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Picasso and Pollock

            Picasso (Pablo Ruiz) born in Ma` laga Spain October 25, 1881 he was a Spanish painter. This Spanish painter was born to Jose Ruiz and Maria Picasso Lopez. He was their third child. 99 His father was also a painter and an art teacher. Pablo Picasso was very talented and sent to a fine arts school at the age of 14. When he was 16 one of his paintings named Science and charity received a special award at a national exhibition held in Madrid. He continued to further his talent in other art academies. Now out on his own he moved in with his friend Carlos Casagemas and painted. He was happy but poor. He moved to Paris after his friend Carlos Casagemas died. His artwork at this time changed at this time the colors he chose to paint with, he started color scheming his colors and was painting with his emotions. Then Picasso went through a time that he painted with a lot of blue. .
             This time was referred to his "blue period " He was still very poor at this time. His first exhibition was held at Els Quatre Gats in 1900. In 1906 back in Paris Picasso took interest in non-European and primitace Art. He started to study African art and then started to paint distorted human shapes. In 1907 went through a discovery stage of Cubism which is breaking up composition into geometric shapes to show the subject from more than one angle at time. Picasso went through many more changes throughout his life with his personal life as well as his art. He died April 8, 1973 in France. He was very well renowned artist even to this day. .
             Jackson Pollock was born on January 28, 1912 in Cody Wyoming. He was the fifth and last child born to Stella May McClure and Leroy Pollock. They moved to San Diego California and lived very poor in California and Arizona throughout his childhood. He was raised very anti-religious but they followed guidelines of the Presbyterian Church. He got artistic abilities from his mom. All of Stella May McClure`s five sons were interested in the arts.


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... learned about this semester had a very unique view of the world. The two artists I enjoyed the most were Monet and Leonardo da Vinci. I have always had a fascination towards their spellbinding work. The two artists that I never understood before this class was Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock. They both have a completely different understanding with their canvas than I have ever seen before. * When I looked ... at one of Pollock's works all I saw were ink blots; I found it very confusing. Picasso's work I have always found interesting, but never understood the concept of his paintings. ...

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2. A 20th Century artist: Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)

... on government art projects in the late 1930s. From 1935 to 1942 he worked on WPA Federal Art Project. During this time Pollock was invited to participate in a group exhibition of work by French and American painters, including Picasso, Braque, Matisse and other established masters. Among the practically unknown Americans in the group was Lenore Krassner, later known as Lee Krasner. Lee was ... greatly impressed by the work she saw in Pollock's studio and thought he had extraordinary talent. They became good friends and married in 1945. Pollock's work had come to the attention ... of not...

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3. Enigmatic Combat and Guardians of the Secret

... and Jackson Pollock's "Guardians of the Secret" are similar in only a few ways, yet the ways each artist decided to portray their scene through abstraction is worthy of comparison. "Enigmatic Combat" was created by Arshile Gorky between 1936 and 1937. The media used for this piece is oil on canvas. Her piece is presented on a yellow wall along with a Picasso and ... Braque. Gorky uses very rough brush stokes and mostly solid colors without values or shading. Where she did decide to mix the colors they are only partially ... appears to be a green profile of a human head (this head looks ...

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6. Pollock-Biopic

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7. Jackson Pollock

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9. Finding the Beauty in and Accident

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