Summary: This article talks about how the artist Pablo Picasso with his friend Georges Braque invented the art type cubism and how the art was such a big failure that it was such a success. In his art he painted guitars within most of his paintings. He liked to paint guitars because it had the curve and the straight lines that he had put in to his painting. The curve is from the curves of the body of the Spanish guitar and the straight lines are from the strings of the guitar. He also like to paint guitars because the instrument is played very close to the person and on his painting that was the idea of mixing two in to one.
Analysis: The example of this article is the mixture of two worlds. Picasso was a painter that loved to paint the guitar in his paintings. It's what separated him from the other painter that painted cubism. Cubism is a type of painting that has the massage of music, architecture, and literature. The mixture of the guitar world and the painting world. Two very artistic worlds but different in many ways.
Reflection question: How do the two worlds differ?
Citations: Gopnik, B. (2011, Febuary 28). Pablo picasso, guitar hero. Newsweek, Retrieved from http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SFL2086-0-4692&artno=0000312110&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=guitar&title=Pablo Picasso, Guitar Hero&res=N&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=Y&ic=N
wow, this is very interesting. I never knew that great artists like Picasso were interested in Guitars. Guitars are huge in the modern world and have been big for a while, but it comes to me as a surprise too see this great artist having an interest in the instrument.
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