about picasso and durer

1. Connections
project
By whitney Henderson Reilly

2. First Artist: Pablo Picasso
vPicasso moved towards abstraction and experimented with different types of
representation to space in painting. Working with Georges Braque, Picasso
created on of the most influential visual art style of the early twentieth
century-Cubism. In Cubist paintings, objects are broken apart and
reassembled in an abstract form, which then highlights the shapes and
showing them in different viewpoints in creating a collage like effect.
vPicasso abandon his normal use of perspective and instead created a
convincing three-dimensional illusion of space and to challenge viewers to
understand the way that it has been broken down into components.
vAlso when creating his work he made him different to other artist of his time
was the fact that he used his personal feelings as well as the outside world.
vWhen he unfortunately died, at the age of 91, he was then known as ‘The
father of modern art’. Till this day his work has been a major impact on the art
work that are being produced now and in the future.
v
‘Every act of
creation is first of
all an act of
destruction’
Pablo Picasso
‘Others have seen
what is and asked
why. I have seen
what could be and
asked why not’
Pablo Picasso
‘I do not see. I
find’ Pablo
Picasso

3. Second Artist: Albrecht Durer
• Durer was very first painter to be obsessed by his own image. He found his
own image startling and unforgettable.
• Durer showed such a precocious talent in drawing that he started as an
apprentice to Michael Wolgmut at the age of fifteen.
• As Durer was born in the renaissance period (the revival of European art
and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th- 16th
century) but was known as the Northern Renaissance Artist. Which was
developed in the lower countries such as Germany. He also was
apparently a symbol of the renaissance belief (the ascendancy of the
individual, relying on his own innate strength to conquer the forces of evil
and corruption.
• Whenever he created a piece of artwork he put in a logo, which made him
the first artist to put a logo on their work. With putting that on each of his
work you can clearly see that it was his and no one else's.