Neoclassicism Case

Neoclassicism

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Introduction

Classicism majors in expressions that feature classical antiquity. It reserves a formal and conservatism theme in its lack of rhythmic movement depiction, or specific emphasis on bodily features. Neoclassicism on the other hand is a theme of art, music, drama, theatre, architecture, and decorative works depicting rhythmic movements drawn from the Western classical art and culture.

Pablo Picasso's muse

He was born on October 25 1881, in Malaga, Spain where he learnt and went to college. He is well known for his emphasis on classicism in the early 1900, experimenting with this theme over a long period of time. He sometimes introduced modernism in some of his pieces featured around 1930s. At times, he would try to merge two themes in the same piece depicting his talented skill in both classical art and a modern European style of painting. We call this neoclassicism. While in Paris, he met with the two siblings Leo and Gertrude, who were of American descent. They liked his work and often collected his paintings in their Saturday nights salon for exhibition. Picasso let them keep his work, which later led Gertrude to become his patron.

Through his father, Don Jose Ruiz Blasco, Pablo Picasso learnt his initial skills, and got exposure since his father would take on the duty of teaching him from the age of five. His father was a painter and a professor at a local school teaching art and crafts. He taught Pablo his skills, concentrated on Pablo's classical art education giving up his art career to teach Pablo, and gave him his equipment when he found Pablo having completed a painting of a pigeon that his father had started. His father would be thought to have introduced Picasso to Classicism at that tender age. Don Jose continued painting however (Sateren, 2006). He influenced and exposed Pablo to many more art forms during their stay in Spain due to his many acquaintances in art school and through exhibitions.

Picasso's classical art

We shall discuss the neoclassicism theme that is portrayed in Picasso's art forms, from culinary art to paintings.

The fall of the First World War marked a change in his ideas to traditional styles. Pablo began a new way of expressing his pieces in a manner more recognized as Italian classical art, where he would employ minotaurs, fauns, and centaurs within his style. He began to depict images inspired by motherhood beginning 1914 to the early 1920s. Many felt that his style was inspired by the birth of his first born child, Paulo, in 1921, because of a famous painting he called 'woman in white'. In this piece, he shows classical technique in a painting inclusive of a woman dressed in white, with tousled hair and looking quite voluptuous. In yet another painting, he makes a piece of a nude woman standing by the sea with her arms stretched upwards with a swollen body. Her figure seemingly rearranged to look quite horrid. The latter re-introduces neoclassicism as a field that Pablo experimented with frequently during his scholarly years in Paris.

Pablo Picasso's Neoclassicism

Pablo visited Paris for the first time with his friend Carlos Casagemas at the age of nineteen. Here he lived with a friend, Max Jacob for a while before Carlos passed away. Pablo's friend, Soler ,assisted him publish his first magazine, the Arte Joven, fully illustrating his first edition, marking the time when he started signing his paintings as Picasso instead of using his full names, Pablo Ruiz y Picasso. His early works are recognized as having been influenced by his family; the father's exposure and the death of his younger sister at the age of four. He is believed to have started his real work and career around 1894 when made a painting called 'First communion' at the age of fourteen depicting his father and his younger sister, Lola standing at a podium as if receiving communion.

Timeline

A few things happened during Pablo's lifetime that inspired him to draw and paint various forms of the human form. During his childhood life, he joined art school, and his teachers sought to assist him develop his talent. They pushed him a class ahead of his usual level to advance his skill.

The introduction to classicism

During this time the art teachers in Spain had employed a system of teaching art in class where students would draw shapes and append alterations to the shapes till they resembled the intended subject of interest. This would later come to provide Pablo with the cubism style of art he developed in Paris. He also helped invent collage and assemblage while in Paris. This childhood education developed his style where he would fit objects into shapes. In the painting, Pablo leaves no emotion to be detected on the canvas. This painting depicts no emotional attachment. It therefore belongs in the classical age of Picasso's early works.

'First communion'

By Pablo Picasso

Introduction to modernism

Pablo met with a few modernistic artist and they too introduced him to new techniques, like he had previously done with the use of harlequins to depict classicism. His subjects were drawn from an early Italian form of art with use of harlequins. At times the subjects were plainly seen as grim. This was when he was experimenting with shades of blue and green. We call