PabloPicasso-Les-Demoiselles-dAvignon-1907



In 1907 Picasso painted “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” his first Cubist painting. Impressed by African art, he tried to combine the angular structures of “primitive art” and his new ideas concerning cubism. Critics immediately said that this stage of his work and his time in Africa, considered being limited to the imitation of African ethnic art.

Picasso wrote: “In the Demoiselles d’Avignon I painted a profile nose into a frontal view of a face. I had to depict it sideways so that I could give it a name, so that I could call it ‘nose’. And so they started talking about Negro art. Have you ever seen a single African sculpture just one where a face mask has a profile nose in it?”.

Picasso’s new experiments were received very differently by his friends, some of which were very disappointed, even appalled, others were interested. A friend of Picasso, the artist Georges Braque (1882-1963), was so excited by Picasso’s new artworks, that the two artists came together to explore the possibilities of cubism in the following years. In 1908 the two began their experiments. Then they found that the pictures that were painted in cubist fashion were very much independent of each other.



Jackson Pollock “No. 5 1948”



Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) has been considered one of the more influential American painters during the “abstract expressionist” movement.

Abandoning the traditional painter’s easel and brush for canvases tacked to the floor of his studio, Pollack developed his technique of “drip” painting. His work came from the movement of his entire body versus the simple flicker of hand and wrist.

Pollock did not simply want his art “labeled” or perceived by what he was thinking while he created. So, he stopped naming his work and simply numbered them. He felt it made people look deeper into his work and see it for what it was – “pure painting”.

It is one of these numbered works of art that has fetched the title “most expensive painting ever sold”. Pollock’s “No. 5 1948” was sold by music-mogul, David Geffen of Geffen Records to David Martinez for a reported $140 million. Though this sum has not been confirmed by either party, it has not been denied.

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