Picasso

Picasso was a surrealism and cubism artist.  Surrealism artists works are less violent and artistically having juxtaposition so he put theses in with his use of vibrant colours and miss placed shapes so that his pieces could have deeper meaning instead of using darker colours.

The title of this piece is called 'the head of a woman reading." It was made 1953 and the medium is paint on canvas.

Picasso uses colours like a sunrise,  orange and red. There  are also monochrome colours. He uses a dark purple and a dark brown with red, darker blue and a slightly lighter blue.  On the left side he has the yellow orange in different tones to show light and dark.  The colours are flat.  In the middle you have the white with left side being brighter and the right side is dark. It's like he us trying to balance the emotions.

Some of the lines are quite thin while some are quite thick and bold making them appear stronger.  The lines are childlike which make them space out, they are also parallel.

There are triangle, some of it has semi-circles.  It contains some geometric shapes like a trapezium.

Picasso has used a paintbrush to create lines, some jagged and some straight. The painting is a portrait of a woman with her hands folding in front of her. The lines down the middle references Matisse. The lines outline the unrealistic colours that have been randomly applied to the model's face. The face is unsymmetrical.

The painting is very abstract. It has been distorted.

This piece makes me have miss feelings about it. The brighter side of the face make me think about the woman been happy why the darker colour on the other side gives me the clue of the woman been depressed. The idea of her reading whatever is in her hand shows that she might be reliving something tragic but yet trying to stay positive and remember the good time with the use of the vibrant colour at the left side.

The painting at the bottom is an inspiration of my mask which I did  in my book with pencil and decided to redraw it but this time trying to use the same techniques and materials Picasso uses. The reason why I chose to , ink him to my idea of making an African mask is because Picasso was inspired by African masks.

The lines in my response of his work is quite jagged, bold and thin. There are curved lines.