Picassoover毕加索.ppt

Introduction Pablo Picasso(1881-1973), Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman, designer, and ceramicist who spent most of his career in France. He was the most famous and prolific artist of the 20th century and exercised enormous influence on his contemporaries. Boy with a Pipe拿着烟斗的男孩 In 1905, at the age of 24, Pablo Picasso painted Boy with a Pipe soon after settling in France. It is an oil-on-canvas painting, which depicts a local boy who regularly visited Picassos Montmartre studio, holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland of flowers.Head In Head, a portrait of Marie-Therese Walter, his mistress of the period, Picasso uses multiple-view Cubist techniques. He depicts Walters cheeks and breasts fragmented, reshaped, and integrated into the geometric forms of Cubism. Guernica 格尔尼卡格尔尼卡This is his greatest Cubist painting which was painted in his 30s in Madrid in 1937.It has big influence. It shows Germany air force attack a small city called Guernica in Spain. Picasso was so angry that he finished the painting only in a few weeks. In this painting,Picasso showed his feelings about what had happened to the townNude in a rocking chair摇椅上的女士 Nude in a rocking chair, painted in 1956 at La Californie, the artists Belle-poque villa overlooking the Bay of Cannes. The glamorous light, the brash colour and the effervescent materialism that we associate with the French Riviera pervade the mood of this striking image. So too, does the sheer forthrightness of Picasso who, especially in his later years and with characteristic defiance, confronted his life and imaginings with undaunted energy and without concession.