Artists such as Henri Toulouse Latrec, Edvard Munch, and Pablo Picasso were few among the many who chose to show the effects of urbanism on society as individuals and as a whole. ... Latrec's depiction of lower class living was considered risqué, crude and often vulgar but would greatly influence many future artists such as the famed Pablo Picasso. Pablo was born in 1881 to a poor family in Maglia, Spain. The son of an art teacher Picasso's talent was recognized at an early age. ... Like Latrec, Picasso depicts a low class woman sitting solitary and alone in his "Meloncha...

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Pablo Picasso painted the first two works of art that I liked. ... Picasso expresses and symbolizes the image of a lower class woman with a melancholy palette of blues. ... Picasso has embodied his subject so much and has created so much strong emotion that it makes her seem poetic, almost spiritual. The second painting of Picasso's that I admired was the Lobster and Cat. Unlike the woman ironing this obviously wasn't painted during the same period, but for some reason it caught my eye just as much as any other Picasso. ...

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Cubism is an art form derived from modernism and said to be invented by Pablo Picasso who invented a new style of painting, focusing mainly on line rather than color. Picassos" art changed radically around 1907, when he decided to incorporate some stylistic elements of African sculpture into his painting. Picassos" Les Demoiselles D"Arignon does violence to the human form by means of radical simplifications, arbitrary and harsh color combinations, and extreme distortions of human anatomy and proportions. ...

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The idea of simultaneity, geometricity, and passage being integrated into art started just before the 20th century. This style of art was, however, just an idea and didn't become an art form until the early 20th century, in which it came to be known as Cubism. Cubism was the first type of abstract a...

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Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian native, has been quite an inspirational artist throughout history. Kandinsky was a pioneer painter of abstract masterpieces. His paintings are on display in many museums around the world, including the infamous Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. ...

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