Comparing And Contrasting Andy Warhol And Pablo Picasso

Two male designers, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, came from two different backgrounds in different eras. They formed innovative ideas that are still around today. Their main technique that has been adopted by present designers is their different printmaking skills. These two outstanding designers in the art and design industry will be compared and contrasted between their years of growing up, each of the techniques that made them so significant and stand out from the rest of the designers during their time, and a few of their well-known pieces.

To begin, knowing where each designer came from is important to fully understand where they developed their skills and technique. Picasso, figure 1, was born in the town Andalusia, Spain, in the year of 1881 and lived for 92 years, passing in the year 1973. He was a very innovative artist who experimented and innovated throughout his entire life and became a huge influencer on 20th-century art. Most people only master one form of art during their lifetime, but Picasso was given more gifts than others.

Picasso’s main focus were paintings, but he was also very talented at ceramics, sculptors, etching art, printmaking and writing. He started creating art at the age of thirteen when his father started giving his lessons. His father was a professor at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona and see how talented Picasso was so he had him take a test so that Picasso could take advanced classes at a young age. Picasso then transferred to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. He was very stubborn and did not want to follow the rules that were being taught in either of the schools, which resulted in him dropping out after three years at his second school.

Since then, his skills rapidly matured and developed in his own styles. Paris, France was the location Picasso lived for most of his lifetime, which is where is he was greatly influenced. There were six different periods he when through, beginning with the “Blue Period”, “Rose Period”, “African Influence”, “Analytical Cubism”, “Synthetic Cubism”, and the “Neoclassicism and Surrealism”. Each stage began to influence the Modern art movement more.

Andy Warhol figure 2 was a well-known artist from a different time and culture. He was born in August of 1928, in Pennsylvania. Like Picasso, Warhol grew up as a Catholic, but then later in their lives, unfortunately they both converted to atheists. Throughout Warhol’s, life he had many health issues which caused him to have a lot of down time and stay in bed. Since Warhol was on bedrest for large periods of times, he was able to fill his unbusy day by taking drawing lessons. Both artists were taught by one of their parents when they were young. Picasso had his father teach him when he was thirteen years old, and Warhol’s mother taught him at the age of eight by his mother. They had very talented teachers that were able to shape them into the artists they had become.

In Warhol’s teenage years, hel enrolled at Schenley High School. After graduating in 1945, he studied Commercial Art at the Carnegie Institute for Technology. He received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Pictorial Design in 1949.

Warhol was influence

Next, the similar techniques that Picasso and Warhol used. Picasso’s art reflected all the swirling in Spain, and he painted over 50,000 pieces. Most of them were small works. The attention to detail is what Picasso is well known for, and he took his time with his renowned paintings. Although this has given Picasso comparatively few large works for an artist of over 70 years, the art he has created has given the world a whole new perspective and understanding of what art can be. Picasso once said, “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ” (Cite). This was a major influence for the 20th century because it gave them to create anything they could possibly think of. He was the innovator of cubism carried in through his career.

Warhol enjoyed spending his time with the glamorous days, and he was likewise liked. With his art, Warhol’s inspiration came from everyday objects all around us, and then he turned them into something incredible that was known as Modern Art that is still very well-known and recognizable.

Picasso warped a portrait to use mismatching shapes, which somehow came together in perfectly. Warhol took a different approach by either taking a preexisting portrait and adding color and vivacity, or by taking a portrait we all know and then taking his brush to the paper.

Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso were very different people between their styles and techniques, but something they had in common was creating their art to have flatness. For example, in (figures 3-4) Pablo Picasso, Bowl and Jug, 1908, has a little bit of depth in the shadows with very little blending with harsh lines, creating a sense of flatness. Andy Warhol’s screen prints, Campbell Soup Cans, 1962, has an extreme flatness to it. Although Andy Warhol us.

Finally, the influences that Picasso and Warhol used will be compared.

Picasso and Warhol have many differences, yet still have influenced many designers today in similar ways. They grew up in different time periods and cultures and developed their own unique styles that inspired many artists and designers today. Both men were known for being originators, their portraits, prints, and in their own visions.

Bibliography

McCully, Marilyn, ed. “Pablo Picasso. ” Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2019. https://www. britannica. com/biography/Pablo-Picasso/Blue-Period.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, ed. “Andy Warhol. ” Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2019. https://www. britannica. com/biography/Andy-Warhol.

Voorhies, James. “Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). ” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www. metmuseum. org/toah/hd/pica/hd_pica. htm (October 2004)