Picasso and Matisse Musical Themes

Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José

Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de

los Remedios Crispiniano de la

Santísima Trinidad, a series of names

honoring various saints and relatives. Added to

these were Ruiz and Picasso, for his father

and mother, respectively, as per

Spanish law.

Cubism is the 20th century art movement that emphasizes

structure and design. Three-dimensional objects are pictured from many different viewpoints at the same time.

Cubism characteristics/goals:• Away from mere observation abstraction• Away from form flattened shapes• Away from perspective invented space• Away from optical color expressive color• Away from Renaissance naturalism the

free use of elements and principles of art/design

• Collage is the process of pasting bits of newspapers, ribbons and other objects onto paper or canvas. The term "collage" was coined by Picasso and Braque.

• Picasso created collages from 1907 to 1914. Although collage is attributed as an extension of sorts to the artist's works done in Cubist style, neither Picasso nor Braque ever indicated what motivated them to begin pasting bits of newspaper and other found objects onto their canvases.

• From 1912 to 1914, Synthetic Cubist (collage) works emerged from Picasso's canvases. During this time, the artists toyed with the traditional flat picture plane, incorporating both two- and three-dimensional elements, but after 1914 neither Picasso nor Braque worked in collage again.

Pablo Picasso

http://www.artbabble.org/video/moma/picasso-guitars-1912-1914-picassos-collage-materials

Henri Matisse

Abstract: style of art that is based on something real and simplified or altered by the

artist to emphasize the form

rather than the subject matter.Ways to Abstract:• Simplify• Eliminate• Exaggerate• Distort