The 20th century embraced many different art movements and introduced the works of many new recognized artists. Two of these artists can be familiarized as Pablo Picasso and Willem do Kooning. Each artist demonstrated a unique style based on the demands of the time period they painted in. Two works executed by Picasso and de Kooning during their individual eras are Picasso's "Jeune Fille a la Mandoline" (1910) and de Kooning's "Woman I" (1950-52). These two pieces can be compared and contrasted through the elements and principles of design as well as through the movement they were created in and the artists who brought them to life.
             Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on October 25th, 1881 in Malaga and his exceptional talent was seen at an early age. He worked for several years painting under the tuition of his father and made his first debut as an artist in 1893. By 1897 his talent was so exceptional that he was admitted to painting class at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. After winning several awards and first class recognition from the critics, Picasso settled down in Paris by 1904. One of Picasso's greatest recognized moments in history in the beginning of Cubism with "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". Picasso created other major pieces of famous art work including "The Red Chair" (1931), "Celestina" (1904), "The Studio" (1928), and "Guernica" (1937). Picasso died April 8th, 1973 at his villa in Mougins.
             It is undisputed that Picasso's greatest achievement was in Cubism which can be described as an early 20th century way of painting and sculpting in which a subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms without realistic detail, stressing abstract form at the expense of other pictoral elements largely by the use of intersecting often transparent cubes and cones. Cubist painters were not bound to copying form, texture, colour and space; instead they presented a new reality in paintings that depicted radically fragmented ...