In this piece, the image seems to be almost completely lost. The lines appear to come together to create familiar objects. Like Picasso’s this painting also has little color and he uses white, blue, red and yellow. The painting is very creative and it’s like Gorky creates his own language, his own mark making and even his own calligraphy. Finally, the most recent of the artworks, Jackson Pollock’s Full Fathom Five, 1947.
Picasso uses images such as fallen soldiers, animals suffering and women in pain as well as destruction of buildings to portray his sorrow and the suffering of war. ‘Guernica’ Pablo Picasso The work is 349 x 776cm and its sharp images and dull colour tones of black, grey and white are used intentionally to promote the pointlessness of war. He uses shadows to depict suffering and pain and shows the turmoil he felt as a Spaniard. William Kentridge is famous for portraying his views through his work. Born in Johannesburg South Africa, the son of a civil rights lawyer, he grew up in the time of Apartheid and depicts this in prints, drawings and animated films.
However, he is not fully capable of discerning the meaning behind the story being told, nor can he discern any of the other paintings upon the urn completely. It goes to show the complexity of the language of art when read by mankind. Art can not only speak to a person, but it can also paint a picture of a perfect world inside one’s mind. The human mind and human emotion can sometimes yearn for the world that is reality to bend to what it desires. Though this is not likely at all to occur in the realm of reality, it is easy to capture a world of perfection in eternal stillness in art.
In the background, a colourful painting hangs on a yellow wall, a canvas sits on a wooden easel to the left and a door is visible on the right side of the composition. Van Gogh said "...it is difficult to know yourself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either." ‘Self Portrait with a Bandaged Ear’ is an honest portrayal of the artists battle with mental illness and loneliness, indicating that painting was the artists only solace and means of understanding himself. ‘Self Portrait with a Bandaged Ear’ portrays that Van Gogh’s depression and violent outbursts were spiralling out of control. The evidence of his self-harm is seen through the white bandage covering his ear.
ANALYTIC CUBISM One could ask the question, when did “Cubism” begin? Some art historians consider a single painting of 1907, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, as the beginning. But that would be assuming that Picasso was the most important Cubist artist. The problem with that assumption is that the artist never considered Les Demoiselles d’Avignon to be finished and kept the work rolled up under his bed until he sold it in the 1920s to the collector, fashion designer, Jacques Doucet. The painting was exhibited publicly only once in 1916 (during the Great War) until the 1920s and was purchased in 1929 for the new Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
This does not necessarily mean that the bystanders are better off not being bothered, but that they don’t even seem to be bothered at all by a man drowning. Auden's poem is constructed in a way that is very different from Williams' poem. Auden’s poem is designed in two stanzas, both very different from one another, but carrying out one theme throughout the entire poem. His first stanza doesn’t address Breughel’s painting at all and is entirely based on the title, "Musee des Beaux Arts". Auden is making a
1983. Polygnotos (monumental) * He was from Thasos and was a wall painter. * Not a fragment of his work survives but his influence appears to have been profound. * Internal motivation rather than external activity intrigued him and he often avoided painting the obvious moment of climax e.g. didn’t depict the sack of Troy but he painted the scene the day after so that he could explore the movement of the mind when that of the body had been stilled.
Half-caste John Agard is saying that people are to obsessed with purity and he is trying to say that people calling him half-caste think he is somehow less pure than them. He is attempting to change that by using phrases like ‘when Picasso mix red and green/is a half-caste canvas’. By using this he is saying you wouldn’t say this about Picasso’s paintings because they are beautiful so why would you say that about a person. The poem is about the poets annoyance and sadness of people using the phrase half-caste. The poem has a sarcastic tone to it and I think it’s to show how he thinks that people are not thinking when they use this phrase, he expresses this by saying “when you say half-caste/yu mean when Picasso/mix red and green/is a half-caste canvas”.
CUBISM ESSAY – Kate Ward Picasso once said “ I paint forms as I think them, not as I see them”. Discuss this statement with reference to his Cubist work “Still Life with a Chair Cane” In this statement “I paint forms as I think them, not as I see them” Picasso is referring to his personal way of thinking when concerning his ideas towards creating his unique artworks. He is saying that he has no desire to copy a snippet of reality onto a canvas like most traditional artists do. He wants to express his ideas about the modern world around him and how it can be interpreted. This presents a deeper, more truthful interpretation of reality through the practice of both synthetic and analytical cubism that reflects an avante garde style.
Although he is glorified through the detail and nudeness of his body, he does not look godly. Through the perfect portrayal of David, Michelangelo is celebrating and appreciating the human body. Leonardo da Vinci was also influenced by humanism in his painting, The Last Supper. Although the focus in this painting is the people if you look beyond them and to the background, you see through the windows that da Vinci captured the hills and other landscape. This shows the depth of the painting and makes it seem more like real life.