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Artistas y Arte Populares. La Cultura – Unidad 4. Pablo Picasso - Spain. One of the greatest and most influential artists of 20 th century. Co-founder of Cubism His paintings were broken into 3 periods Blue Period Rose Period Cubism Painted in surrealism too.
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Artistas y Arte Populares La Cultura – Unidad 4
Pablo Picasso - Spain • One of the greatest and most influential artists of 20th century. • Co-founder of Cubism • His paintings were broken into 3 periods • Blue Period • Rose Period • Cubism • Painted in surrealism too.
Picasso’s Blue Period – 1901-1904 • Many paintings were this color because he was lonely and depressed about a close friend’s death. • Most famous pieces were Blue Nude, La Vie & The Old Guitarist.
Picasso’s Rose Period – 1905-1907 • Paintings were now with warmer colors like beige, pink and red because he was in love with a beautiful model. • His most famous paintings from this time include Family at Saltimbanques,Gertrude Steinand Two Nudes.
Picasso’s Cubism Period • Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a chilling depiction of five beige figures, prostitutes, abstracted and distorted with sharp geometric features and stark blotches of blues, greens and grays. • considered the precursor and inspiration of Cubism.
Spanish Civil War Influence • Picasso's greatest surrealist painting, one of the great paintings of all time, was completed in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. • On April 26, 1937, German bombers had an aerial attack on the Basque town of Guernica. • Outraged by the bombing and the inhumanity of war, Picasso painted Guernica shortly thereafter, a surrealist testament to the horrors of war in black, white and grays. • Guernica remains one of the most moving and powerful antiwar paintings in history.
Frida Kahlo - Mexico • Considered one of Mexico's greatest artists, Frida Kahlo began painting after she was severely injured in a bus accident. • Kahlo later became politically active and married fellow communist artist Diego Rivera, twice. • Famous for painting her many personal tragedies such as miscarriages. Also, painted several self-portraits.
Diego Rivera - Mexico • Inspired by the political ideals of the Mexican Revolution (1914-15) & the Russian Revolution (1917), he wanted to make art that reflected the lives of the working class and native peoples of Mexico. • Was married to Frida Kahlo twice. • Painted murals on several public buildings – some of which were controversial.