials to create images from their imagination, which allows the work to be able to mimic the texture of difference surface, hence the name of 'synthetic.' The Sunblind [1914] by Juan Gris perfect demonstrates the characteristics of both simple shapes and collage as the definition, thought the color scheme are not in the range of considering to be bright. In the comparison of earlier piece Ma Jolie(with guitar), it is more vibrant regarding the palate. Originally title as La Jalousie, in the picture features a slight opened blind diagonally positioned from left to right across the canvas aligned with the table. And the light that illuminates through the blinds casts shadows on the objects on the table which leaves a mirror shadow on the table that resembled some sort of drinkware. Without the solid outline, Juan Gris uses various shapes, collages of paper, and chalk paints to suggest the form of the subject in the

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The artist uses shadows and light to create a powerful visual imagery. The darkness underneath the table and at the corner of the room brings forth the overwhelming feeling of sadness evoked by the lady. On the other hand, the coffee cup and saucer are painted in very white colors in an effort to draw the viewers’ attention closer to the woman and separate them from the many shadowy distractions within the room. Furthermore, although the viewer knows utterly nothing about the woman in the painting or her background, the artist draws them to relevant clues that might enable them to infer about what she is going through. Through the marque use of shadows and light, the viewer is again drawn to closer to the lady.

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They were very alike and very different at the same time. Picasso and Matisse both painted women and still life but Picasso was more imaginative and Matisse painted from nature. Matisse in one occasion tried cubism as we can see in his painting Piano lessons, but he struggled. Picasso once said “No one has ever looked at Matisse's paintings more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he (Henry Matisse,

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In Cubist artwork objects are scrutinized Brocken up and rearranged in an abstract form, instead of showing an object from one view point the artist presents it from multiple view points to show the object in a broader context. There are many art subjects that have represented the cubist art. One painting in particular by one of the founder’s Pablo Picasso himself La boutielle de Suze, is a key drawing of the cubist movement. In the painting Picasso used cut remnants of newspapers, wallpaper, construction paper along with gauche and charcoal to form a liquor bottle with a label, on the left of the bottle sits an ashtray with cigarette smoke. All the materials combined rests on a blue table facing a wall with diamond shaped wallpaper and newsprint.

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Pablo Picasso is a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer. He was one of the most influential artist during the 20th century. He also invented Cubism along with Georges Braques during 1907-1908 . They further developed this style by taking everyday figures and object and breaking them into basic shapes to make it appear two-dimensional and boxlike which lead to the name Cubism. He was also a part of the Surrealist Art Movement.

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“In 1912, Cubism entered a new phase during which the style no longer relied on a decipherable relation to the visible world. In this new phase, called synthetic cubism, paintings and drawings were constructed from objects and shapes cut out from paper or other materials to represent parts of a subject” (de la Croix, Tansey, KirkPatrick 962).In Synthetic Cubism, it focused more on a collage type of style, and focused less on making objects appear realistic to that in real life but more of the whole object made from parts of different kinds of media. “The wonderful new possibilities offered by collage can be seen in Braques Fruit Dish and Cards, done in a variant of collage called papier colle, in which assorted paper shapes are glued to a drawing or painting” (delaCroix, Tansey, KirkPatrick 963). The way which Braque used different

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Cézanne's firm determination and constant insistence on redoing nature in accordance to a system of basic forms was important to boost up Picasso's own interest at that period of time. Through Cézanne's work Picasso found a method of how to distill the basic essential from nature in order to achieve a completely cohesive surface that portrayed the artist's singular vision. Paul Cézanne was a constant touchstone for the Pablo Picasso and other artists during the period of collaboration, which ultimately resulted in the invention of Cubism by 1909. His greatest works included Mont Sainte-Victoire and House of the Hanged Man, which showed some acute resemblance to the style of Renoir, Pissarro and

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“By breaking objects and figures down into distinct areas-or planes-the artists aimed to show different viewpoints at the same time and within the same space and so suggest their three-dimensional form.” Cubism represented a new view of the world, one that had never been seen before. The world had been completely changed by the World Wars, which meant that people were searching for a way to express their emotions. Reality was too horrific to continue depicting.

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The artist’s very first piece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, is known to have been what introduced cubism into this world. Cubism is a stylistic choice of art in which geometric shapes are repeatedly used and fragmented in order mask out certain images. At the time that Picasso had first released his painting the world of art was practically in ruins which is why cubism was made such an impact. Picasso’s new method completely drove away from the usual european two-dimensional style.

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Pablo Picasso is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, known for creating Cubism among art along with many famous works including Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Guernica, the latter of which will be talked about in this essay. Picasso was born October 25, 1881 and died April 8, 1973, spending most of his adult life in France painting, sculpting, writing, and much more. He also went through periods of different types of painting styles including the Blue Period, the Rose Period, and a few others. Guernica was from a period of Picasso’s named “surrealism” which consists of illogical scenes and strange creatures created from inanimate objects. Guernica went from an artist’s depiction of a horrific bombing to a revered art masterpiece.

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Pablo Picasso was a revolutionary artist of the 20th century who is credited as the inventor of collage. Collage as an art form is the idea that by cutting various elements out and gluing them together on a canvas, the assemblage creates something wholly new. Picasso used this technique in conjunction with his paintings to formulate his experimental works between 1912 and 1913. These collages were very crude and often consisted of only a handful of elements leaving lots of room for interpretation of this nebulosity. In the analysis of these works, Rosalind Krauss argues that these collages are in actuality a series of signs with a strict dichotomy between material and reference.

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Picasso strays from depicting reality in the sense that the picture would be recognizable in the natural world, but instead Picasso represents reality with his subjective lens. Similar to the previous two paintings I have discussed, this painting engages and challenges the audience to understand a piece of art that has a multi-faceted meaning. At first it appears like chaotic figures with no real sense of direction. There is no central focus point and the viewer’s eyes scan the entire canvas searching for a logical story. Picasso has taken issues of modern society and incorporated it into his painting.

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The compressed space the figures inhabit appears to project forward in jagged shards; a fiercely pointed slice of melon in the still life of fruit at the bottom of the composition teeters on an impossibly upturned tabletop. These strategies would be significant in Picasso’s subsequent development of Cubism, charted in this gallery with a selection of the increasingly fragmented compositions he created in this period. Joy of Life is a large-scale painting (nearly 6 feet in height, 8 feet in width), depicting an Arcadian landscape filled with brilliantly colored forest, meadow, sea, and sky and populated by nude figures both at rest and in motion. As with the earlier Fauve canvases, color is responsive only to emotional expression and the formal needs of the canvas, not the realities of nature. The references are many, but in form and date, Bonheur de Vivre is closest to Cézanne 's last great image of

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During the early 20th century a new art style emerged. Being the first abstract style of modern art, and which term “Cubism” now describes the revolutionary style of painting. Pablo Picassso and Georges Braques developed Cubism in Paris during the period of 1907 and 1914. This new style was initially influenced by the geometric motifs in the landscape compositions of the Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne. This revolutionary style marked the end of the Renaissance dominated era, and the beginning of the modern art.

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