Picasso Pablo Part one

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973). Pablo Picasso, one of the most recognized figures of the 20th century art who co-created such styles as Cubism and Surrealism, was also among most innovative, influential, and prolific artists of all time. He was a Spanish  painter, sculptor,print maker, ceramicist, and stage designer  

Source: Wikipedia

It is said that he brought a huge revolution in great art work through his paintings , sculptures and drawings.Moreover , his innovation conquered all painters that no painter has such big audience like he does. 

     

               His success in his early work through Blue period (1901-1904) and Rose period (1904-1906) led him to establish another success that was Cubism (1907-1911). It was pioneered by George Barque and Pablo Picasso. By 1911 Picasso was recognized as the inventor of Cubism, while Braque’s importance and precedence was argued later,

Cubism:  In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. ( Wikipedia/ Cubism)

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, considered to be a major step towards the founding of the Cubist movement.

His aim was to develop a new way of seeing that lead to new idea and innovations. 

Picasso's Blue Period: He painted them in shades of blue and blue-green , only occasionally warmed by other colors. Its was some of his most popular work although he found difficulty in selling them at first. 

Picasso was influenced by a journey through Spain and by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas. 

 Although Picasso himself later recalled, "I started painting in blue when I learned of Casagemas's death",

Source : Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso's_Blue_Period

 

Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist (1903)

 

 Two sisters ( The Meeting)

            We believe that every color associates with the nature of emotions like red color associates with warm emotion. Likely to nature blue associates with melancholy , depression and depth of some emotion. In all of Picasso's Blue Periods paintings, he has showed grieve and depth of his emotions so beautifully. His paintings shows that every emotion can be shown in any kind of art work whether its a painting on canvas or a simple art work. The people he painted have an element of pathos and melodrama.

 Self Portrait (shows him wearing a dark black coat)

Rose Period: The Rose Period comes from the time when the style of Pablo Picasso's painting used cheerful orange and pink colors in contrast to the cool, somber tones of the previous Blue Period. 

                                               Pablo Picasso was a creature of the 19th century. Although he spent most of his life in the 20th century, his work and thinking would remain a product of 19th century romanticism. Romanticism refers to a cultural movement that started at the end of the 18th century, a century that was dominated by the Enlightenment. Enlightenment resulted from scientific advances and favored a climate of reason and rationalization.

Pablo Picasso began to develop a highly romantic style of painting in 1899, which ended in 1901, after his close friendCarlos Casagemas had committed suicide. The ensuing Blue Period would be characterized by resignation and mourning and consists of downbeat portraits of the underprivileged of society, paintings in which the color blue dominates.Then, in 1904, Picasso's work regains its romantic quality in a series of paintings in warmer colors, many of them in the color pink.
Source:http://pablo-picasso.paintings.name/rose-period/


This painting called La Famille de 
This painting shows much cheering and happy colors than his early paintings from blue period. The colors used in it are warmer and the title of this painting itself shows that its a happy people in an aspect or other, 

Pablo Picasso Self Portrait 1907

This self portrait is totally different from the self portrait he painted in his Blue Period. The colors are much warmer in it gives a feeling of cheer and comfort. 

Ways of Seeing
John Berger

In his book Ways of Seeing, John Berger brings up several interesting points regarding the cognition of art. According to him, we no longer comprehend visual images as merely what we see in front of us. Rather, our view of the images is concealed by that which we already know – the image’s reputation and value, the artist’s other works, the context of the art, and the many reproductions created of the image. This, Berger argues, falsifies the concept of art; it is practically impossible for adults to restore the “innocence” with which a child looks at a visual image.

Berger’s theories can be applied to any type of visual images, including modern art. When visiting the Museum of Modern Art, one should keep in mind that a piece of art is meant to be looked at and explored with no conceptualized views. Even if a painting is extremely famous, seeing it “live” is equivalent to seeing it for the first time. The experience of being a museum-goer isn’t about the value of the art one is looking it nor is it about the meaning the painting is “supposed” to have. One should walk into any museum with an extremely open mind and a willingness to feel.

