An Analysis Of Pablo Picasso's Cubism

Pablo Picasso was the greatest painter of the 20th century because of his aid in the creation of Cubism. Picasso was a very influential artist not only in his time period but also decades after he died. When Picasso was a young boy, his mother said to him, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” So Picasso became one of the greatest painters in history. Picasso had a very unusual interest in art at a young age. His father noticed his interest and, being an art teacher himself, taught Picasso how to draw and paint. By the time he was thirteen, Picasso had already passed the level at which his father was at with painting and drawing. Unfortunately, schoolwork wasn 't his favorite thing …show more content…
Cubism is a move in art that highlighted geometrical illustrations of natural forms. Analytical Cubism is one of the two major subdivisions of the artistic movement of Cubism, which mainly concentrated on the colors grey, blue, and ochre. Rather than putting an emphasis on color, artists focused more on forms such as a cylinder, sphere, and a cone to represent the natural world. Picasso and another artist named Georges Braque concentrated more on abstraction, which leaves only enough signs of the real world to supply a tension between the actuality outside the painting and the complicated reflection on visual language within the frame, see Ma Jolie …show more content…
Surrealist Theory was based on an overly simplified understanding of the writings of Sigmund Freud recreated for the use of poets and visual artists. Picasso 's Woman with Flower (1932) is a portrait of Marie-Therese, wry and contorted in the manner of Surrealism. The Surrealism movement was thriving in strength and acceptance at the time, and even Picasso couldn 't really avoid being changed by this group of Parisian artists. During the 1930s, the mentor replaced the jester as a common interpretation of his work. His use of the mentor came partly from his contact with the surrealists, who sometimes used it as their symbol, and it appears in Picasso 's Guernica. Picasso 's most famous work is his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the war, which expresses the cruelty, brutality and misery of war. Asked to explain its symbolism, Picasso said, “It isn 't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand