Modern Art

"The Chornel House" was made in 1945 by Pablo Picasso. This specific piece was also named the piece de resistance in the Tate exhibit. Picasso himself said that the work was affected by revelations of the real-life charnel houses of the holocaust. As the co-founder of the Cubist movement he made pieces of work for artists to be able to reconstruct their paintings into detailed thoughts and ideas. All on the viewers perception of shapes and metrics.  I chose this painting because of the faces on the figures and them actually being tied or most of the eyes but one are closed. It doesn't feel like any type of home.

"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" was a painting done by Pablo Picasso in 1907. Picasso was known for being the co-founder of the Cubist movement, he helped develop and explore different styles. I chose this painting because of the faces on the figures. This was painted at the beginning of his African influenced period, the faces were inspired by the Iberian sculpture and African masks. When Picasso tried to display this painting in his studio a year later, people reacted shocked and disgusted, which caused it to get dismissed. Picasso did not display it again until 1916. 

This is a painting by Picasso known as "Girl Before a Mirror". I chose this painting because of the way the woman looks, and because of the way she is reflected. She does not look exactly like a human woman, yet from her features it is still somehow obvious that she is one. It is also interesting to look at the way she reflects in the mirror. When reflected she is a different color than she is in the real world. Perhaps Picasso is trying to convey that the woman's true emotions are different from how she appears externally.

The Portrait of Dora Maar was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1937. Dora Maar, who's real name was Dora Markovic, was a yugoslavian photographer. I chose this painting because the facial features of Dora Maar really stood out to me. Picasso made her face seem almost distorted with the different colors and larger features on some parts of the face. For many people, these deformities are the very hallmark of Picasso's art, which serve as an expressive purpose. 

The painting is called Jacqueline with Flowers in 1954 by Picasso. Out of all his paintings that fall under the category of cubism. This was my favorite. I picked this one because of the small details. The first that caught my eye were the flowers in the back. They are not harshly outlined or the same style as anything in the foreground. The next is her hair. At first glance it looks like he put random section and lines going random ways, but when you look closer you can see which way the hair would actually fall. And last I like what i assume is a little teardrop. Besides the small details, the part that drew my in was the long neck of the woman.

This painting shows off the spontaneous agility of the acrobat's body. Pablo Picasso is the initiator of biomorphism, which is pioneered by fellow Spaniard Joan Miro. But Miro goes further by using neo-Neolithic shapes to define new spatial concepts of freedom and rejected Cubist space. But on the other hand, Picasso's exploration with surrealism maintained the human form and identity. 

I chose this picture, because it was the one on my psych of the personality book last year. I did not know that this was painted by Picasso. I like all of the colors and shapes. I believe that this portrays Picasso's favorite mistress. I like how they are still humanistic qualities in the woman's face. It's interesting that he painted her face in a harlequin manner, and how the reflection in the mirror inverts some of the colors.

The Old guitarist is an oil painting Pablo Picasso produced while in Spain in 1903. its a picture depicting an old man playing his guitar slumped over in the streets of Barcelona.  he is depicted as blind. He looks tired and suffering. the colors used for the painting are blues and grays giving of the feeling cold and solitude. How long has he been there? Why is he there in the first place? does he have nowhere else to be? The picture is painted as a scene of sadness. what if he's playing something on the guitar something joyous. maybe hes playing something to cheer himself up.

Pablo Picasso's Painting: "The Weeping Women" Written By: Madison Herley I choose the painting "The Weeping Women" which was created by the famous Pablo Picasso during his Cubism period. Picasso is considered the father of Cubism because he was a painter who wanted to redefine art in relation to nature. With that being said, my eyes were drawn to this painting right away because it was abstract, unique, and a lot of bright colors. All of the other paintings I have chosen from previous painters didn't have the same approach as Picasso. This painting was created during the Cubism period which means Picasso involved his creations to have some sort of geometric shapes and patterns to represent a certain form. Other Cubist painters denied the old style of art which could be define as art representing nature, modeling, or a perspective. While, these Cubist painters adopted the illustration of creating art with geometric components such as angles and ...

The Woman in Hat and Fur Collar was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1937 in Paris. The woman in this painting, Marie-Therese Walter, is Picasso's lover and the mother of his daughter. Although some people may think this woman is unrecognizable at first, once you look closely you, you will be able to recognize Walter's distinct features Picasso purposely included. This painting is meant to turn this woman into a figure of sensuality. This artwork was created during "the Marie-Therese Walter period." I chose this painting because I enjoyed how the front view and the profile view of the woman is merged into an individual image. I enjoyed the bright colors used and the direction the eyes are in. 

In 1910, Pablo Picasso created this painting called "Girl with a Mandolin" during the Cubist movement. Picasso was known to take his subject, analyze, break down, and contour the subject into different squares, cubes, and other geometric shapes. I feel as though he was able to portray his fascination for cubism in this painting, by the way he really was able to give the viewer the ability to make out that there was a woman holding an instrument in the painting, but the background was just random shapes to help make the subject more visible. Supposedly in this time, Picasso and his friend Fernande Oliver spent their summer in Cadaques, where this painting had originated from. Cubism became a movement where artists could reconstruct their paintings into detailed thoughts and ideas. This gave more artists a lot of different styles to go for. Therefor not all paintings would look the same, every single one can be different, since we are all different, our minds are different,...

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this picture depicts a landscape of dead trees and dilapidated buildings the grass is dead and there doesn't seem to be an people or animals. is this a reflection of Paul's feelings? lacking feeling, lacking life, lacking joy? this painting is different from his others, Cezanne usually paints landscapes or still life, and they are usually rough and unfinished. this painting is different. its muted, dark, no apples or bottles. i enjoyed the feel of the darker paintings, Cezanne had a lot of colorful art but i really enjoyed the darker colors used. the painting feels foreboding and intimidating.

Paul Cezanne lived from 1839 -1906. He created the painting  'The Château at Médan' in 1880, it was an oil on canvas.  Cézanne was a  Post Impressionist  artist. He was influenced by the color and vitality of Impressionism but dissatisfied with the limitations of the style.  He called his pictures " constructions after nature's", u sing the natural properties of warm, cool colors, and  c ertain brush strokes to make a 3-D scene in a 2-D painting.  

Paul  Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century  Impressionism  and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. In this painting, I believe it is a representation of death. There is a lot of texture depicted through the contrast of color giving of dark, dull hues. These visible paint brush marks emphasizes texture, form, and light bouncing off the skulls.

Paul Cezanne was a French painter who was influential in the early 20th century. He was one of the first painters to use cubism in his paintings. Personally I feel like some of his works do not look finished because the colors are not mixed together. Cezanne has a few paintings of skulls which could symbolize depression or death. This painting was finished around 1900 and he passed away just a few years after so this could have been him expecting his death.

This painting is called Head of an Old Man by Paul Cezanne. I chose this painting because you can clearly see the brush strokes Cezanne used to create this portrait. I enjoy this style of painting because the brush strokes are extremely heavy and add a texture to the painting that would not exist with thinner layers of paint. He analyzed his subjects as different shapes put together to create an overall form and I believe this perspective added dimension to his work. He found painting nature to be complicated and frustrating and often turned back to the same works over and over again to perfect them. He preferred working inside with darker colors and some even called his work 'violent' do to its dark and heavy nature. 

Paul Cezanne is credited as the father of modern art. His post impressionist work showed very early signs of cubism. The way he uses his colors, if you look closely are not really blended. he uses almost like blobs of color to created tone and depth and shadows and light. from far away you see these women bathing, doing different things, but close up they are almost expressionless figures.

Paul Cezanne, created many beautiful landscapes. this one in particular has a cubic outlook in the painting the building of course is cubic yet even the grass is cubic and the making of the painting is highly skilled and breath taking the cool colors blend together and compliment one anther and the building stands out because it has more of a warm color that makes it three dimensional. the shadowing is added in the corners of the building and you can see he painted this outside and took the shadows and used them as an advantage to capture the life like look of the building and the rolling hills. -Tori Laiso

Pyramid of Skulls is an oil painting done in 1901 by Paul Cezanne. Three skulls are facing forward and the other one in the back is laying down. The white skulls juxtapose the dark background. After doing research, this is a unique painting done by Cezanne because no other still life subject was ever painted so close to the viewer. Cezanne also never showed much interest in painting skulls until 1895. People say he was depressed so the paintings reflected that with the skulls. This was painted during the last decade of his life before he died of pneumonia.

I really enjoyed looking through Paul Cezzane's artwork. He has a wide variety of paintings from still life, to landscapes, to people, etc. His works that stood out most to me though were his landscapes. He used a lot of different colors and techniques from what was the norm back then. I especially enjoyed his painting, The Bay of Marseille, 1885. I picked this piece because of his technique in this painting. You can see the brush strokes which adds texture to the sky, mountains, and the water. You can also see the depth of the mountains compared to the houses in the front of the painting because of his attention to detail. I also think his color use was a great choice because ocean really stands out next to the gray mountains and sky.

I chose this painting by  Paul Cézanne for two reasons. The first reason is that I was able to tell what kind of mood  Cézanne  was in while he painted this . He must have been depressed about his life and thinking about death during this time. The other reason I chose this painting of his is because it is unique to have the subjects of the painting appear so close to the viewer, instead of being further back in the painting. The skulls take up most of the painting, and there is not much else surrounding them. 

