Name: Demi Hamilton
Tutor name: Matt Moseley Group 3
Word count: 739
Choose one work by each of two different Modern artists. Describe each work and explain how and why they are modern. Discuss the content of the Images and how they are made.
In this essay I will be writing about two modern artists. I will be taking pieces from each artist work, describing and explain about the work and why and how the piece is modern. The first artist I picked was Pablo Picasso and his piece of work called “The Old Fisherman 1895”. The second artist I have chosen to write about is “Aubrey Beardsley” and his most famous piece of work called “The Peacock Skirt 1894”.
The two artists I have chosen both work in different ways and styles of modernism. I picked these two because I want to explain two very different piece of work based around modernism which weren’t very similar. Modernism is mainly about the industrialized world going on at that point of time.
My first artist I will be writing about will be Aubrey Beasley and his piece “The Peacocks Skirt”. This piece of work stands out by far as it’s very unusual.
The illustration is a black and white lined; it was created by using pen and ink in 1894. The illustration reminds me of the Japanese culture mainly because of the lines used in this piece of work. The illustration itself is based on a play called “Salome” which was written by someone called Oscar Wilde. In the illustration you can see the beautiful Salome trying to lure the Syrian captain with her beauty to free John the Baptist. On the right hand of the illustration you can see the Syrian captain; his long black hair is decorated with peacock feather on the top his also wearing a heavily embroidered piece of clothing on his back how ever the embroidery is mainly at the bottom of his piece of clothing. In the top right hand corner there is also a peacock pattern which looks like it has been manmade. This illustration is modern because it’s about a play which is showing different cultures to a selected audience, showing different cultures was not following the “traditional” ways of the arts. It’s also showing a life style only the richer people would be able to go to plays, this was the life style of the “rich”. The illustration was also created to show the arts in a different form then a play.
My second piece is Pablo Picasso piece called “The Old Fisherman” created in 1895 this painting is oil on canvas. The painting shows a fairy old man sitting down, however in this painting the old man isn’t looking straight ahead as if he was looking back on the person viewing the picture instead his head is slightly lowed down and his look to his right. When looking at this picture you can tell that there is more depth then what you are seeing. In this picture it isn’t following the “traditional” ways of art mainly because the rich would be the only ones that would have there portraits painted and you can tell this man isn’t rich at all, his is a working/lower class person. The title helps you understand that it’s a modern “The old fisherman” the way it has the old mans job title which shows you his a working class person I also think the colours that are used help to understand that the painting is modern as its very dull and dark colours which are used. The way the old man is dressed very scruffy like, unshaven and dirty skin. In this time skin was often dirty mainly because of the smog this also shows that the painting maybe modern.
Looking at both of the pieces of work you can tell that they are very different. Picasso’s piece was more showing the working class of people and how the look while Beardsley’s work is more for the higher class person as its based around a different type of art form. Picasso’s piece of work I found the hardest to describe and explain mainly because I think there is much more depth to the painting then what I am seeing.
Bibliography
Pablo Picasso’s “The old fisherman” http://www.nga.gov/images/noncol/fisherfs.htm
Aubrey Beardsley’s “The peacock’s skirt”
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/beardsley/3.jpg
Aubrey Beardsley’s “The peacock’s skirt”
Pablo Picasso’s “The old fisherman”
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