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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Pieter Cornelis Mondrian was born in 1872 in Amersfoort a small town in the Netherlands near Amsterdam. Mondrian's father worked at an elementary school as a headmaster and his uncle was a successful painter. The environment that he was surrounded by helped him grow an interest towards painting, al...

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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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During this time Pollock was invited to participate in a group exhibition of work by French and American painters, including Picasso, Braque, Matisse and other established masters. ... In The She-Wolf' (1943), Pollock combined surrealist automatism with subject matter that reflects his interests in ancient sculpture, non-Western art, and the work of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. ...

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