PICASSO
I went to Guggenheim Museum on a Sunday afternoon. The museum has great architectural work and some really wild paintings. I saw an amazing painting with great colors by Pablo Picasso called "Moulin de la Galette." This painting seemed to me to represent high-class society. Apparently, "Moulin de la Galette" was a characteristic place of entertainment. Picasso welcomed the opportunity to make human beings, and especially women as the main components of his pictures. "Moulin de la Galette" was Picasso's first painting that he made in Paris during his first visit there. It turned into a stylistic portrait. "Moulin de la Galette," reminded me of a social gathering and people having a marvelous time. Picasso's portraits reflect a variety of new stlyes and techniques with different, bright, unmixed colors. His subjects often included typical scenes of Parisian nightlife. In "Moulin de la Galette" Picasso portrays a dance hall. His mood was happy when he painted it. Picasso emphasized curving outlines in the painting by reinforcing them with thick brush strokes. It seemed to me that Picasso had no interest in
His portrait was very decorative and the color played a major role, although shapes remain fragmented and flat. It indicates that they are not to be taken at their face value. Picasso used oil on canvas in this painting and it was displayed as the museum's collection of paintings. The asymmetrical compositions sweeps up a series of faces and profiles distorted by making up and electric lights until they collide in the dark shadows with angular silhouettes painted in single strokes. It relates to the dark scenes typical of much Spanish Art at that time. Very little is drawn in this painting. Picasso used in his work a clear flat depiction of figures with the emphasis on outlines and almost monochrome coloration. He was so animated it seemed he was plugged into an electric socket. Bibliography NONE REQUIRED. I had the impression that the ladies of all classes tried to out do each other in the width of their hats, the styles and the narrowness of their waist, while the men considered themselves dishonored to been seen without hats. The sense of unreality is greatly heightened by the dark, dull tones with some light colors which over power every other color. The simplified shapes, flattened background, and skewed perspective to combine a pattern effect that suggests this scene is for the everyday world. When Picasso painted "Moulin de la Galette" he was representing the nightlife of people having a good time. It may well have inspired Picasso's choice of subject, but his interpretation with dark shadows is closer to paintings of this same dance hall by Catalan contemporaries. I've noticed a woman's face that could have an eye where the eye always is and the other on the back of her head or have hair shooting from below the eyes on a pelvis made of a series of intensely colored oval lines.
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