What exactly did Picasso paint? Er, I mean, where exactly is what Picasso painted?

Question

Since I am very interested in art and somewhat well-read about art history, I have at least some idea of what I am supposed to see in Picasso's work, but I don't know exactly where it is...I see an eye here, one in the other corner, a square here, and a thick line there. I don't see a woman in his painting; I don't see a guitar in his work. Where are they?!

(Yes, I know his paintings are in the museum...hardy haw haw haw... I'm trying to find the subject of the painting in the painting.)

That's right! I'm a realist & very logical. Anything beyond impressionist (which I do like very much) gets fuzzy for me...and that means cubism!

Oh, yeah, I've seen some of his work before he got into this cubism stuff with George Braque, but I want to know where this stuff in his cubist work is.

Answer 1

he went through a lot of stages, but as far as cubism goes, think of it like this...
objects are three dimensional, right? and when you draw or paint an object, you make it two dimensional, so that you only see one side of the object, or one viewpoint. it's an effective illusion, but, in a sense, it's not realistic.
with cubism, artists often painted several sides of each object, such as a plate or bowl or guitar, in one picture. think of it as omniscence, or a camera panning around something. if you like to draw, you can try it out yourself.

Answer 2

When Picasso painted the first Cubist Paint (Mademoiselles d' Avignon) in that moment he didn't know he was initiating a new movement. What he tried to do was painting an object, from different perspectives at the same time. He would paint a face looking at it at the front, but at the same time he would paint how this same face look from the side and the back.He says once that when he was 8 he knew how to paint like the great masters, but he needed to be 80 to learn how to paint with the innocence of a child.

Answer 3

Actually, he has done a lot of classical or traditional work. He is one of the most diverse artists.. His cubism was his trademark, and that's why that's what you see most often. But if you ever get a chance to see a special presentation of his works at some major museum, you'll find a woman, in her natural entirety, and still life, and nature, etc... I don't know about a guitar. He also worked with various media. I think his largest permanent exhibit is in Barcelona. I fell in love with him a second time there.

Answer 4

Guernica Guernica: Testimony of War It is modern art's most powerful antiwar statement... created by the twentieth century's most well-known and least understood artist. But the mural called Guernica is not at all what Pablo Picasso has in mind when he agrees to paint the centerpiece for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 World's Fair.

Answer 5

The only part of the woman I see is her head. You really can't see a guitar? L'Accordéoniste is also a painting that looks like ground zero to me. Cubism to me is like Magic Eye without seeing the real image, hehe.

Answer 6

I am much the same as you I do not "see" what Picasso is painting but that's the reason he has done so well is that it is a little different for everyone I think of cartoons myself don't know why but it links my subconscious to childhood memories of cartoons and I feel good.

Answer 7

Cubism itself is art, so thats where it is... it might have been his feeling at the time, alot of artists express themselves with art... and the cubist tells alot to me, some tells me that he's having a heart attack, some tells me he is happy, some tells me that he's having an orgasm, and so on and so forth...

Answer 8

You must not have the same sense of art as Picasso if you don't see anything.I can't really say WHERE the pictures are...you just have to look...

Answer 9

It's all in his head. It was not meant for the common people to understand it.

Answer 10

It's intermixed in the cubes, man