Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived in France and helped pioneer modern art. He challenged traditional perspectives in his work and drew personal feelings and the outside world. Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, and Francisco Goya influenced Picasso's experimentation with abstraction and cubism. Albrecht Durer was a Northern Renaissance artist obsessed with self-portraiture who pioneered putting signatures on works. He was influenced by meeting Jacopo de Barbari, who exposed him to new techniques in perspective, anatomy, and proportion.

1. Connections
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By whitney Henderson Reilly

2. First Artist: Pablo Picasso
vPicasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage
designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.
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.
‘As I grew older, I
realized that it was
much better to insist
on the genuine forms of
nature, for simplicity
is the greatest
adornment of art’
Durer
‘What beauty is, I know
not, though it adheres to
many things’ Durer
‘Why has God given me
such magnificent talent?
It is a curse as well as a
great blessing’ Durer

4. What Influenced Picasso?
• Picasso 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.
• Here is a few artists that influenced Picasso’s work Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Francisco Goya.
They were all such great artists that Picasso got inspired by the way that they create each of their
works.
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5. What Influenced Durer?
• His father was a creative person and got him into goldsmith, but he preferred drawing and
wanted to continue that as he was so full of his self.
• You could say that Durer himself influenced the way that he created his work as his first
inspiration was actually his self.
• The Venetian artist Jacopo de Barbari, whom Durer had met in Venice, came to Nuremberg
for a while in 1500. With meeting this artist he was inspired by the new development in
perspective, anatomy and proportion, from which Durer began his own studies.

6. What Influenced Durer?
• His father was a creative person and got him into goldsmith, but he preferred drawing and
wanted to continue that as he was so full of his self.
• You could say that Durer himself influenced the way that he created his work as his first
inspiration was actually his self.
• The Venetian artist Jacopo de Barbari, whom Durer had met in Venice, came to Nuremberg
for a while in 1500. With meeting this artist he was inspired by the new development in
perspective, anatomy and proportion, from which Durer began his own studies.