Pablo Picasso

(noun)

(1881 – 1973) a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement and the invention of constructed sculpture.

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  • Picasso

    • Pablo Picasso is one of most influential artists of the 20th century, known for Cubist art, constructed sculpture, and collage.
    • Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
    • Picasso's work is often categorized into periods.
    • Picasso and Braque's paintings at this time have many similarities.
    • Discuss Picasso's artistic importance and the periods into which his art is categorized

  • Construction

    • The practice of assemblage or construction as sculpture has been employed by many prominent artists including Braque, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Mann Ray, and Robert Rauschenberg.
    • The precise origin of the term constructed sculpture dates to the cubist constructions of Pablo Picasso circa 1912-1914, as well as those of Marcel Duchamp.
    • However, both Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso had been working with found objects for many years prior to Dubuffet.
    • Pablo Picasso first publicly utilized the idea when he pasted a printed image of chair caning onto his painting titled Still Life with Chair Caning (1912).

  • Primitivism and Cubism

    • As one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso is widely known for his involvement in Cubism and Primitivism.
    • This painting is also considered a protocubist work bridging Picasso's African and Cubist periods.
    • Georges Braque, with Picasso, was one of the founders of Cubism.
    • Picasso was greatly influenced by Gauguin's African inspired works like The Moon and The Earth.
    • Identify Picasso's unique importance to the development of both Primitivism and Cubism in the early 20th century.

  • Contemporary Art

    • Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and many others created important and influential works from found objects.
    • This work by Picasso is considered to be a major step towards the founding of the Cubist movement.

  • Sculpture

    • In the early 20th century, Pablo Picasso revolutionized the art of sculpture when he began combining disparate objects and materials into one constructed piece of sculpture; the sculptural equivalent of the collage in two dimensional art.
    • The advent of Surrealism led to objects being described as "sculpture" that would not have been so previously, like "coulage" and other forms of "involuntary sculpture. " In later years, Picasso became a prolific potter, leading a revival in ceramic art with other notables including George E.
    • Brâncuşi's impact, through his vocabulary of reduction and abstraction, is seen throughout the 1930s and 1940s, exemplified by artists including Gaston Lachaise , Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore , Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Julio González, Pablo Serrano, and Jacques Lipchitz.

  • Expressive and Symbolic Uses of Color

    • A select few examples of this practice include les Fauves and abstract expressionists, along with artists Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
    • Henri Matisse is widely regarded as the greatest colorist of the 20th century, and as a rival to Picasso in the importance of his innovations.
    • Picasso's Blue Period is a term used to define to works produced by Picasso between 1901 and 1904, when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors.
    • In the latter part of 1901, Picasso sank into a severe depression and blue tones began to dominate his paintings.
    • Picasso's painting "La Mort de Casagemas", completed early in the year following his friend's suicide, was done in hot, bright hues.

  • Assemblage

    • The origin of the term in its artistic sense can be traced back to the early 1950s, when French artist Jean Dubuffet created a series of collages of butterfly wings, which he titled "assemblages d'empreintes. " However, the origin of the artistic practice dates to the early 20th century as both Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso had been working with found-objects for many years prior to Dubuffet, and they were not alone.
    • Nevelson called herself "the original recycler" owing to her extensive use of discarded objects, and credited Pablo Picasso for the cube that served as the groundwork for her cubist-style sculpture.
    • The exhibition showcased the work of early 20th century European artists such as Braque, Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Picasso, and Kurt Schwitters alongside Americans Man Ray, Joseph Cornell, Robert Mallary and Robert Rauschenberg, and also included lesser known American west coast assemblage artists such as George Herms, Bruce Conner and Edward Kienholz.

  • Other Forms of Cubism

    • Cubism was an avant-garde art movement of the early 20th century pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, and later joined by Juan Gris, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, and Fernand Léger.
    • Georges Braque, with Picasso, was one of the founders of Cubism.

  • Effects of Colonialism on Nigerian Art

    • In a growing climate of interest in Africa, artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse began to look toward African artwork as inspiration for some of their work.
    • This proto-Cubist period following Picasso's Blue Period and Rose Period has also been called the Black Period.
    • In May or June 1907, Picasso experienced a "revelation" while viewing African art at the ethnographic museum at Palais du Trocadéro.
    • Other works of Picasso's African Period include the Bust of a Woman (1907), Mother and Child (1907), Nude with Raised Arms (1907), and Three Women (1908).
    • The two figures on the right are the beginnings of Picasso's African period.

  • Abstract Sculpture

    • The style is most closely associated with the formal experiments of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.
    • Others were quick to follow Braque and Picasso's lead in Paris, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Alexander Archipenko, Joseph Csaky, Jacques Lipchitz, Henri Laurens and Ossip Zadkine.
    • During his period of Cubist innovation, Picasso revolutionized the art of sculpture by by combining disparate objects and materials into one sculptural work - the sculptural equivalent of collage in two dimensional art.
    • Brâncuşi's impact, with his vocabulary of reduction and abstraction, is seen throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and exemplified by artists including Gaston Lachaise, Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Ásmundur Sveinsson, Julio González, Pablo Serrano, and Jacques Lipchitz.
    • Discuss the evolution of abstract sculpture through the periods of Cubism and Surrealism, naming the important works of Rodin, Picasso, Duchamp, and Brâncuşi.