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20 th Century Masters 14. What does it take to be a master artist?. Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso, Guernica , 1937. Oil on canvas, 349 x 776 cm, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid. Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist , 1903-04. Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.
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20th Century Masters 14. What does it take to be a master artist?
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. Oil on canvas, 349 x 776 cm, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.
Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist, 1903-04. Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.
Pablo Picasso, Family of Saltimbanques, 1905. Oil on canvas, 218.8 x 229.6 cm, National Gallery of Art.
Pablo Picasso, Les Desmoiselles D’Avignon, 1907. Oil on canvas, 243.9 x 233.7 cm, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York.
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Ambrose Vollard, 1910. Oil on canvas, 92 x 65 cm, Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow.
Pablo Picasso, The Three Musicians, 1921. Oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York.
Henri Matisse, The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room), 1908 Oil on canvas, 180 x 220 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Henri Matisse, Fruit and Coffee Pot, 1898 Oil on canvas, 38.5 x 46.5 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat, 1905 Oil on canvas, 79.4 x 59.7 cm, San Francisco Museum of Art
Henri Matisse, La Danse I, 1909 Oil on canvas, 2604 x 390 cm, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
Henri Matisse, Odalisque in Red Trousers, c. 1924-25 Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris.
Henri Matisse, from Jazz series, 1943 Cut paper and gouche
Pablo Picasso Guernica 1937 Henri Matisse The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) 1908
Pablo Picasso Guernica 1937 • What is this artwork about? • When this painting was made, most people would have been aware that the small Spanish village of Guernica was bombed by Italian and German warplanes. The Spanish government believed the village contained anti-Fascist rebel fighters. • Please list what you see. • What styles and techniques did Picasso use to show this to you? • What do you think Picasso is trying to communicate? • Did he do a good job of communicating it? (Is this a good artwork?)Why?