I enjoyed exploring Paul Cézanne's artwork. He drew nudes, landscapes, and still lifes. I appreciated the different styles of paintings and sketches as well. Cézanne sketched with graphite, painted oil canvases, and even used water colors. I chose this particular painting Forest 1890-92 because I enjoyed Cézanne's use of color.  His use of color is very strategic. The tree trunks are the darkest part of the piece, and his use of yellow and light green helps to draw light onto the canvas. Paul's different brush strokes add to the texture of the grass, sky, and trees within the piece. This painting also has proper composition that follows the rule of thirds. The main tree which is the focal point of the painting is not placed directly in the center of the piece. Overall, I thought this piece was truly well done. 

Title: Les Joueurs de Cartes (The Card Players) Created By: Paul Cezanne Written By: Madison Herley I choose the painting "Les Joueurs de Cartes" which can translate into the card players created by, Paul Cezanne. I found myself drawn to this painting because I thought it was a very different painting from the other paintings he has created in the past. A lot of the other paintings were still life paintings such as fruit, which I didn't find that interesting. In addition, I choose this particular painting because I thought it  looked as if nothing was preplanned and Cezanne just found these two bed in a bar and started to paint them in there natural habit. If that was that case, that is very admiring because it shows that the painter Cezanne can paint anything that he sees and he doesn't need a model to do so. Lastly, I found this painting well done because both men are looking down at there cards instead of staring at the painter which is usually what i...

Paul Cezanne created this paining in 1901 called Pyramid of Skulls. In research it is said that he started this painting during a dark period of his life and beset by troubling events. " Cézanne frequently alluded to mortality in his letters: "For me, life has begun to be deathly monotonous"; "As for me, I'm old. I won't have time to express myself"; and "I might as well be dead.""   I really enjoy this painting mostly for the fact that it expressing more than just a pyramid of skulls but its expressing what he had been feeling at he time. No matter what Skulls structures will always be unique and I found that his ways of making them look so real amazes me. 

I chose this picture because it is such a casual thing to do, to play cards and drink in a bar or tavern, but yet at one point this was one of the most expensive paintings ever sold for $250 million. I also like how you can tell that they are men but yet their faces are not distinguished so It can be almost any one.

"The Blue Vase" is a beautiful painting by Paul Cezanne from the late 1800s. Cezanne's goal for this piece was to focus on the regulation in color. Many artists would paint flowers in bloom, but Cezanne's unique views and ideas caused him to do the opposite. Cezanne's other goal for this painting was to extend his study of the effect of light on objects and the variations in color outcome. I chose this painting because the floral theme is unlike many of his other paintings of fruit. I enjoyed how he did not fully abandon his usual fruit theme by including three apples on the table next to the vase.

Paul Cezanne was a Post-impressionist who have inspired many artists. According to MoMA, some believed that Cezanne formed the bridge between late Impressionism and early Cubism. This painting proves that point, if you look closer at the painting you can see how Cezanne painted in small rectangles instead of lines like ordinary artists would. I chose this painting because the orange building caught my attention. I found it interesting how Cezanne centered the building between the blue sky and the dark trees. 

I actually liked Paul Cezanne's work a lot. I liked the style how a lot of his paintings almost have their own blocks or sections of color. The painting I liked specifically was Pont de Maincy. My favorite part of this painting and the reason I liked it more than the rest of his work is because of the reflection in the pond. Like I said, everything looks blocky and the borders of the colors are very defined, but in the water he takes on another style of painting. Everything seems to flows better and is more organic.

In the United Kingdom 1867, Paul Cezanne created the painting "The Abduction". Cezanne was tormented by Abduction, rape, murder. However, Cezanne paintings contain a common theme of violence, eroticism and romantic fantasy. There's many theories on about this specific painting. The first theory is Hercules and Alcestis whom he rescued from the under world. Another theory is the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto as recounted in Ovid's metamorphoses.

Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century. This is a picture of Mont Sainte-Victoire painted by Cézanne in southern France. I like this picture he painted especially all the shades of color that he used. Both the light and the colors of the painting give the impression of a pattern that is not imposed on nature but is there naturally.

Paul Cezanne was a post- impressionist who mostly preferred to work inside with darker shades and used thick/heavy brushstrokes. However once he met  Camille Pissarro, an impressionist painter, he occasionally began to bring his work outside and paint nature. I picked this painting from 1876 because it is a beautiful outside painting of  Jas de Bouffan  , the  estate on the outskirts of Aix-en-Provence which was owned by his father. 

  Paul Cezanne's paintings are very dark compared to other artists we have looked at recently. He chooses darker shades and the colors blend together. The reason I chose The Card Players is because it looks as though these are two high class men in a bar or restaurant. A lot of the other paintings I saw of him are not of people but of objects. 

Cezanne paints in darker shades. This painting has some oddly shaped bottles that are not perfectly symmetrical. The bottles also looks shiny. I like the details in the fabric. In comparison to Gauguin, there aren't as many bright colors.

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