Artist Influence – Pablo Picasso

Posted on 14/01/2015 Updated on 13/01/2015

Pablo Picasso is one of the famous names in the art world, and is recognised for his role in the avant-garde. Picasso is another artist who forged the way for future artists, with his many methods of painting and styles of paintings.

One of Picasso’s paintings which I really enjoy is his portrait of the art dealer Ambroise Vollard, which Picasso painted in his Cubism style. The reason which I enjoy this painting is the way in which Picasso tries to deconstruct/fragment reality while keeping the form of the human figure. This is similar in what I’m trying to do in my own project, which is to twist reality in creating my own form of it; which I believe is what Picasso was trying to do with Cubism.

Picasso created Cubism to show the world a different way of viewing reality, in which he created many paintings which included a cube style, hence Cubism. Picasso and the other members of the avant-garde, created many different forms of painting, styles of painting, ways of how to paint, and ways of how to look at reality as well as paintings.

The text above is a mix of my own opinion and research of Pablo Picasso.

Information and pictures found via the content below:

Picasso

In-text: (Elgar, Maillard and Scarfe, 1956)

Bibliography: Elgar, F., Maillard, R. and Scarfe, F. (1956). Picasso. London: Thames and Hudson.