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Picasso Vs Andy Warhol

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Throughout the year’s people have loved art and its way to bring emotions up from the depths of their hearts. Things that can alter the way art effects people is the style, subject, and mood of art. Two artists that have had those effects on people are Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso. Although Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso were both influential artists, but Andy Warhol’s spoke more to the average person because of it cheerier subject matter than that of Picasso’s austere Cubism. Andy Warhol was born August 6, 1928 in Pittsburg Pennsylvania and he was born to Czechoslovakian immigrant parents. When Andy was young he had a nervous disorder that would often keep him home with his mother. His mother was an artist herself and encouraged Andy to do …show more content…

Picasso’s father was a painter and also was Picasso’s first art teacher. Picasso also went to college, but he went at the age of fourteen to Barcelona’s School of Fine Arts after an astonishing entrance exam (Bio.com Pablo…). Pablo Picasso also had a mental illness, depression. This depression is most prominent in his blue period, his work through that time being called melancholic. This period happened after the death of his friend Carlos Casegemas, The Old Guitarist being an example of this period. As Warhol pioneered the world of pop art Picasso lead the way to Cubism, with a series of paintings in a race with Gorges Braque to innovate in this new field of painting. Cubism can be much bleaker that the bright entrancing colors of pop art with is out of proportion features and racy subject matter. Not to long after that his paintings had a tendency to me more violent, very unlike that of Warhol’s, this was because of his marriage, with dancer Ogla Koklova, falling to pieces. It has often been believed that Picasso’s art changed along with his 2 wives and many mistresses. Picasso, like Warhol, took inspiration from his surroundings, which include but are not limited to, beggars, prostitutes, and circus performers, to the Spanish Civil, Nazi invaded Paris, and the Communist Party in the following war. Unlike Andy Warhol Pablo Picasso’s art had a much deeper meaning that that of the mechanical prints Warhol made (Pablo Picasso

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