art
A couple of weeks ago I embarked on a journey to the Currier gallery of art. Myself and a few students from our class were on a mission to view the art they were displaying at the time. It was an interesting trip to say the least. When we entered the building I noticed a small café, my friends would not let me enjoy the Irish cream latte I wanted so bad. Anyway, back to our journey, we entered the museum and started to just look around, this was not my first time in a museum however I was extremely disappointed in this particular museum. This past summer I visited the Boston museum of fine art, Boston’s museum was so much larger, I expected the Currier to smaller then Boston but I did not think they would be that small. After looking at all of the art they had on display I chose to write about a very popular painting but a well-known artist. Pablo Picasso’s “women seated in chair” this piece is known though out the whole wo . . .
The painting has a 3 dimensional look to it created by oil paint that is placed on in drops. The museum acquired it in 1953 as an anonymous gift. The drops of oil stick out a little less then an inch from the surface. The distorted image represents his feelings of being trapped. Picasso is a more modern painter then what we studied until a few weeks ago, I feel Picasso really expresses him self in his work. The choice of colors are complementary, they all work well, It creates the visual effect that is appealing to the eye. The chair that the women are seated in presents a vertical aspect that coincides with the random lines from the red and green background. I selected this piece after looking at almost everything in the museum. We were not misbehaving at all and they followed us like we were criminals. Every one else in my group had already picked a work and I was stuck, nothing stood out to me until I saw the Picasso. All most all art is expressive, that is the idea however Picasso is one of the few I understand when I am looking at it. Paris was an uncomfortable place during the war. The painting is larger then I thought I would estimate that it is four and a half feet tall and three and a half feet wide. It was one of the last pieces we looked at and I hadn’t picked one to write about yet, nothing in there really struck me until I saw that. The painting was completed in 1941; it is created with oil on canvas.
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