It is not only important to have an open mind, but also to be confident one’s own perception when experiencing art. This way, the experience and the discussions become more enjoyable, honest, and meaningful.

I'm deeply thankful to John Berger for pointing my attention to:

·         A different meaning that word and our own emotions bring to the art piece.

·         Status and power that content of classical European oil paintings ensured to the owner;

·         Gender issues and portrayal of the female body (I love how Berger draws a clear line between terms 'nude' and 'naked');

·         “An analysis of glamour as an invention of industrial society in modern times during which 'The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right. Yet the existing social conditions make the individual feel powerless” (p.148). And I'm pretty sure; no one ever forgot to show this book to people in advertising business.

In a world full of reproductions, the currency of art (as much as the currency of the human body) is so much a part of our culture that we barely notice it – except, perhaps, when a Damien Hurst is bought for millions of pounds during the beginnings of a credit crunch. Berger is a political reminder of what that exchange means. Put it on the school curriculum! Every adolescent should read it.

Good girl Vs. Bad girl

Bad girl:  A bad girl is the girl that is not afraid of anything. What is going on in their family or personal life, they never give a thought about it. They like to enjoy life to the fullest with every single trick that make them excited and most wanting. They mostly like to back bite with their girl friends about their other girl friends. They do not care about their image much with whom and where they are sitting, what kind of clothes they are wearing because being comfortable feels everything to them. Other's harsh point of views do not bother them but anyhow they want to get into a fight to present them as a huge drama queen. They like to brag about themselves and also do not care about other's girls feelings. They love to smoke.drink alcohol and party up all night with nasty and untrustworthy boys. Being in a failure matters nothing to them. I feel like they are like always in a rush and do not prefer to b calm and understanding. They are the biggest enemies of themselves because of their bad attitude no one likes to be around them so they put themselves in an alone path without any dear one's suggestion they always find it hard to make a single decision for them.

Good girl: A good girl is the girl who does not like to do those things that a bad girl does. A good girl care about her family and stay nice and welcoming to everyone.She is sincere to every kind of person around. She cares about her career and wants herself to feel confident and beautiful all the time.She is not out spoken and does not brag about any of her physical appearance. Good girls like to co-operate in order to stay away from worse conditions. Good has a good hold back on her nerves and desires 

Aspects of Experience

When we talk about experience it is all about learning, memories, confusions and just a flashback sometimes. Everyday is an experience it depends on us like how we take it. We can take it as a rough, tough day, some would like to make their every moment worth living and some will observe and find something new in every moment. And when it comes to learn from someone else's experience then yes we can learn from other's experience. It teaches us a lot and it is worth listening to someones good or tragic experience. It alarms and tells us that the mistakes like they do, we do not need to repeat them. For example: When we were in our childhood we all were used to listen to stories and fairy-tales. Even if any of them were not real, we all still got scared of those nightmares in that stories or we still applied those charming sights of fairy tales in our real. That was our childhood learning from experiencing different tales.  Apart from childhood if someone is at a big loss in his business or his in personal life and we are able to observe his life we definitely would not learn from his mistakes and experience that why and how is getting through a tough time and we would not like to be willing to repeat mistake like him and experience such a big loss like him. Other's experiences matter if we want to learn from them. It depends on us how we see and take things when we hear or see them.

                         And now the  question raises: Does learning through others experience defy the word "Experience" ? 

It might challenge experience in some aspects, depends upon what kind of experience we are having. Because experience is something practical. Like if someone is doing driving wrong and get injuries from his road accident experience and I was a spectator of his mistake then I obviously do not like to do such a thing like he did and what he made me learn and this does not defy the meaning of the word experience. But depending on someone else's experience much is not the easiest way to live a life because somethings can only be learnt when we give our all to it. And when it comes to relation between mind, body and heart experience, it does relate then because mind is the chamber of thoughts. It senses life events and tell us what is good and bad about them. When we know properties of something we tend to feel them and there comes the chamber of feelings that is our hearts. Our mind and soul learn from experience and they both let the heart to experience how does that feels.