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Before the age of 50, Pablo Picasso, the Spanish born artist had become the most well known name in modern art, with the most distinct style and eye for artistic creation. Although his art career spanned over a 7 decade period, Pablo Picasso is most known for his introduction of cubism, and modern approach to painting, which set the movements to follow in to the twentieth century.
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Image Credit 2: Abstract portrait 5 . [ONLINE] Available at: http://paintings.name/artists/marten-jansen/nouveau-totem.php. [Accessed 19 November 2014].
Picasso first emerged as a Symbolist influenced by the likes of Edvard Munch and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This tendency shaped his so-called Blue Period, in which he depicted beggars, prostitutes, and various urban misfits. In 1907, Pablo Picasso produced a painting unlike anything he or anyone else had ever painted before, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," a chilling depiction of five nude prostitutes, abstracted and distorted with sharp geometric features and stark blotches of blues, greens and greys.
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In Cubist paintings, objects are broken apart and reassembled in an abstracted form, highlighting their composite geometric shapes and depicting them from multiple, simultaneous viewpoints in order to create physics-defying, collage-like effects. It’s an abstract, cubist painting, just like many others of Picasso’s work and the colours of this painting reflects African colours. Rather than using curves to draw the women he used triangles, which makes them out to be sharp, strong and quite aggressive, instead of elegant and beautiful. This is the kind of persona I would like to try and create for my Kit Kat Girl, she is still beautiful but certain aspects of her have to be strong and quite brutal to survive in the industry she has decided to pursue.
Having done some abstract painting style make up in class already at the beginning of the semester and really enjoying it, I thought this would be a fun and creative way to put a contemporary twist on a 1920's/ 1930's style look. Using lines to create shape to the face is different to anything I have created before, and to me really incorporates the kind of modern feel we are looking for within this project.
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