Final Project: Self Portrait in Three Styles of Art
3 Styles of Art
Realistic – Visually accurate
Abstract – Simplified, distorted, or altered
Non Objective – No recognizable object as an image
Realistic – Visually accurate
Abstract – Simplified, distorted, or altered
Non Objective – No recognizable object as an image
Part 2: Abstract
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Picasso is best known for pioneering Cubism in an attempt to reconcile three-dimensional space with the two-dimensional picture plane, once asking, “Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?”
Pablo Picasso created 'Bull' around the Christmas of 1945. 'Bull' is a suite of eleven lithographs that have become a masterclass in how to develop an artwork from the academic to the abstract.
Part 3: Nonobjective
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Theo van Doesburg
Acting on his mission to inform people of the tenets of De Stijl, van Doesburg abstracted the image of a grazing cow, beginning by creating figurative studies, and gradually changing the image until the cow became a carefully coordinated arrangement of colorful rectangles and squares. Van Doesburg used this composition, as well as his preliminary studies, in a treatise on De Stijl that he distributed for educational purposes. This painting is part of the artist's early foray into De Stijl, and demonstrates his passion for the burgeoning movement. This painting literally demonstrates the meaning of "abstracted" or "to abstract" in that it simplifies and reduces the thing depicted, transforming it into basic geometric structural components.
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