Joseph William Turner and Pablo Picasso
Gabriel Malinowski Art II, Period 4 May 16, 2019 Part 1: History Pablo Picasso The first of the two artists I received is Pablo Picasso. Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 and died on April 8, 1973. He was born in Spain and he grew up learning to draw figures and paint from lessons from his father. Picasso had many different “eras” throughout his lifetime, including his Blue Era, Red Era, African Art and Primitivism, Cubism and Surrealism. The medium he known most for is his paint, but also liked to use clay and scraps in his sculptures. Picasso’s main influence on the art world is through his Analytic Cubism and belief in the freedom of art, meaning anything can be art. You can see in a lot of his paintings use abstract techniques with sometimes very few colors or very many colors. One could say he influenced modern art, as you can draw similarities between his works and works that are considered modern. Many of his pieces are also held at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Joseph William Turner The second artist I received is Joseph William Turner (abv. J. M. W. Turner). Turner was born on April 23, 1775 in London and died on December 19, 1851 also in London. Turner was born into a lower-middle class family, and was a child prodigy. By age 14 he was already enrolling into the Royal Academy of Arts. His style is very “classical” meaning it has a very washed feel, many of his colors were blended and objects were hazily able to be seen. Turner used mostly watercolors, which obviously made it easier to blend his colors. A lot of his paintings and watercolors are seascapes with boats. Most of his artworks are catalogued in the Tate Gallery in London. Turner’s art can be considered Romantic, as it’s part of the Romanticism Era, spanning from 1800 to 1850. His impact on the art world are specific to being a founding member of English watercolor sea landscapes and romanticism. Part 2: Style Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso painted many paintings that would be considered realistic paintings, but his most famous style is analytic cubism, is a very abstract style of painting. For Picasso’s analytic cubism he would identify the contrasts of light and dark in order to “cube” in the colors. Picasso would often stand in different positions to gain a different perspective and create strict polygons. His brush strokes never followed any rules. For example many of his paintings a viewer is able to see his stokes and how they are sometimes parallel, perpendicular, or even diagonal. His strokes are definitely not consistent. He also used a style known as Impasto, which is the use of thick paint in order to create an effect of topography. In summary, Picasso did not follow many rules and paintings were very abstract. Joseph William Turner The first thing to mention about Turner’s art is his use of bright and white colors. He was often criticized for using bright colors, at the time dark was the popularity. Turner would paint large areas very fast with a loaded and hard brush. He was also a man of risk because he did not underdraw, meaning he did not use pencil to outline his shapes. This is mainly because of his long research in watercolor, where he learned to not use pencil. Part 3: Artworks Pablo Picasso This piece by Picasso is called Mediterranean Landscape and was painted in 1953. Picasso uses a lot of defined shapes and many bright colors. The piece also has unusual perspectives and points of view, like the roof of the red building tilting towards the middle, but the small overhang next to it point up towards the edge of the paper. The sidewalks of this seascape are mostly triangles, in fact there are a lot of triangles in this piece. This could artwork is a good example cubism because of its abstract and defined shapes. Cubism does not deter Picasso from shading, because he still does here, there are shadows in the water and lighter areas on the top of objects. Joseph William Turner This painting is called Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth and is made with oil paints. It was exhibited in 1842. This piece is a great summary of his style, his paints are very washed and mixed, one could say abstract. This style is very different, however, from Picasso’s abstract. Here there is no defined shape, if you didn’t know the title, you probably wouldn’t even see the steamboat in the middle of the painting. The art can be described as a vortex, with spirals spiraling towards the middle. It is said that the meaning of the painting is “humankind’s futile efforts to combat the forces of nature.” Bibliography Khan Academy (2015) Who is JMW Turner? Khan Academy. www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticism/england-constable-turner/a/who-is-jmw-turner The Art Story Contributors (2016, January 15) Joseph Mallord William Turner. The Art Story Contributors. https://www.theartstory.org/artist-turner-jmw.htm Biography.com Editors. (2014, April 2) Pablo Picasso Biography. The Biography.com Website. https://www.biography.com/artist/pablo-picasso The Art Story Contributors. (2011, November 22). Pablo Picasso Artist Overview and Analysis. The Art Story Contributors. https://www.theartstory.org/artist-picasso-pablo.htm Pablopicasso.org. (2009). Mediterranean Landscape. Pablopicasso.org https://www.pablopicasso.org/mediterranean-landscape.jsp Tate. Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth. Tate https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-snow-storm-steam-boat-off-a-harbours-mouth-n00530
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