Pablo Picasso was also known as Pablo Ruiz y Picasso. He was born
on October 25 in the year 1881. Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, poet,
stage designer, and a playwright. He was one of the most famous artists of the
20th century because of his famous cubism art. He showed a passion
for art at an early age and as stated from researching his first words were
“piz, piz” which is short for lapiz the Spanish word for pencil. His father
started training him in arts around the age of seven.
His career is known to start in the year 1894
and rocketed when he created a piece called “The First Communion” (1986) which
depicts his sister, Lola who died at a young age of diphtheria. A “blue period”
as people would call is was a time period between 1901-1904 in which Picasso’s
painting were characterized as more of somber/sad shadings of blues and greens
and other gloomy shades. He went through a series of different styled paintings
and sculptors, etc. etc. through his life and died in the year 1973 on April 3rd.
His wife Jacqueline Roque was very upset by his death and ended up killing
herself by gunshot in 1986 at the age of 59.
Yves Tanguy was born in Paris, France in the year 1900 on January
5. Tanguy was career started when his friend introduced him to a group of
surrealist artist in 1924. After that he quickly developed his own unique
paintings and was given a contract to paint at least 12 paintings a year by
Andre Breton. Sadly, he did not meet the needs because of his income and
painted less and only came up with 8 pieces of art. Tanguy died of a fatal
stroke in the year 1955 at Woodbury. His body was cremated and his ashes were
saved until his wife died in 1963. After that his ashes were scattered on a
beach by his friend Pierre Matisse.
Artist’s Name: Pablo Picasso
Title: Girl Before A mirror
Date: 1932
Description: A woman standing in front of a mirror looking at her
reflection which seems to be the darker side of her from the interpretation of
darker shades.
Analysis: This painting has many shapes and different colors which
clearly forms a woman and her reflection in the mirror. It shows depth and much
detail and has a smart choice of colors that create a lot of detail.
Interpretation: In my opinion Picasso does go with his similar
style of odd paintings but this is one my favorites. I feel as if it shows that
you can see your true colors through a second world. And in this painting the
woman’s darker side is showing through the mirror. She seems to be more gloomy
and sad.
Judgement: I really love this piece, it shows true honesty. The use
of color is smart and shows expresses the feeling that you get from viewing this
painting. From my point of view I feel as if it interprets showing the real
you. People cover their true feelings with smiles and “masks” every day and I feel
like he shows that in this painting because it might be that the woman is not truly
happy.
Artist’s Name: Yves Tanguy
Title: The Rapidity of Sleep
Date: 1945
Description: A series of objects on the ground with the same color
shades of white and red, with dreamy clouds at the top of the painting.
Analysis: This piece shows a lot of detail with the random objects
at the bottom and is almost similar to a dream sequence as if you were really
sleeping and seeing this in your dreams. The first thing that captures your eye
is the different shaped and sized objects that seemed to be spread out across
the ground.
Interpretation: Though it is somewhat similar to his other styled
painting Tanguy still expresses his uniqueness of art in all of his painting
but this one is also another one of my favorites. It does represent somewhat of
a dream that you would have and it is very often that you would see random
objects in your sleep like this.
Judgement: I do really like this piece. It’s almost as if he
literally woke up from his sleep and painted what he dreamt about, which makes
me wonder if a lot of his painting came from his sleep as if he was trying to
remember the world that he sees in his sleep.
