Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Video reference to my coming up essay


This video is a very important key to my up and coming essay on Japanese Art. In my chosen essay question I want to focus mainly on Yamato-e Art, this includes the contemporary style of Yamato-e in comparison to that of 16th century. The question will be " what relevance does contemporary Japanese Painting Yamato-e have in relation to that of 16th century yamato-e?"

My Exhibition

a small bibliography

Martin Russell, Picassos War (England: Dutton, 2002)

Richardson John, Picasso Watercolours and Gouaches (London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1964)

reference for guernica by Picasso with grammar

・Painting is not done to decorate apartments, it is an offensive and defensive instrument of war against the enemy・[1] Picasso stated in referring to life. In my chosen essay topic, Picasso・s mural dedication of Guernica, I plan to show the aspects that made it so influential during the early twentieth century. This will be answered by briefly covering Picasso・s roots in life, the social setting of Guernica・s creation e.g. the political issue, a summary of it・s composition, how it touched on modernism, and finally how Picasso・s painting caught the zeitgeist of emotion released at the time.



My choice of Picasso as the Model Artist was because of admiration, for I grew up with the knowledge of his background elements and passion for art. His distinct style

of cubism with a prolific sense of the edge gave him what was needed to become a prodigy. It was at the age of only fourteen that his father Jose Ruiz Blasco bequeathed him with his pallet in awe of the astounding progress his son was making[2]. Pablo Picasso, his full name, is known to be one of the most influential artists of all time, in fact the greatest of the twentieth century. What were the extents of his study within Art and his contributions to pioneering vast avenues of the field and how did that

create a market for modernism in the early twentieth century? I shall try and address that. Picasso, the son of Maria Picasso Y Lopez and Jose Ruiz Blassco, at the end of the day was just an ordinary human being yet his miraculous achievement with Guernica was enormous.



[1] Russell Martin, Picassos War (England: Dutton, 2002), pg1.

[2] John Richardson, Picasso Watercolours and Gouaches (London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1964), pg7.