A Facebook Posting that still interests me
My son Calum on Facebook earlier this month:
"The point is to occupy Facebook with art, breaking up the tense climate on FB. Whoever "likes" this post will be given an artist and has to post a piece by that artist, along with this text"
"The point is to occupy Facebook with art, breaking up the tense climate on FB. Whoever "likes" this post will be given an artist and has to post a piece by that artist, along with this text"
I was given Picasso of cubism fame, who at birth was named Pablo Diego
José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano
de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y .Picasso, I have long liked Picasso
because of his early formal training and his maturing sense of extending
the genre.
"In addition to academic classicism, Picasso's student work manifested a less idealized manner of representation in genre subjects and portraiture. The artist executed many family portraits at this time and depictions of local figures such as an old sailor named Salmerón (The Old Fisherman), who was hired as a model by Picasso's wealthy uncle in Málaga. In Madrid Picasso's art was also shaped by visits to the Prado, where he studied works by Spanish old masters Velázquez and Ribera, as well as by El Greco (the latter's stylized mannerisms would soon play an important role in Picasso's work). During this period Picasso produced several large-scale pictures on religious and allegorical themes, which appeared in official exhibitions."
The Old Fisherman (above) was painted when he was fourteen years old and though a 'less idealized manner -- than academic classicism' it still comes across to today's average viewer as classic painting and seems far from his bolder forays into the possibilities of changing our very perspectives of art and its relation to realism such as "Girl Before A Mirror painted when he was 51.
"In addition to academic classicism, Picasso's student work manifested a less idealized manner of representation in genre subjects and portraiture. The artist executed many family portraits at this time and depictions of local figures such as an old sailor named Salmerón (The Old Fisherman), who was hired as a model by Picasso's wealthy uncle in Málaga. In Madrid Picasso's art was also shaped by visits to the Prado, where he studied works by Spanish old masters Velázquez and Ribera, as well as by El Greco (the latter's stylized mannerisms would soon play an important role in Picasso's work). During this period Picasso produced several large-scale pictures on religious and allegorical themes, which appeared in official exhibitions."
The Old Fisherman (above) was painted when he was fourteen years old and though a 'less idealized manner -- than academic classicism' it still comes across to today's average viewer as classic painting and seems far from his bolder forays into the possibilities of changing our very perspectives of art and its relation to realism such as "Girl Before A Mirror painted when he was 51.
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